sporting

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   involving risk or willingness to take a risk

   a sporting chance

2. 2
   adj

   relating to or used in sports

   sporting events

3. 3
   adj

   Pertaining to sports

   He got a job in a sporting goods store.

4. 4
   adj

   Exhibiting sportsmanship.

   Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.

5. 5
   adj

   Fair, generous; game.

   It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

6. 6
   adj

   Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.

   New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.

7. 7
   noun

   The act of taking part in a sport.

   […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]

8. 8
   adj

   exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

Etymology

By surface analysis, sport + -ing.