sporting

sporting
    adj 1: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a
           clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement";
           "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: {clean}, {sporting},
           {sporty}, {sportsmanlike}]
    2: relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting
       equipment"
    3: involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting
       chance"; "sporting blood"
    4: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games
       of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-
       playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents
       and their ladies" [syn: {dissipated}, {betting}, {card-
       playing}, {sporting}]
    

Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sporting}.]
   1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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            [Fish], sporting with quick glance,
            Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
      given to betting, as upon races.
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   3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson.
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   4. (Bot. & Zool.) To assume suddenly a new and different
      character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
      the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
      See {Sport}, n., 6. --Darwin.
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   Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
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Sporting \Sport"ing\, a.
   Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports;
   exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
   which, sports.
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   {Sporting book}, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
      operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.

   {Sporting house}, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
      and the like.

   {Sporting man}, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
      racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.

   {Sporting plant} (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
      offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
      different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
      --Darwin.
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41 Moby Thesaurus words for "sporting":
      acrobatic, agonistic, athletic, betting, cardsharping,
      casting lots, chase, chevy, chivy, coursing, cynegetics,
      fair-minded, falconry, fox hunting, gambling, gaming, gunning,
      gymnastic, hawking, hazarding, hunt, hunting, palaestral, play,
      playing, risking, shikar, shooting, sortition, speculation, sport,
      sports, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, square-dealing,
      square-shooting, staking, stalking, still hunt, venery, wagering