sport ‧ ing /ˈspɔːtɪŋ $ ˈspɔːr-/ BrE AmE adjective
[ Word Family: adjective : ↑ sporting , ↑ unsporting , ↑ sporty ; verb : ↑ sport ; noun : ↑ sport ]
1 . [only before noun] relating to sports:
The college offers a wide range of sporting activities.
one of the major sporting events of the year
a great sporting achievement
Britain’s sporting heroes
sporting goods American English :
a sporting goods store
2 . British English someone who is sporting behaves in a fair and generous way during a game or competition and does not try to win in an unfair way OPP unsporting :
It was very sporting of them to wait until the rest of our team had arrived.
3 . sporting chance (of doing something) a fairly good chance of succeeding or winning:
I think we’ve got a sporting chance of winning.
—sportingly adverb British English :
They sportingly agreed to postpone the race until our boat was repaired.