NOUN
- someone who enjoys outdoor activities
- someone who leads a merry existence; especially a gambler on the outcome of sporting events
How To Use sporting man In A Sentence
- The entire game was played in a fine sporting manner which reflected glowingly on both sets of team managers.
- Many ports have a capital race-course, which is always circular in shape, enclosing what are generally the grounds of the recreation club, while almost every sporting man trains a pony or two, which he frets and fumes over in a style that would not bemean a Newmarket turf magnate. Life and sport in China Second Edition
- Ensignes with other warlike and ioyfull behaviours, expressing by these outward signes, the inward gladnesse of their mindes, being all as ready to ioyne together in mutuall consent to resist the cruel enemie, as now in sporting maner they made myrth and pastyme among themselues. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- She then promptly married sporting man and retired U.S. Army Captain Phillip M. Lydig with that million, and launched herself into a life of beauty, fashion and culture. The Shoe Queen: Rita Lydig | Edwardian Promenade
- Both teams showed a lot of respect for each other and but for some late challenges on players as they struck the ball the game was played in a sporting manner.