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Definitions for Sporting

[1] engaging in, disposed to, or interested in open-air or athletic sports: a rugged, sporting man.
[2] concerned with or suitable for such sports: sporting equipment.
[3] sportsmanlike.
[4] interested in or connected with sports or pursuits involving betting or gambling: the sporting life of Las Vegas.
[5] involving or inducing the taking of risk, as in a sport.
[6] 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.
[7] a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors.
[8] sports, (used with a singular verb ) such athletic activities collectively: Sports is important in my life.
[9] diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.
[10] jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously.
[11] mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him.
[12] an object of derision; laughingstock.
[13] something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything.
[14] something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc.
[15] a sportsman.
[16] Informal . a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well.
[17] Informal . a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler.
[18] Informal . a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant.
[19] Biology . an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation.
[20] Obsolete . amorous dalliance.
[21] of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport:sport fishing.
[22] suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes.
[23] to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation.
[24] to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal.
[25] to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport.
[26] to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions.
[27] to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life.
[28] Botany . to mutate.
[29] to pass (time) in amusement or sport.
[30] to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away ).
[31] Informal . to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat.
[32] Archaic . to amuse (especially oneself).
[33] (prenominal) of, relating to, or used or engaged in a sport or sports several sporting interests
[34] relating or conforming to sportsmanship; fair
[35] of, relating to, or characterized by an interest in gambling
[36] willing to take a risk
[37] an individual or group activity pursued for exercise or pleasure, often involving the testing of physical capabilities and taking the form of a competitive game such as football, tennis, etc
[38] such activities considered collectively
[39] any particular pastime indulged in for pleasure
[40] the pleasure derived from a pastime, esp hunting, shooting, or fishing we had good sport today
[41] playful or good-humoured joking to say a thing in sport
[42] derisive mockery or the object of such mockery to make sport of someone
[43] someone or something that is controlled by external influences the sport of fate
[44] informal (sometimes qualified by good, bad, etc ) a person who reacts cheerfully in the face of adversity, esp a good loser
[45] informal a person noted for being scrupulously fair and abiding by the rules of a game
[46] informal a person who leads a merry existence, esp a gambler he's a bit of a sport
[47] Australian and NZ informal a form of address used esp between males
[48] biology an animal or plant that differs conspicuously in one or more aspects from other organisms of the same species, usually because of a mutation an anomalous characteristic of such an organism
[49] (tr) informal to wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner she was sporting a new hat
[50] (intr) to skip about or frolic happily
[51] to amuse (oneself), esp in outdoor physical recreation
[52] (intr often foll by with ) to dally or trifle (with)
[53] (tr often foll by away ) rare to squander (time or money) sporting one's life away
[54] (intr often foll by with ) archaic to make fun (of)
[55] (intr) biology to produce or undergo a mutation

Words related to Sporting

game, square, antic, fair, rollicking, considerate, devil-may-care, frisky, frolicsome, gay, generous, gentlemanly, impish, jaunty, joyous, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable

Words nearby Sporting

sport utility vehicle, sport-utility vehicle, sporter, sportfisherman, sportfishing, sporting, sporting blood, sporting chance, sporting chance, a, sporting dog, sporting house

Origin of Sporting

1350–1400; Middle English; aphetic variant of disport

Other words from Sporting

sport·ing·ly , adverb
non·sport·ing , adjective
non·sport·ing·ly , adverb
un·sport·ing , adjective
sport·ful , adjective
sport·ful·ly , adverb
sport·ful·ness , noun
sport·less , adjective
out·sport , verb (used with object)
un·sport·ed , adjective
un·sport·ful , adjective

Word origin for Sporting

C15 sporten, variant of disporten to disport

Synonyms for Sporting

antic, fair, game, rollicking, square, coltish, considerate, devil-may-care, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, generous, gentlemanly, impish, jaunty, joyous, kittenish, larkish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, sportive, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, sprightly, square dealing, square shooting, straight shooting, waggish, wild