sporting

By surface analysis, sport +‎ -ing.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈspɔːtɪŋ/

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈspo(ː)ɹtɪŋ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈspoətɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪŋ

sporting

1. present participle and gerund of sport

sporting (comparative more sporting, superlative most sporting)

1. (not comparable) Pertaining to sports

   He got a job in a sporting goods store.

2. (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.

   Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.

3. (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.

   It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

4. (not comparable, obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
   • 2015, Michael Pierson, “Stephen Spaulding's Fourth of July in New Orleans”, in Slap, Andrew L., Towers, Frank, editors, Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era‎^[1], University of Chicago Press, page 137:

     New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.

• sporting chance
• sporting clays
• sporting door
• sporting girl
• sporting goods
• sporting house
• sporting lady
• sportingly
• sportingness
• sporting woman

sporting (plural sportings)

1. The act of taking part in a sport.
   • c. 1675, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:

     […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]

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