English-Italian translations for sporting

• sportivo
  Userò un termine più sportivo: una squadra. I will offer you a more sporting simile: a team.
  Il responsabile principale in materia di sport è il movimento sportivo e così deve continuare ad essere. The sporting movement should bear the primary responsibility for sport, both now and in the future.
  Si tratta del secondo avvenimento sportivo più importante dopo la Coppa del mondo. This is the second-largest sporting event after the World Cup.

Definition of sporting

• Pertaining to sports
• Exhibiting sportsmanship
• Having a reasonable chance of success
• Fair, generous; ‘game’
• Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities
• The act of taking part in a sport

Examples

• He got a job in a sporting goods store.
• Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
• You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldnt call even him a long shot!
• It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

Related words

• transporting
• sportingly
• unsporting
• sporting house
• sporting event
• sporting aircraft
• sporting woman
• sporting club
• unsporting behaviour