Sporting

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Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. Sporting house a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. - C. Kingsley. 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.

Adj.	1.	sporting - marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" Synonyms: sportsmanlike, clean
	2.	sporting - relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"
	3.	sporting - involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
	4.	sporting - 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" Synonyms: betting, card-playing, gambling, dissipated

acrobatic, agonistic, athletic, betting, cardsharping, casting lots, chase, chevy, chivy, coursing, cynegetics, fair-minded, falconry, fox hunting, gambling, gaming, gunning, gymnastic, hawking, hazarding, hunt, hunting, palaestral, play, playing, risking, shikar, shooting, sortition, speculation, sport, sports, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, square-dealing, square-shooting, staking, stalking, still hunt, venery, wagering