sporting
Pertaining to sports
Example
“He got a job in a sporting goods store.”
Other meanings
Exhibiting sportsmanship.
“Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.”
Fair, generous; game.
“It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.”
Synonyms
- clean
Related words
- nonsporting
- unsporting
- sporting chance
- sporting clays
- sporting door
- sporting girl
- sporting goods
- sporting house
- sporting lady
- sportingly
- sportingness
- sporting woman
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sporting” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.