sporting vs staid

sporting

noun
  • The act of taking part in a sport. 

adj
  • Exhibiting sportsmanship. 

  • Fair, generous; ‘game’. 

  • Pertaining to sports 

staid

adj
  • Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober. 

  • Always fixed in the same location; stationary. 

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