Definition of "sporting"

sporting

/ˈspɔɹtɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of sport
adjective
comparative more sporting, superlative most sporting
1. (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
2. (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
3. (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
4. (not comparable, obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.
  Quotations
  New Yorkers coined the term “sporting culture” to identify the boisterous male culture then on display on the city's streets.
  2015, Michael Pierson, “Stephen Spaulding's Fourth of July in New Orleans”, in Slap, Andrew L., Towers, Frank, editors, Confederate Cities: The Urban South during the Civil War Era‎, University of Chicago Press, page 137
noun
plural sportings
1. The act of taking part in a sport.
  Quotations
  […] 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 […]
  c. 1675, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity