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sportsing

sportsing is the present participle and gerund of sports.

Meaning of sports

Verb

sports (third-person singular simple present sportses, present participle sportsing, simple past and past participle sportsed)

  1. To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.
    • But I have a feeling that in many senses the American consumer is getting over-sportsed.1981, Broadcasting, Broadcasting Publications, page 84

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Questions about sportsing

What is sportsing the present participle and gerund of?
Sportsing is the present participle and gerund of sports.

Words near sportsing in the dictionary

  1. sportsground
  2. sportsgrounds
  3. sportshall
  4. sportshalls
  5. sportsification
  6. sportsing
  7. sportsjacket
  8. sportsjacketed
  9. sportsjackets
  10. sportslike
  11. sportsluxe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sportsing (page history and authors); sports (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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