- present participle of sport.
sporting
Example Sentences
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Pereira had already planned pre-season in Portugal and Forest were due to play friendlies against Blackburn, Vitoria Guimaraes, Sporting Lisbon, Leverkusen, Barcelona and Udinese over the summer.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026
Sporting events accounted for 96 of the top 100 most watched telecasts of 2025 — tied with 2023 for the most ever, per Sports Business Journal.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026
Argentina, meanwhile, was so blown away by Sporting KC’s main training center that it signed up 72 hours after its visit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
"We are a small country that rarely has global impact outside football," Joao Aroso, who worked with the forward both at Sporting and at the national team, told BBC Sport.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
“I need to get to the Baker Sporting Emporium.”
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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