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CONTACT SPORT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("contact sport" is a kind of...):
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contact sport"):
boxing; fisticuffs; pugilism (fighting with the fists)
grappling; rassling; wrestling (the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down)
hockey; hockey game; ice 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 hockey 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)
