Definitions for sporting

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sporting sport·ing

Spelling: [spawr-ting, spohr-]

IPA: /ˈspɔr tɪŋ, ˈspoʊr-/

Sporting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 366 anagrams from letters in sporting (ginoprst).

Definitions for sporting

noun

1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
3. sports, (used with a singular verb) such athletic activities collectively:
4. diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
5. jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry:
6. mockery; ridicule; derision:
7. an object of derision; laughingstock.
8. something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
9. something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
10. a sportsman.
11. Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person:
12. Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
13. Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
14. Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
15. Obsolete. amorous dalliance.

Idioms

1. sport one's oak. oak (def 5).

adjective

1. engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports:
2. concerned with or suitable for such sports:
3. sportsmanlike.
4. interested in or connected with sports or pursuits involving betting or gambling:
5. involving or inducing the taking of risk, as in a sport.
6. of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:
7. suitable for outdoor or informal wear:

verb (used with object)

1. to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
2. to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away).
3. Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off:
4. Archaic. to amuse (especially oneself).

verb (used without object)

1. to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
2. to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
3. to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
4. to trifle or treat lightly:
5. to mock, scoff, or tease:
6. Botany. to mutate.

Origin of sporting

First recorded in 1590-1600; sport + -ing²

Examples for sporting

But, then, there are times when the sporting instinct sways all else.

There is nothing else at the court but dancing and sporting.'

Being dapper is all about attention to detail, like sporting a perfectly tucked handkerchief in your suit pocket.

There are two breeds of sporting dogs: the Castorian and the fox-like.

Bundy asks Bakari, who is off to his right, sporting all black everything.

Brash, crass, and sporting a perpetually raised eyebrow, Ash Williams remains the ultimate postmodern superhero.

If it were made what he called a “sporting proposition” he might consider it.

Just ask Darren Sharper what happens if your sporting career suddenly falters.

We often hear this attributed admiringly to "the sporting instinct."

In their midst stands a soldier with the Lebanese armed forces in a red beret, sporting an assault rifle and an unblinking stare.