sporting dog

Questions about sporting dog

What does sporting dog mean?

sporting dog means "a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns".

What is another word for sporting dog?

Close synonyms include gun dog. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sporting dog a common word?

sporting dog is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.