Sekirov Dictionary

sporting

/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

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Pertaining to sports
- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
•
Exhibiting sportsmanship.
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
•
Fair, generous; game.
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
•
(euphemistic, no longer used) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
- New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets. — 2015

noun1

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The act of taking part in a sport.
- […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […] — 1675

forms

sportings · more sporting · most sporting

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