From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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