sportingsport‧ing /ˈspɔːtɪŋ $ ˈspɔːr-/ adjective 
The college offers a wide range of sporting activities. one of the major sporting events of the year a great sporting achievement Britain’s sporting heroessporting goods American English a sporting goods store2British English someone who is sporting behaves in a fair and generous way during a game or competition and does not try to win in an unfair way OPP unsporting: It was very sporting of them to wait until the rest of our team had arrived.3sporting chance (of doing something) a fairly good chance of succeeding or winning: I think we’ve got a sporting chance of winning.—sportingly adverb British English: They sportingly agreed to postpone the race until our boat was repaired.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a sporting event
- Sponsorship is important for sporting activities such as golf, football, cricket and motor-racing.
- the sporting life
- The hotel has four restaurants, a bar and a disco, as well as an impressive range of sporting facilities.
- The Italian Grand Prix is one of the great sporting events of the year.
- Edinburgh is one of the most active and successful sporting universities in Britain and offers an unrivalled choice of sports and activities.
- I waited, alert for a young man in sporting dress, but by midnight neither of them had reappeared.
- Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.
- Sadly, the sporting sportsman is becoming rarer these days.
- Sutherland has a great sporting tradition.
- The walls of the room were hung with sporting prints and photographs of men and women in riding garb.
- These are issues from which the sporting public is excluded other than in a weekly letters column.
- They organize social and sporting events, weekends away and holiday trips.
Longman Language Activatorused for sport or related to sport
· Is there a shop that sells sports equipment near here?· Here is a list of the sports clubs in your area.· Heavy rain has flooded the sports field: all fixtures have been cancelled for a month.
: sporting activities/events/facilities etc · The Italian Grand Prix is one of the great sporting events of the year.· The hotel has four restaurants, a bar and a disco, as well as an impressive range of sporting facilities.· Sponsorship is important for sporting activities such as golf, football, cricket and motor-racing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY one of the major sporting events of the year The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
one of the major sporting events of the year American English a sporting goods store
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sporting goods store The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.· Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
(=a fairly good chance)· The proposals had at least a sporting chance of being accepted.
· There is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
· Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
· Many of the weekend’s major sporting events were cancelled due to bad weather.
· Have you checked out the local sports facilities?
(=someone who people admire in a sport)· Tiger Woods was his sporting hero.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Need a partner to share your sporting activities?· Any sporting activity within the Centre.· This hall caters for many sporting activities and social events.· The group organises monthly social and sporting activities, including cycle sessions, and has bought nine tandems through sponsorship and fundraising.· Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.· I am an obsessive, addicted, manic observer of all forms of sporting activity.· Of all the sporting activities available during the afternoon, one pleasure is walking through alpine meadows.· Sponsorship is important for such sporting activities as: golf, football, cricket and motor racing.
· Insular Is it because they seem to package their major sporting events in a more professional manner?· In these nations, the countryside is increasingly being exploited as a source of recreation and as a venue for sporting events.· However, some minor sporting events, television schedules, crosswords and horoscopes have been omitted.· The Brighton Centre is a major venue for rock shows, concerts, ice spectaculars and sporting events.· The most important local sporting event of the entire calendar.· These authors see the spectating of sporting events as functional for society.· Cooks organized travel included excursions to important sporting events.· For further information on staging sporting events contact the National Indoor Arena on 021-.
· Aims: to help both the physically and mentally handicapped, by both providing and contributing towards sporting facilities.· There are ample sporting facilities on offer within the Centre.
· This practical ineptitude filtered through to my sporting life by way of golf.· If, like me, you prefer the sporting life, then you are spoilt for choice here.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- After all, you are meant to give the quarry a sporting chance.
WORD FAMILYadjectivesportingunsportingsportynounsportverbsport
1[only before noun] relating to sports: The college offers a wide range of sporting activities. one of the major sporting events of the year a great sporting achievement Britain’s sporting heroessporting goods American English a sporting goods store2British English someone who is sporting behaves in a fair and generous way during a game or competition and does not try to win in an unfair way OPP unsporting: It was very sporting of them to wait until the rest of our team had arrived.3sporting chance (of doing something) a fairly good chance of succeeding or winning: I think we’ve got a sporting chance of winning.—sportingly adverb British English: They sportingly agreed to postpone the race until our boat was repaired.