What is "sporting" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does sporting mean in English? Meaning of sporting definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "sporting" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "sporting": exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

Adjective

  • Meaning: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
  • Example: a clean fight a sporting solution of the disagreement sportsmanlike conduct
  • Synonyms: clean sporting sportsmanlike sporty
  • Similar: fair just
  • Meaning of "sporting": relating to or used in sports

    Adjective

  • Meaning: relating to or used in sports
  • Example: sporting events sporting equipment
  • Synonyms: sporting
  • Meaning of "sporting": involving risk or willingness to take a risk

    Adjective

  • Meaning: involving risk or willingness to take a risk
  • Example: a sporting chance sporting blood
  • Synonyms: sporting
  • Similar: adventuresome adventurous
  • Meaning of "sporting": preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

    Adjective

  • Meaning: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
  • Example: led a dissipated life a betting man a card-playing son of a bitch a gambling fool sporting gents and their ladies
  • Synonyms: betting card-playing dissipated sporting
  • Similar: indulgent
  • Adjective: Present participle of sport.
  • Synonyms:

    game, square, antic, fair, rollicking, considerate, devil-may-care, frisky, frolicsome, gay, generous, gentlemanly, impish, jaunty, joyous, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, sportive, sprightly, waggish, wild, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, coltish, gamesome, larkish, square dealing, square shooting, straight shooting,

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    sporting in English: sporting
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