Dictionary

team sport en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable) A 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. (uncountable) All 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:
   • 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:

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individual sport

Translations (19)

de Mannschaftsspiel (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · nb lagidrett (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · pl sport zespołowy (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · fi joukkueurheilu (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · nn lagidrett (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · ja 団体競技 (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · sv lagsport (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · af spansport (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · fr sport collectif (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · de Mannschaftssport (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · es deporte de equipo (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · sv lagidrott (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · cs kolektivní sport (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · pl sport drużynowy (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · ja チームスポーツ (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · fr sport d'équipe (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · cmn 團隊運動 /团队运动 (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · hu csapatsport (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players) · da holdsport (sport competed between two teams each with two or more players)