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say it: SPAWR-ting
sporting is an adjective meaning "exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play". It carries 4 recorded senses.
exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
“a clean fight”
“a sporting solution of the disagreement”
“sportsmanlike conduct”
relating to or used in sports
“sporting events”
“sporting equipment”
involving risk or willingness to take a risk
“a sporting chance”
“sporting blood”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sporting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.