Sporting
['spɔːtɪŋ] or ['spɔrtɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) involving risk or willingness to take a risk; 'a sporting chance'; 'sporting blood' .
(adj.) relating to or used in sports; 'sporting events'; 'sporting equipment' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sport
(a.) Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
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Examples
- Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hey, jolly shepherd, come not a-courting, Join will I not in such silly, silly sporting, With a fa-la-la-la, jolly shepherd. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Some of his clothes, papers, handkerchiefs, whips and caps, fishing-rods and sporting gear, were still there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, Pitt, are you a sporting man? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I think I would risk a little sporting flutter that you don't go there at all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was somewhat offended--yet sporting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He discovered Trenor, in his day clothes, sitting, with a tall glass at his elbow, behind the folds of a sporting journal. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Between ourselves, Watson, it's a sporting duel between this fellow Milverton and me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hey, pretty maiden, I come a-courting, Join me, I pray, in such merry, merry sporting, With a fa-la-la-la, pretty maiden. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Seems to me, Dolph, he added, laying his finger on the elegant figured satin vest that Adolph was sporting, seems to me that's _my_ veSt. O! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So would I,' added the sporting one solemnly. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He cannot write a note without orthographical errors; he reads only a sporting paper; he was the booby of Stilbro' grammar school! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sporting guns have kept pace with other small arms in improvements, and among modern forms are those which discharge in alternative succession the two barrels by a single trigger. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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