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sporting

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sport·ing  (spôrtng, spr-)
adj.
1. Used in or appropriate for sports: sporting goods.
2. Characterized by sportsmanship.
3. Of or associated with gambling.

sporting·ly adv.

sporting
Adjective
1. of sport
2. behaving in a fair and decent way
3. a sporting chance reasonable likelihood of happening: a sporting chance of winning
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.sporting - exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
fair, just - free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
2.sporting - relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"
3.sporting - involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
adventuresome, adventurous - willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
4.sporting - preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"
indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents"

sporting
adjective fair, sportsmanlike, game (informal) gentlemanly << OPPOSITE unfair
Translations
sporting [ˈspɔːtɪŋ] adjdeportivo;
to give sb a sporting chance → darle a algn su oportunidad
sporting [ˈspɔːtɪŋ] adjsportif/ive;
to give sb a sporting chance → donner sa chance à qn
sporting [ˈspɔːtɪŋ] sport adj (event etc) → Sport-;
(generous) → großzügig;
to give sb a sporting chance sport → jdm eine faire Chance geben
sporting [ˈspɔːtɪŋ] adjsportivo/a;
to give sb a sporting chance → dare a qn una possibilità (di vincere)


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277 D: The poet of the "War of the Titans", whether Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus, writes thus in his second book: `Upon the shield were dumb fish afloat, with golden faces, swimming and sporting through the heavenly water.
The brown walls were hung with a choice selection of sporting prints, varied here and there with silverpoint etchings of beautiful women in various poses.
Finally, when the cabman, all top-heavy and bristling, had staggered off up the garden path, there emerged in a very leisurely way from the cab a big, powerfully built young man, with a bull pup under one arm and a pink sporting paper in his hand.
 
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