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
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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