About The Word Sporting
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Sporting
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What's The Definition Of Sporting?
[adj] involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
[adj] marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [adj] preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies" [adj] relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sporting: adventuresome | adventurous | betting | card-playing | clean | dissipated | fair | gambling | indulgent | just | sportsmanlike Related Terms | Find terms related to Sporting: See Also | Sporting In Webster's Dictionary \Sport"ing\, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
{Sporting book}, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
{Sporting house}, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
{Sporting man}, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
{Sporting plant} (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin.
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