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Sporting vs Dashing - What's the difference?

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Sporting is a related term of dashing.


As verbs the difference between sporting and dashing

is that sporting is while dashing is .

As adjectives the difference between sporting and dashing

is that sporting is (not comparable) pertaining to sports while dashing is spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.

As nouns the difference between sporting and dashing

is that sporting is the act of taking part in a sport while dashing is the action of the verb to dash.

sporting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (more)
  • (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
    • He got a job in a sporting goods store.
  • (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
    • Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
  • (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
    • You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
  • (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
    • It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

    Derived terms

    * sporting goods * sporting house * sporting chance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of taking part in a sport.
  • * (Philip Schaff)

    • dashing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
  • Chic, fashionable.
    • All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to dash.

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