blood sport

noun

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

blood sport

noun

1. any sport involving the killing of an animal, esp hunting

Word History and Origins

Origin of blood sport¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Americans hate shutdowns, and this one was just more proof that politics is a blood sport.

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With the rise of social media, company marketing has become a blood sport, and political polarization has raised the stakes.

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If there is a sense that no one is safe – that public life itself has become a blood sport – that will have its own corrosive effect on American politics.

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"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."

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For decades, redistricting in Los Angeles has been something of a blood sport.

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