sporting
/ˈspɔːtɪŋ
/adjective
1 [attributive] Connected with or interested in sport: a major sporting event...
- The cafe and lounge overlook the largest space in the building, a gymnasium used for both sporting and social events, which opens to a paved terrace on the west side.
- Success with that endeavor has led the company to commission artists for a number of world-class sporting events, including the Olympics, each year the games are held.
- Encourage your customers to bring in additional items relating to the shadowbox such as a golf tee, score card, ticket to a sporting event, a baseball hat or an autographed photo with a sports celebrity.
2Fair and generous in one’s behaviour or treatment of others, especially in a contest: it was jolly sporting of you to let me have first go
Synonyms
sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, generous, gentlemanly, considerate, good;
fair, just, honourable
British informal decent
Derivatives
sportingly
/ adverbsense 2. ...- Peter's also achieved the notable feat of going unbeaten in both league seasons, which was sportingly acknowledged by Exeter as they went through the tunnel.
- All the fish were very sportingly returned alive.
- Politicians should take all these things sportingly.
- left-brained
- left-click
- left coast
- left face
- left field
- left-footed
- left hand
- left-hand drive
- left-handed
- left-handedly
- left-handedness
- left-hander
- left-hand rule
- left heart
- leftie
- leftish
- leftism
- leftist
- left-leaning
- left luggage
- left luggage office
- leftmost
- left-of-centre
- leftover
- left, right, and centre (also left and right or right and left)