/ ˈspɔːtɪŋ; NAmE ˈspɔːrtɪŋ/ adjective
1.
[ only before noun ] connected with sports :
a major sporting event
a range of sporting activities
His main sporting interests are golf and tennis.
( NAmE )
a store selling sporting goods
2.
( especially BrE ) fair and generous in your treatment of other people, especially in a game or sport
OPP for sense 2 unsporting
► sport·ing·ly adverb :
He sportingly agreed to play the point again.
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IDIOMS
- a sporting chance