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

Andy Howe, the senior football executive, had presented an exciting pitch to Steur and his camp, while Ross Wilson, the sporting director, re-emphasised how Newcastle would look to develop the midfielder. — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Security guards are often the first people to respond when something goes wrong in an office building, hospital, hotel, shopping mall, college, entertainment or sporting venue. — Rick Pozniak, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026

At the same time, the town is just a 35-minute drive from downtown Pittsburgh, giving its residents easy access to pro sporting events, concerts, and world-class cultural institutions, like the Carnegie Museum of Art. — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 20 Aug. 2026

Drawing more than 90,000 for a game is the tallest of orders for any indoor sporting event, that this one is women’s volleyball is daunting, but not deterring. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Aug. 2026

Which isn’t to say that co-viewing has entirely died out in the age of hyper-fragmentation, as big-time sporting events still have the power to fill a living room. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Evans expects more premium, lounge-style experiences to appear at sporting events, music festivals and other lifestyle destinations. — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

For the Bay Area, the WNBA All-Star game will be the latest in a string of sporting events the region has lured. — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

Verb

Vuitton’s Pharrell Williams, meanwhile, sent out models sporting dangling silver bands daintily engraved with the brand’s LV monogram. — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2026

Prediction markets have rapidly expanded beyond elections and sporting events to include highly specific questions about wars, military strikes, and government actions. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026

Of course, this horrid wave of diarrhea-inflicting illness wasn’t dumped from the sky by a crown-sporting octogenarian president zooming around in a fighter jet. — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026

The grape has truly found its spiritual home in New Zealand, where winemakers generally make cheap and cheery versions sporting aromas and flavors of cut grass, green herbs, green apple, and melon. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026

But the strategic cocktail of soft nationalism, corporate politics and ticket-sales boosterism that constitutes the wild card system more often overshadows sporting fairness. — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

The athlete kept his outfit casual for the drive, sporting a black T-shirt, tan pants and black sunglasses. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026

Once Wanda’s ruse is uncovered, the real Vision (now sporting a white costume) is reanimated and has his full memory restored. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026

Swift was also sporting much shorter hair, sitting just below her shoulders. — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 13 Aug. 2026

Phrases Containing sporting

• sporting house