sporting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sporting	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for sporting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sporting adj exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" Synonym(s): clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment" involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood" 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" Synonym(s): dissipated, betting, card- playing, sporting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sporting}.] 1. To play; to frolic; to wanton. [Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. --Milton. 2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 3. To trifle. [bd]He sports with his own life.[b8] --Tillotson. 4. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) 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. Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sporting \Sport"ing\, a. Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. {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.