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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sporting
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sporting chance (=a fairly good chance)
▪ The proposals had at least a sporting chance of being accepted.
a sporting event
▪ Many of the weekend’s major sporting events were cancelled due to bad weather.
a sporting hero (=someone who people admire in a sport)
▪ Tiger Woods was his sporting hero.
a sporting/sports competition
▪ There is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
a teaching/acting/sporting career
▪ Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
golfing/sporting/racing etc calendar
▪ The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
sporting/camping/skiing etc equipment
▪ Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
sporting/conference/concert etc venue
sports/sporting facilities
▪ Have you checked out the local sports facilities?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Need a partner to share your sporting activities?
▪ Any sporting activity within the Centre.
▪ This hall caters for many sporting activities and social events.
▪ The group organises monthly social and sporting activities, including cycle sessions, and has bought nine tandems through sponsorship and fundraising.
▪ Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.
▪ I am an obsessive, addicted, manic observer of all forms of sporting activity.
▪ Of all the sporting activities available during the afternoon, one pleasure is walking through alpine meadows.
▪ Sponsorship is important for such sporting activities as: golf, football, cricket and motor racing.
event
▪ Insular Is it because they seem to package their major sporting events in a more professional manner?
▪ In these nations, the countryside is increasingly being exploited as a source of recreation and as a venue for sporting events.
▪ However, some minor sporting events, television schedules, crosswords and horoscopes have been omitted.
▪ The Brighton Centre is a major venue for rock shows, concerts, ice spectaculars and sporting events.
▪ The most important local sporting event of the entire calendar.
▪ These authors see the spectating of sporting events as functional for society.
▪ Cooks organized travel included excursions to important sporting events.
▪ For further information on staging sporting events contact the National Indoor Arena on 021-.
facility
▪ Aims: to help both the physically and mentally handicapped, by both providing and contributing towards sporting facilities.
▪ There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre.
life
▪ This practical ineptitude filtered through to my sporting life by way of golf.
▪ If, like me, you prefer the sporting life, then you are spoilt for choice here.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sporting sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sporting event
▪ Sponsorship is important for sporting activities such as golf, football, cricket and motor-racing.
▪ the sporting life
▪ The hotel has four restaurants, a bar and a disco, as well as an impressive range of sporting facilities.
▪ The Italian Grand Prix is one of the great sporting events of the year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Edinburgh is one of the most active and successful sporting universities in Britain and offers an unrivalled choice of sports and activities.
▪ I waited, alert for a young man in sporting dress, but by midnight neither of them had reappeared.
▪ Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.
▪ Sadly, the sporting sportsman is becoming rarer these days.
▪ Sutherland has a great sporting tradition.
▪ The walls of the room were hung with sporting prints and photographs of men and women in riding garb.
▪ These are issues from which the sporting public is excluded other than in a weekly letters column.
▪ They organize social and sporting events, weekends away and holiday trips.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sporting

Sporting \Sport"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; 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.

Sporting

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sporting

c.1600, "playful;" 1799 as "characterized by conduct constant with that of a sportsman" (as in sporting chance, 1897), present participle adjective from sport (v.).

Wiktionary
sporting
  1. 1 (context not comparable English) Pertaining to sports 2 (context comparable English) Exhibiting sportsmanship. 3 (context comparable English) Having a reasonable chance of success. 4 (context comparable English) Fair, generous; ‘game’. n. The act of taking part in a sport. v

  2. (present participle of sport English)

WordNet
sporting
  1. adj. 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]

Wikipedia
Sporting

Sporting may refer to:

  • Sport, recreational games and play.

It may also refer to a sporting club:

  • Sporting Clube de Portugal, a sports club from Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Sporting Alexandria, a sports club from Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut, a sports club from Beirut, Lebanon.
  • A.O. Sporting BC Athens, Greek professional basketball team ( Athens).
  • Sporting Cristal, a football club from Lima, Peru.
  • Sporting Clube da Covilhã, a sports club from Covilhã, Portugal.
  • Sporting Clube de Braga, a sports club from Braga, Portugal.
  • Real Sporting de Gijón, a football club from Gijón, Spain.
  • Sporting Charleroi, a football club from Charleroi, Belgium.
  • Sporting Clube de Goa, a sports club from Goa, India.
  • Sporting Kansas City, a soccer (football) club from Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

The term sporting was formerly used as a euphemism (during the 19th and early 20th centuries) to refer to

  • Red-light districts
  • Prostitution
  • Gambling

Usage examples of "sporting".

With Echo every sporting character was better known than his college tutor, and not a few kept an eye upon the boy, with hopes, no doubt, of hereafter benefiting by his inexperience, when, having got the whip-hand of his juvenile restrictions, he starts forth to the world a man of fashion and consequence, with an unencumbered property of fifteen thousand per annum, besides expectancies.

An artsy sax player sporting a little silver goatee squeezed his eyes shut in ecstasy, leaning into his spotlight serenade.

Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.

Wearing a silver wig but topless and muscular and sporting a Vandyke beard so bright Bonny sees purple-afterimage trails when he shakes his head.

This one was sporting a soft, brimless cap of bright red and blue squares, worn at a rakish angle.

The proprietor of the borough, a good humoured sporting extravagant, has been compelled to yield his influence in St.

It was, Prew often thought, as if The Warden had applied to his whole life the principle which applied to all other games of sport - that laying down of certain arbitrary rules to make success that much harder for the player to attain, like clipping in football or travelling in basketball, or in the same way, he had read someplace, that sporting fishermen would use the light six-nine tackle in fishing for sailfish instead of the heavy tackle that makes it easy for the novice, thereby imposing upon themselves voluntarily the harder conditions that made the reward 3J4 worth more to them.

Further away, two of them faced a flickering telescreen, watching some faraway sporting competition.

And terrorless as this serenest night: Here could I hope, like some inquiring child Sporting on graves, that death did hide from human sight Sweet secrets, or beside its breathless sleep That loveliest dreams perpetual watch did keep.

There lay his trombone, gleaming like a horn of gold, still sporting that wisp of whisker at the nethermost curve of its slide.

A black woman sporting an over-funded afro was administering to some of the victims of the quake.

Henry, the old rooster, was now sporting a bandanna around his neck and from the shape of the stick the little boy held in his hand, Althea speculated that the old bird had just robbed a train or busted into a bank.

Henderson showed him the galley, a drab utilitarian place sporting little more than a mahogany bartree and standard-issue chairbeasts.

The British already had their agents in the bases who, amongst other things, could observe the sporting activities of the flotillas, and from that the enemy could deduce which boats were still at base and which at the front.

One or two pleasant pieces of china and a vast amount of worthless material, an ancient boneshaker and a miscellaneous collection of swords and early sporting guns were heaped upon one another with the profusion of a second-hand shop.