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team sport

team sport noun: a sport played by two competing teams.

Noun

team sport (countable and uncountable, plural team sports)

  1. (countable) A sport played by two competing teams.
    • 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. (uncountable) All sports involving competing teams, collectively.
    • 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
    • The representational aspect of team sport adds to this.2014, Robert Ellis, The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport, page 259

Forms of team sport

pluralteam sports
alternative formteamsport
alternative formteam-sport

Questions about team sport

What does team sport mean?
Team sport means a sport played by two competing teams.
What part of speech is team sport?
Team sport is a noun.
What is the plural of team sport?
The plural of team sport is team sports.

Words near team sport in the dictionary

  1. team pursuit
  2. team pursuits
  3. team sheet
  4. team sheets
  5. team spirit
  6. team sport
  7. team sports
  8. team teacher
  9. team teachers
  10. team time trial
  11. team time trials

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