What is the meaning of sporting?

verb

• Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner.
  • usage: "she was sporting a new hat"
  • synonyms: sport, feature, boast
• Play boisterously.
  • usage: "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"
  • synonyms: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run around, lark about

adjective

• Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play.
  • usage: "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
  • synonyms: clean, sporty, sportsmanlike
• Relating to or used in sports.
  • usage: "sporting events"; "sporting equipment"
• Involving risk or willingness to take a risk.
  • usage: "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
• Preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance.
  • usage: "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"
  • synonyms: dissipated, betting, card-playing