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Everyone loves to root for 'their' home sports team, and that other rival sports team sucks a lot, their bad guys.

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Quick take

Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sports gathered in one view.

noun

Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”).

verb

To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sports.

noun

Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”).

verb

To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.

Example sentences

Everyone loves to root for 'their' home sports team, and that other rival sports team sucks a lot, their bad guys.

For my Master's Project (UC Berkeley), I'm working on sports analytics and furthering in-game sports prediction.

If you’re attentive, analytical, and good with people, join us in revolutionizing how sports and activities are organized.

We have trained machines to understand sports at a level of sophistication that exceeds that of most collegiate players.

Outside of the medical domain, my development projects have included an automated stock-trading engine (including backtesting suite) and various sports analytics software solutions.

Whether effects such as height will prove beneficial in MMA like they do in other sports such as basketball remains to be seen.

Now that we get NutriSludge all three of them are looking healthier, I can't believe my youngest is good at sports.

There are plenty of women's sports, and even quite a few women's MMA leagues and productions, so it's not like there had been no opportunities.

I thought it was a Sports Illustrated video where she explained it further.

I have a curious lack of interest in games - chess, sports, video games, board games, etc.

This is even true in mental sports like chess.

We'd like to use the credits to facilitate this and potentially put together some crawlers for other sports data (NBA, NHL, etc.) before the end of the month!

Quote examples

They act like "normal" food is their favorite sports team, or a company that they have vested interest in.

Soldiers in small military units, startups, and again, sports see similar "effects".

You’ll be joining a small team of sales leaders, technologists, and growth hackers as a “sports agent” for the top revenue generators in the tech community.

The only thing this doesn't solve is sports programming, which is practically worthless if it's not live and from which NBC makes a fortune as a "premium" football channel.