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adj. Used in or appropriate for sports: sporting goods.

adj. Characterized by sportsmanship.

adj. Of or associated with gambling.

v. Present participle of sport.

adj. Pertaining to sports

adj. Exhibiting sportsmanship.

adj. Having a reasonable chance of success.

adj. Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.

n. A sport; a game; specifically, participation in horse-racing, sports of the field, etc.; sports collectively, with all the interests involved in them.

n. In zoology and botany, spontaneous origination of new and singular characters; the appearance of a sport, or the assumption of that character by an individual animal or plant. See sport, v. i., 3, and n., 8.

Engaging or concerned in sport or diversion; specifically, interested in or practising field-sports: as, a sporting man. See sport, n., 9.

In botany and zoology, assuming the character of a sport. See sport, n., 8, Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 413

adj. exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

adj. involving risk or willingness to take a risk

adj. relating to or used in sports

adj. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance

"The birds spent so much time "following the horses," that they gained the nickname "sporting birds.""

just    fair    adventurous    adventuresome    indulgent   

sporting rifle   

sporting goods    sporting chance    sporting house   

flash   

sport   

aborting    cavorting    consorting    courting    deporting    distorting    exhorting    exporting    extorting    importing