sporting

Universal Words adjective 1 [onlybeforenoun] connected with sports: a major sporting event * a range of sporting activities * His main sporting interests are golf and tennis. * (AmE) a store selling sporting goods 2 (especially BrE) fair and generous in your treatment of other people, especially in a game or sport OPPfor sense 2 UNSPORTING sportingly adverb: He sportingly agreed to play the point again. IDIOMS a sporting chance a reasonable chance of success