SPORTER
Sport"er, n.
Defn: One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
SPORTFUL
Sport"ful, a.
1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton.
2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.
They are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley.
— Sport"ful*ly, adv.
— Sport"ful*ness, n.
SPORTING
Sport"ing, a.
Defn: Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. — Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. — Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. — Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. Darwin.
SPORTINGLY
Sport"ing*ly, adv.
Defn: In sport; sportively.
The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.
Hammond.
SPORTIVE
Sport"ive, a.