pseudosport
English
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editNoun
editpseudosport (countable and uncountable, plural pseudosports)
- Any competitive event designed for spectators to watch, more lowbrow and involving less skill than a traditional sport.
- Synonyms: junk sport, trashsport
- 2006, Robert Niemi, History in the Media: Film and Television, page 231:
- Some twenty years later pro wrestling abrogated Greco-Roman rules and became a clownish pseudosport when the Great Depression forced promoters to shorten the duration of matches and resort to novelties and gimmicks to attract patrons […]