rocking vs sportive

rocking

adj
  • Excellent; great. 

  • Shaking, swaying or moving back and forth. 

noun
  • The abrading of a copper plate with a rocker, preparatory to mezzotinting. 

  • The motion by which the design on a steel mill is transferred to a copper cylinder. 

  • The motion of something that rocks. 

sportive

adj
  • Sporty, good at sport. 

  • Playful, coltish. 

  • Interested in sport. 

noun
  • cyclosportive 

How often have the words rocking and sportive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )