SPORTING LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporting life mean? 

• SPORTING LIFE (noun)
  The noun SPORTING LIFE has 1 sense:

1. active interest in gambling on sports events

  Familiarity information: SPORTING LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPORTING LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Active interest in gambling on sports events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("sporting life" is a kind of...):

gambling; gaming; play (the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize))

 Context examples 

I knew now why her face was familiar—its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)