CONTACT SPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contact sport mean? 

• CONTACT SPORT (noun)
  The noun CONTACT SPORT has 1 sense:

1. a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players

  Familiarity information: CONTACT SPORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTACT SPORT (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)

 Context examples 

The cause is often a fall or a blow, sometimes from playing a contact sport.

(Dislocations, NIH)