team sport

plural team sports · alternative teamsport · alternative team-sport

1. countableA sport played by two competing teams.

   And I looked forward to the other nine games of the greatest team sport devised by man.

   2014, W. Thomas McDaniel Jr., The Farther Side of Paradise, page 233

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   This impression is underscored by the high level of minority representation in our major team sports.

   2000, William S. Kern, The Economics of Sports, page 115

   But he was required to do a team sport, so he compromised by choosing track, which ironically involved the biggest team of the season.

   2014, Eleanor MacLellan, Sole to Soul: Walking a Path toward Loving Accompaniment, page 97

2. uncountableAll sports involving competing teams, collectively.

   The representational aspect of team sport adds to this.

   2014, Robert Ellis, The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport, page 259

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   In addition to personality differences between athletes and non-athletes, personality differences were also observed between team sport athletes and individual sport athletes.

   2014, Mark Allen, Paul McCarthy, Psychology Express