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sporting Definition

sport·ing (spôrt)

adjective

  1. of, having to do with, or for sports, or athletic games, etc.
  2. interested in or taking part in sports, or athletic games, etc.
  3. sportsmanlike; fair
  4. ☆ interested in or having to do with games, races, etc. characterized by gambling or betting
  5. Biol. inclined to mutate

sporting Related Forms
sport·ingly adverb
sporting Synonyms

sporting

modif.

  1. Interested in sport

    gaming, showy, flashy; see jaunty.

  2. Fair or more than fair

    considerate, sportsmanlike, gentlemanly; see generous 1, reasonable 2.

sporting Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • organize: The Society is extremely active and organizes many social, sporting and charity events throughout the year.
  • provide: Provides unlucky sporting especially surprising to we think that.
  • include: His main area of work is the buying, selling and managing of agricultural and rural land and property including sporting and mineral interests.
  • cover: However, this policy does not cover sporting or dangerous activities, for which you are advised to seek additional cover.
  • offer: Leeds University is one of the biggest university campuses and consequently offers excellent sporting, entertainment, and cultural facilities.

Adjective modifier

  • recreational: The Myreside Club exists to promote recreational, sporting and social activities among its membership, which includes former pupils, parents and staff.
  • artistic: We want to nourish their artistic, scientific, sporting and other abilities.
  • cultural: So far, representatives from the business, cultural sporting and youth and community sectors have all partaken in events in Gilbert and Newtownabbey.
  • charitable: The term charity operator shall be defined as an organization of a charitable, social, sporting, religious or political nature.
  • academic: The broad educational experience provided by the College enables each girl to develop her talents, be they academic, sporting or creative.
  • educational: Cover is worldwide and extends to include the educational, administrative, sporting and social activities of the University, including ownership of property.

Modifies a noun

  • hero: What better place to start than with local sporting heroes?
  • prowess: Find out more about our sporting prowess: Some Prince's Trust Teams are based at County Cricket Clubs.
  • event: All relevant sporting events are shown on the big screen TV.
  • calendar: It was Saturday, April 27, 1946, a golden day in the nation's sporting calendar.
  • arena: And as they say in the sporting arena, " let the lawsuit games begin.
  • fixture: Many activities were subsidized, and travel to sporting fixtures was free.

Noun used with modifier

  • summer: She is also well-known for her pictures of children on the beach and summer sporting events such as Ascot and Henley.
  • quality: It's simply a case of whether you like high quality sporting games.
  • world: Sports Geography: the Athens Games is a fine example of how geography can showcase itself in the context of world sporting events.
sporting Quotes

There are compensations for growing older.One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

—Skinner, Cornelia Otis

Those trains will run over their tails, if they can, Snorting and sporting like porpoises. Flee The burly, the whirligig wheels of the train, As round as the world and as large again.

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa