ALL meanings of sporting
sport·ing
S s - adjective sporting person, action: fair 1
- adjective sporting relating to sports 1
- adjective sporting person: sporty 1
- adjective sporting chance: reasonable, fair 1
- adjective sporting of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing. 1
- adjective sporting suitable for outdoor or informal wear: sport clothes. 1
- noun sporting 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. 1
- noun sporting a particular form of this, especially in the out of doors. 1
- noun sporting sports, (used with a singular verb) such athletic activities collectively: Sports is important in my life. 1
- noun sporting diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime. 1
- noun sporting jest; fun; mirth; pleasantry: What he said in sport was taken seriously. 1
- noun sporting mockery; ridicule; derision: They made sport of him. 1
- noun sporting an object of derision; laughingstock. 1
- noun sporting something treated lightly or tossed about like a plaything. 1
- noun sporting something or someone subject to the whims or vicissitudes of fate, circumstances, etc. 1
- noun sporting a sportsman. 1
- noun sporting Informal. a person who behaves in a sportsmanlike, fair, or admirable manner; an accommodating person: He was a sport and took his defeat well. 1
- noun sporting Informal. a person who is interested in sports as an occasion for gambling; gambler. 1
- noun sporting Informal. a flashy person; one who wears showy clothes, affects smart manners, pursues pleasurable pastimes, or the like; a bon vivant. 1
- noun sporting Biology. an organism or part that shows an unusual or singular deviation from the normal or parent type; mutation. 1
- noun sporting Obsolete. amorous dalliance. 1
- verb without object sporting to amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation. 1
- verb without object sporting to play, frolic, or gambol, as a child or an animal. 1
- verb without object sporting to engage in some open-air or athletic pastime or sport. 1
- verb without object sporting to trifle or treat lightly: to sport with another's emotions. 1
- verb without object sporting to mock, scoff, or tease: to sport at suburban life. 1
- verb without object sporting Botany. to mutate. 1
- verb with object sporting to pass (time) in amusement or sport. 1
- verb with object sporting to spend or squander lightly or recklessly (often followed by away). 1
- verb with object sporting Informal. to wear, display, carry, etc., especially with ostentation; show off: to sport a new mink coat. 1
- verb with object sporting Archaic. to amuse (especially oneself). 1
- idioms sporting sport one's oak. oak (def 5). 1
- adjective sporting Sporting means relating to sports or used for sports. 0
- adjective sporting of, relating to, or used or engaged in a sport or sports 0
- adjective sporting relating or conforming to sportsmanship; fair 0
- adjective sporting of, relating to, or characterized by an interest in gambling 0
- adjective sporting willing to take a risk 0
- adjective sporting of, having to do with, or for sports, or athletic games, etc. 0
- adjective sporting interested in or taking part in sports, or athletic games, etc. 0
- adjective sporting sportsmanlike; fair 0
- adjective sporting interested in or having to do with games, races, etc. characterized by gambling or betting 0
- adjective sporting inclined to mutate 0