bullfighting

[bool-fahyt-ing]

noun

1. a traditional Spanish, Portuguese, or Latin American sport in which a bull is fought by a matador in an arena according to prescribed conventions, traditionally ending with the bull being killed; in Portuguese-style bullfighting, the bull is not killed in the arena.

Example Sentences

But in fact they were leaping from bed to bed in a wild game of bullfighting.

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Hemingway often draws an analogy between dying in war and in bullfighting.

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Such is the rub you may find yourself in with iconoclastic Spanish director Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude,” his first nonfiction film, an unflinching gaze at bullfighting, its hushed, ornate rituals and gruesome realities.

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Others stay active in their culture locally, crisscrossing the Central Valley to attend the weekly summer festas or joining a bullfighting team.

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Yet there was a strong feeling of the unknown when I made the ring walk for my bare knuckle debut in a bullfighting arena in Marbella which looked like a mini colosseum.

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