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1. Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
   "a sporting solution of the disagreement";
   - clean, sporty, sportsmanlike
    
2. Relating to or used in sports
   "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"
    
3. Involving risk or willingness to take a risk
   "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
    
4. Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
   "sporting gents and their ladies";
   - dissipated, betting, card-playing

1. Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
   "she was sporting a new hat";
   - feature, boast
    
2. Play boisterously
   "The children sported in the garden";
   - frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

See also: adventuresome, adventurous, fair, indulgent, just

Type of: feature, have, play

Encyclopedia: Sporting Sporting, Alexandria, Egypt