Synonyms of sporting

sporting 1 of 2

noun

as in sportiveness

Related Words

• sportiveness
• cavorting
• romping
• gamboling
• frolicking
• merrymaking
• revelry
• frivolity
• roistering
• playfulness
• rascality
• roguishness
• trickery
• prankishness
• boisterousness
• rowdyism
• roguery
• rowdiness
• mischievousness
• devilry
• impishness
• rambunctiousness
• mischief
• knavery
• joking
• funning
• rumbustiousness
• monkey business
• buffoonery
• clowning
• skylarking
• nonsense
• tomfoolery
• horseplay
• jesting
• roughhousing
• high jinks
• roughhouse
• clownishness
• monkeying
• clownery
• horsing around
• childishness
• slapstick
• foolishness
• shenanigan(s)
• silliness
• waggery
• foolery
• monkeyshine(s)

sporting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of sport

1

as in playing

to engage in activity for amusement

from sailing to snorkeling, each day we sported at a different activity offered by the beach resort

Synonyms & Similar Words

• playing
• recreating
• frolicking
• entertaining
• rollicking
• toying
• amusing
• disporting
• relaxing
• joking
• skylarking
• cavorting
• romping
• delighting
• resting
• hanging
• dallying
• pleasing
• dabbling
• trifling
• frisking
• teasing
• gamboling
• diverting
• idling
• loafing
• fiddling (around)
• puttering (around)
• screwing around
• lounging (around or about)
• dawdling
• messing around
• jesting
• hanging about
• bumming (around)
• slacking (off)
• goldbricking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• working
• struggling
• striving
• sweating
• laboring
• straining
• toiling
• plodding
• plugging (away)
• slaving
• drudging

2

as in dancing

to play and run about happily

the millionaire's grandchildren sporting on the estate's spacious grounds

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dancing
• hopping
• leaping
• cavorting
• romping
• skipping
• gamboling
• capering
• frolicking
• rollicking
• frisking
• larking
• tumbling
• reveling
• cutting capers
• disporting
• springing
• prancing
• bounding
• curvetting
• loping
• tripping
• carousing
• roistering
• kicking up one's heels
• horsing around
• clowning
• cutting up
• fooling around
• carrying on
• skylarking
• kiting
• roughhousing
• joyriding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouting
• sulking
• stewing
• moping

3

as in displaying

to present so as to invite notice or attention

sported his flashy new car by driving it all over town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• displaying
• exhibiting
• flashing
• showing
• unveiling
• waving
• parading
• exposing
• flaunting
• producing
• announcing
• strutting
• disporting
• showing off
• brandishing
• advertising
• flourishing
• laying out
• revealing
• proclaiming
• broadcasting
• publicizing
• posting
• discovering
• blazing
• heralding
• trumpeting
• airing
• baring
• telling (of)
• divulging
• sounding
• talking (about)
• uncovering
• placarding
• unmasking
• uncloaking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• masking
• disguising
• camouflaging
• concealing
• covering
• hiding
• obscuring
• occluding
• shrouding
• veiling
• occulting
• curtaining
• enshrouding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sporting

Noun

After checking in, Kramer went to a sporting goods store, where agents saw him at the gun counter. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Clegg noted that many visitors traveling for large sporting events like the Olympics opt to explore areas beyond the host city. — Rose Evans september 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026

Sweeney has responded to the condemnation with images of great sporting women stripping down in the name of strength and power. — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Earlier this year, J Balvin utilized another major sporting event as a showcase by wearing a multi-color iteration of his Air Jordan 4 at the Super Bowl. — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are entering the fall bigger than ever before, with major events like a presidential election and sporting events driving adoption in recent years. — Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

The Invictus Games, an international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick military personnel and veterans, were founded in 2014 by Prince Harry. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 13 Sep. 2026

Verb

In the hierarchy of sporting alpha males, there is no one higher than quarterback. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026

Instead, fashion, lifestyle and jewelry brands can now enter sporting conversations through alternative avenues of celebrity dressing, partnerships and culturally relevant content. — Alison Bringé, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Brooklyn followed suit with several of the men on the Venice Film Festival red carpet, sporting a classic tuxedo. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026

In English football’s relatively short history of appointing sporting directors, or directors of football, very few have generated such scrutiny or discussion as Hughes did at Liverpool. — James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026

The square and canals of Venice are famously packed with shorts-and-sneaker-sporting tourists in late summer and even historic homes on small cobblestone streets have been converted to Airbnbs. — Beth Landman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Kyle complemented his now-wife’s emo style by sporting an all-black outfit with a red rose boutonniere. — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026

Jim is an aficionado of NFL lore, nostalgic about the junk wax era and regular viewer of random classic (and some not-so classic) sporting events. — Jim Reineking, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026

Portland’s women’s sporting epicenter Lisa believes her family’s years in the fashion industry gave her and her brother a premonition about the rise of women’s sports years before the NWSL and WNBA would take off in earnest. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

Phrases Containing sporting

• sporting house