sporting vs sports

sporting

noun
  • The act of taking part in a sport. 

adj
  • Exhibiting sportsmanship. 

  • Fair, generous; ‘game’. 

  • Pertaining to sports 

sports

verb
  • To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. 

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