sportingPronunciation: /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/Translate sporting | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of sporting adjective 1 [attributive] connected with or interested in sport:a major sporting event 2fair and generous in one’s behaviour or treatment of others, especially in a contest:it was jolly sporting of you to let me have first goDerivatives sportingly adverb sporting (sense 2).sporting in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of sporting in the US English dictionary