In our language: The Boss is sporting great pecs, great arms, and a toned stomach.
From any sporting standard, the Beijing World Championships were a stunning accomplishment.
Keef, now 17 and sporting a watch said to cost $50,000, denied sending the mocking tweet.
The next day, Nyhof Dunn drove to Dick's sporting Goods in Gresham.
He returned minutes later dressed in combat gear, including a Kevlar vest, leggings, and sporting a groin protector.
A sense of achievement; of conquering the unconquerable; of pitting human wits against giants and winning—a sporting chance.
Small clouds were sporting and rolling along in the horizon.
But my dad used to wander about He's a sporting old bird and likes to know what's going on.
We put six persons in each, with their bags and sporting apparatus.
There was a cutaway, sporting look about his coat which indicated that he had grown to it from boyhood “in woodis grene.”
"characterized by conduct constant with that of a sportsman," 1799 (e.g. sporting chance, 1897), from present participle of sport (v.).
c.1400, "to take pleasure, to amuse oneself," from Anglo-French disport, Old French desport "pastime, recreation, pleasure," from desporter "to divert, amuse, please, play" (see disport). Sense of "to amuse oneself by active exercise in open air or taking part in some game" is from late 15c. Meaning "to wear" is from 1778. Related: Sported; sporting.
mid-15c., "pleasant pastime," from sport (v.). Meaning "game involving physical exercise" first recorded 1520s. Original sense preserved in phrases such as in sport "in jest" (mid-15c.). Sense of "stylish man" is from 1861, American English, probably because they lived by gambling and betting on races. Meaning "good fellow" is attested from 1881 (e.g. be a sport, 1913). Sport as a familiar form of address to a man is from 1935, Australian English. The sport of kings was originally (1660s) war-making.
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To wear: He sported a Day-glo necktie (1778+)
