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Sporting - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Sporting : adj
1: marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a
clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the
disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean,
sportsmanlike]
2: relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting
equipment"
3: involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting
chance"; "sporting blood"
4: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially
games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man";
"a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool";
"sporting gents and their ladies" [syn: dissipated, betting,
card-playing, gambling]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sporting.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
[Fish],Sporting : with quick glance, Show to the sun
their waved coats dropt with gold. --Milton.
2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.'' --Tillotson.
4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) To assume suddenly a new and different
character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
See Sport, n., 6. --Darwin.
Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Sporting : \Sport"ing\, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Sporting |
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arsenality: England cricket team hung on for an unlikely draw, let's see if WHam can get an unlikely win to top off an excellent Sporting day |
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ant_memories: Goooal for Sporting!! Goooooal for Luis Morán!! |
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