esports
esports is the abbreviation of electronic sports.
Noun capitalized: eSports
eSports (uncountable)
- Alternative form of esports.
- [Counter-Strike] quickly replaced Quake as the most popular title in competitive gaming and has since then remained the central element in western eSports events.2007, Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Bottger, Drew Davidson, Heather Kelley, Julian Kücklich, Space Time Play: Synergies Between Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: the Next...
- In Korea, eSports events are regularly televised by cable channels as well as later through IP televisions.2010, Dal Yong Jin, Korea's Online Gaming Empire, MIT, page 60
Synonyms of esports
Forms of esports
| alternative form | eSports |
|---|---|
| alternative form | e-sports |
Origin of esports
From e- + sports.
Questions about esports
- What is esports the abbreviation of?
- Esports is the abbreviation of electronic sports.
- What part of speech is esports?
- Esports is a noun.
Words near esports in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: esports (page history and authors); eSports (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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