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noun

any sport involving killing or the shedding of blood, as bullfighting, cockfighting, or hunting.

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Origin of blood sport

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby blood sport

blood royal, blood sausage, blood serum, bloodshed, bloodshot, blood sport, bloodstain, bloodstained, bloodstock, bloodstock industry, bloodstone

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How to use blood sport in a sentence

There was a disconnect between what outsiders perceived as a dated blood sport and the holistic, healthy lifestyle LaVere and so many others were living.
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Toussaint may be demilitarized, but tradition is sacred here … and the citizens enjoy blood sport as much as anyone else in the Nilfgaardian Empire.
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Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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For nearly her entire life Beyoncé has been giving us her blood, sweat, and tears in her career.
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The Royal Family has benefited hugely from the American blood in its veins.
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In its over 1,000-year history, the land has soaked in the blood of millions of people.
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The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.
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Many British Ferns evidence a marked tendency to “sport,” and this is a fact which the beginner should always bear in mind.
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These differences of interests will lead to disputes, ill blood, and finally to separation.
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There lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.
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Louis pressed his father's hand to his lips; that hand which was hardly washed from the stain of Wharton's blood!
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British Dictionary definitions for blood sport

blood sport

noun

any sport involving the killing of an animal, esp hunting

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