sport
noun
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
had been sporting
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past perfect progressiveof sport.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He had been sporting director of McLaren’s failed effort to qualify Fernando Alonso for the 2019 Indy 500.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
The orb of the earth is Lotus-shaped, and is upborne by the tusks of Vesava, as if he had been sporting in a lake where the leaves and blossoms float.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
It had collided with the fleet that Piang had been sporting with only an hour before.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Stuart, Florence Partello
She had been sporting with you and then she said in a tired way, 'I want the water.'
From Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian by Westervelt, W. D. (William Drake)
It was loaded with large shot; for he had been sporting for water-fowl.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
