sporting goods

1. 1.

   sports equipment sold as a commodity

   Broadersports equipmentcommodity

   plural

Questions about sporting goods

What does sporting goods mean?

sporting goods means "sports equipment sold as a commodity".

Is sporting goods a common word?

sporting goods 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.