adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to sports
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- He got a job in a sporting goods store.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sporting
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/ˈspoətɪŋ/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: S P AO1 R T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Exhibiting sportsmanship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable
Examples
- Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Fair, generous; game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparable
Examples
- It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The act of taking part in a sport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
present participle and gerund of sport
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
relating to or used in sports
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- sporting events
- sporting equipment
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
involving risk or willingness to take a risk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a sporting chance
- sporting blood
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a clean fight
- a sporting solution of the disagreement
- sportsmanlike conduct
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clean, sporty, sportsmanlike
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- led a dissipated life
- a betting man
- a card-playing son of a bitch
- a gambling fool
- sporting gents and their ladies
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissipated, betting, card-playing
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
By surface analysis, sport + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: спартыўны (spartywny) — pertaining to sports
- Bulgarian: спортен (sporten) — pertaining to sports
- Catalan: esportiu — pertaining to sports
- Czech: sportovní — pertaining to sports
- Dutch: sportief — pertaining to sports
- Finnish: urheilu- — pertaining to sports
- French: sportif — pertaining to sports
- Galician: deportivo — pertaining to sports
- German: sportiv — pertaining to sports
- Italian: sportivo — pertaining to sports
- Latvian: sportisks — pertaining to sports
- Norwegian Bokmål: idrettslig — pertaining to sports
- Polish: sportowy — pertaining to sports
- Portuguese: esportivo — pertaining to sports
- Portuguese: desportivo — pertaining to sports
- Russian: спорти́вный (sportívnyj) — pertaining to sports
- Spanish: deportivo — pertaining to sports
- Ukrainian: спорти́вний (sportývnyj) — pertaining to sports
- Bulgarian: спортсменски (sportsmenski) — exhibiting sportsmanship
- Dutch: sportief — exhibiting sportsmanship
- Finnish: urheilijamainen — exhibiting sportsmanship
- Finnish: reilu — exhibiting sportsmanship
Real reading context