adjective
exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
Synonyms
Examples
- a clean fight
- a sporting solution of the disagreement
- sportsmanlike conduct
adjective
relating to or used in sports
Examples
- sporting events
- sporting equipment
adjective
involving risk or willingness to take a risk
Examples
- a sporting chance
- sporting blood
adjective
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Synonyms
Examples
- led a dissipated life
- a betting man
- a card-playing son of a bitch
- a gambling fool
- sporting gents and their ladies
verb
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
Synonyms
Examples
- she was sporting a new hat
verb
play boisterously
Synonyms
Examples
- The children frolicked in the garden
- the gamboling lambs in the meadows
- The toddlers romped in the playroom