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UK
/spˈɔːtɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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involving risk or willingness to take a risk
sporting blood
a sporting chance -
exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
sportsmanlike conduct
a clean fight
a sporting solution of the disagreement -
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
a betting man
a gambling fool
sporting gents and their ladies
led a dissipated life
a card-playing son of a bitch -
relating to or used in sports
sporting events
sporting equipment
How To Use sporting In A Sentence
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- Still, we managed to beat Italy in the first of a sporting double-header in which our footballers will shortly travel to Italy for a World Cup qualifier.
- All four men continue to deny any wrongdoing under the criminal and sporting proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
- The new Combi can be used either as a passenger plane, or for transporting freight.
- He was one of the first 19th century sailors who tamed the seas through science, inventing systems for transporting cannon over marshy ground, ciphers for code and a system of hydrographical surveys.
- Bromley's sporting talent is to be rewarded in the Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements.
- This is a fantastically good-looking car in the metal, especially when painted in the lurid shade of orange this model is sporting. Times, Sunday Times
- I spotted a cleaner sporting a plastic bib with the words Tourist Attractions emblazoned across it.
- The red blood cell is finally a small bag containing haemoglobin molecules for transporting oxygen.
- In an interview last week, Ms. Pak, sporting a button featuring the mustachioed interim mayor's face, spoke passionately about her Chinatown neighborhood and her efforts to persuade Mr. Lee to "serve his city. Chinatown Political Veteran Champions Her Candidate
