See Also: Sporting(medicine)
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sporting (oh)



[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 AmE
::a sporting goods store
BrE 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
-opposite unsporting unsporting
::It was very sporting of them to wait until the rest of our team had arrived.
sporting chance (of doing sth)
a fairly good chance of succeeding or winning
::I think we've got a sporting chance of winning.
-- sportingly adv BrE
::They sportingly agreed to postpone the race until our boat was repaired.