Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sporting

/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: spor-ting
IPA: /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of sport

adj

Pertaining to sports

adj

Exhibiting sportsmanship.

adj

Fair, generous; game.

adj

Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.

Obsolete

noun

The act of taking part in a sport.

Example Sentences

"He got a job in a sporting goods store."
"Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself."
"It was very sporting of her to let us off like that."
"New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets."
"[…] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]"

Etymology

By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more sporting (comparative) most sporting (superlative) sportings (plural)

Derived Forms

nonsporting sportingly sportingness unsporting

Phrases

sporting chance sporting clays sporting door sporting girl sporting goods sporting house sporting lady sporting woman

Synonyms

clean sporty sportsmanlike dissipated betting card-playing gambling

Rhymes With

supporting reporting sorting transporting exporting importing resorting courting snorting distorting purporting deporting

Questions

How do you pronounce sporting?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/.
What does sporting mean?: present participle and gerund of sport
Where does sporting come from?: By surface analysis, sport + -ing.

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