sporting

Definitions

1. The act of taking part in a sport.
2. present participle and gerund of sport
3. Pertaining to sports
4. Exhibiting sportsmanship
5. Fair, generous; game
6. Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] 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 […]”

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