team sport

English

Alternative forms

• teamsport, team-sport

Noun

team sport (countable and uncountable, plural team sports)

1. (countable) A sport played by two competing teams.
   • 2000, William S. Kern, The Economics of Sports, page 115:

     This impression is underscored by the high level of minority representation in our major team sports.

   • 2014, Eleanor MacLellan, Sole to Soul: Walking a Path toward Loving Accompaniment, page 97:

     But he was required to do a team sport, so he compromised by choosing track, which ironically involved the biggest team of the season.

   • 2014, W. Thomas McDaniel Jr., The Farther Side of Paradise, page 233:

     And I looked forward to the other nine games of the greatest team sport devised by man.

2. (uncountable) All sports involving competing teams, collectively.
   • 2014, Mark Allen, Paul McCarthy, Psychology Express:

     In addition to personality differences between athletes and non-athletes, personality differences were also observed between team sport athletes and individual sport athletes.

   • 2014, Robert Ellis, The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport, page 259:

     The representational aspect of team sport adds to this.

Antonyms

• individual sport

Translations

sport competed between two teams each with two or more players

• Afrikaans: spansport (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 團隊運動 / 团队运动 (tuánduì yùndòng)

• Czech: kolektivní sport m
• Danish: holdsport c
• Finnish: joukkueurheilu
• French: sport d’équipe m, sport collectif (fr) m
• German: Mannschaftssport (de) m, Mannschaftsspiel (de) n
• Hungarian: csapatsport (hu)
• Japanese: 団体競技 (ja) (dantaikyougi), チームスポーツ (chīmu supōtsu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lagidrett (no) m

  Nynorsk: lagidrett m

• Polish: sport drużynowy m, sport zespołowy m
• Spanish: deporte de equipo m
• Swedish: lagidrott (sv) c, lagsport (sv) c