sporting

Adjective
Synonyms: cleansportysportsmanlikedissipatedbettingcard-playing

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (4)

  1. exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play“a clean fight”“a sporting solution of the disagreement”“sportsmanlike conduct”Synonyms: cleansportysportsmanlike
  2. relating to or used in sports“sporting events”“sporting equipment”
  3. involving risk or willingness to take a risk“a sporting chance”“sporting blood”
  4. 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”Synonyms: dissipatedbettingcard-playing
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sporting \Sport"ing\, a. Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. [1913 Webster]

Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.

Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like.

Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.

Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]

Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n. Sporting.]

1.To play; to frolic; to wanton. [1913 Webster]

[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. [1913 Webster]

3.To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]

4.(Bot. & Zool.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton. [1913 Webster]

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