contact sport

contact sport

n.

A sport, such as football or hockey, that involves physical contact between players as part of normal play.

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con′tact sport`

n.

any sport in which physical contact between players is an accepted part of play, as football, boxing, or hockey.

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contact sport - a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs - fighting with the fists rassling, wrestling, grappling - the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down hockey game, ice hockey, hockey - a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks football, football game - any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

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