sporting

1. To amuse oneself, to play.

   children sporting on the green

2. To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.

   Jen sports with Bill's emotions.

3. To display; to have as a notable feature.

   Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes;  he was sporting a new wound from the combat

4. To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
5. To represent by any kind of play.
6. To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
7. To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
8. To close (a door).

noun

The act of taking part in a sport.

1. Pertaining to sports

   He got a job in a sporting goods store.

2. Exhibiting sportsmanship.

   Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.

3. Having a reasonable chance of success.

   You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!

4. Fair, generous; ‘game’.

   It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

5. (obsolete) Of or relating to unseemly male excesses, especially gambling, prostitution, or similar recreational activities.