adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sporting chance (= a fairly good chance )
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The proposals had at least a sporting chance of being accepted.
a sporting event
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Many of the weekend’s major sporting events were cancelled due to bad weather.
a sporting hero (= someone who people admire in a sport )
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Tiger Woods was his sporting hero.
a sporting/sports competition
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There is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
a teaching/acting/sporting career
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Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
golfing/sporting/racing etc calendar
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The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
sporting/camping/skiing etc equipment
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Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
sporting/conference/concert etc venue
sports/sporting facilities
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Have you checked out the local sports facilities?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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activity
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Need a partner to share your sporting activities ?
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Any sporting activity within the Centre.
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This hall caters for many sporting activities and social events.
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The group organises monthly social and sporting activities , including cycle sessions, and has bought nine tandems through sponsorship and fundraising.
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Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.
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I am an obsessive, addicted, manic observer of all forms of sporting activity .
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Of all the sporting activities available during the afternoon, one pleasure is walking through alpine meadows.
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Sponsorship is important for such sporting activities as: golf, football, cricket and motor racing.
event
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Insular Is it because they seem to package their major sporting events in a more professional manner?
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In these nations, the countryside is increasingly being exploited as a source of recreation and as a venue for sporting events .
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However, some minor sporting events , television schedules, crosswords and horoscopes have been omitted.
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The Brighton Centre is a major venue for rock shows, concerts, ice spectaculars and sporting events .
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The most important local sporting event of the entire calendar.
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These authors see the spectating of sporting events as functional for society.
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Cooks organized travel included excursions to important sporting events .
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For further information on staging sporting events contact the National Indoor Arena on 021-.
facility
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Aims: to help both the physically and mentally handicapped, by both providing and contributing towards sporting facilities .
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There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre.
life
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This practical ineptitude filtered through to my sporting life by way of golf.
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If, like me, you prefer the sporting life , then you are spoilt for choice here.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sporting sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sporting event
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Sponsorship is important for sporting activities such as golf, football, cricket and motor-racing.
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the sporting life
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The hotel has four restaurants, a bar and a disco, as well as an impressive range of sporting facilities.
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The Italian Grand Prix is one of the great sporting events of the year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Edinburgh is one of the most active and successful sporting universities in Britain and offers an unrivalled choice of sports and activities.
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I waited, alert for a young man in sporting dress, but by midnight neither of them had reappeared.
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Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.
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Sadly, the sporting sportsman is becoming rarer these days.
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Sutherland has a great sporting tradition.
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The walls of the room were hung with sporting prints and photographs of men and women in riding garb.
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These are issues from which the sporting public is excluded other than in a weekly letters column.
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They organize social and sporting events, weekends away and holiday trips.