contact sport

Noun
  1. A sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players (synset 100434398)
    is a type of: athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
    subtypes:
    • 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

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