Sport vs. Sporting
Difference Between Sport and Sporting
Sportnoun
(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
Sportingadjective
(not comparable) Pertaining to sports
He got a job in a sporting goods store.Sportnoun
(countable) Something done for fun despite being intended for and primarily used for serious goals.
Sportingadjective
(comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.Sportnoun
(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
Sportingadjective
(comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.Sportnoun
(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
Sportingadjective
Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
Sportnoun
(obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
Sportingnoun
The act of taking part in a sport.
Sportnoun
(obsolete) Mockery; derision.
Sportingadjective
marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play;
a clean fighta sporting solution of the disagreementsportsmanlike conductSportnoun
(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Sportingadjective
relating to or used in sports;
sporting eventssporting equipmentSportnoun
(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
Sportingadjective
involving risk or willingness to take a risk;
a sporting chancesporting bloodSportnoun
A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
Sportingadjective
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance;
led a dissipated lifea betting mana card-playing son of a bitcha gambling foolsporting gents and their ladiesSportnoun
A sportsman; a gambler.
Sportnoun
One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
Sportnoun
An amorous dalliance.
Sportnoun
A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
Sportnoun
(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
Sportverb
(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
children sporting on the greenSportverb
(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
Jen sports with Bill's emotions.Sportverb
(transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes;he was sporting a new wound from the combatSportverb
(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
Sportverb
(transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
Sportverb
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
Sportverb
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.
Sportverb
(transitive) To close (a door).
Sportnoun
an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
Sportnoun
the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
Sportnoun
someone who engages in sports
Sportnoun
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
Sportnoun
(Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident of inland Maine
Sportnoun
verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously);
he became a figure of funSportverb
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;
she was sporting a new hatSportverb
play boisterously;
The children frolicked in the gardenthe gamboling lambs in the meadowsThe toddlers romped in the playroom
