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sporting

Syllabification: (sport·ing)
Pronunciation: /spôrtiNG/

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Definition of sporting

adjective

  • 1 [attributive] connected with or interested in sports:a major sporting event
  • 2fair and generous in one’s behavior or treatment of others, especially in a game or contest:it was not very sporting of Smith to hit Gonzales with that pitch

Derivatives

sportingly

adverb

sporting in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of sporting in the British & World English dictionary