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SPORTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving risk or willingness to take a risk
Example:
sporting blood
Classified under:
Similar:
adventuresome; adventurous (willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
Example:
sportsmanlike conduct
Synonyms:
clean; sporting; sportsmanlike; sporty
Classified under:
Similar:
fair; just (free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Example:
sporting gents and their ladies
Synonyms:
betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Relating to or used in sports
Example:
sporting equipment
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sport
Context examples:
“By the way, Tregellis,” said Fox, “there’s some rumour about your having a sporting bet with Sir Lothian Hume. What’s the truth of it?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It appears you will go to an important party, charity, or club gathering, or even a gala sporting event that you and your friends are looking forward to attending.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden Place to Westgate Buildings.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The high object of our mission, the consciousness that it was unselfish and chivalrous, the villainous character of our opponent, all added to the sporting interest of the adventure.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And all the time this quiet country house of yours is the centre of half the mischief in England, and the sporting squire the most astute secret-service man in Europe.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a man of excellent birth and education, who had squandered a fortune upon the turf, and who lived now by doing a little quiet and genteel book-making in the sporting clubs of London.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her indignation would have been still stronger than it was, had she not witnessed that embarrassment which seemed to speak a consciousness of his own misconduct, and prevented her from believing him so unprincipled as to have been sporting with the affections of her sister from the first, without any design that would bear investigation.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The Waggon and Horses was a well-known sporting house, with an old prize-fighter for landlord.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With planets in Capricorn, if you are single, I feel you won’t meet through a dating app—Capricorn promotes traditional values, so it is more likely that that you would meet at a party, club event, or another gathering, such as at an elegant sporting event, museum or art opening, or an exclusive industry conference or seminar.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In spite of his capacity for concealing his emotions, I could easily see that Holmes was in a state of suppressed excitement, while I was myself tingling with that half-sporting, half-intellectual pleasure which I invariably experienced when I associated myself with him in his investigations.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
