extreme sport
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In 1966, Brian Schubert and a buddy strapped parachutes to their backs and leaped off Yosemite’s 3,000-foot-high El Capitan cliff -- and unwittingly inspired the worldwide extreme sport of base jumping.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
He poured money into sailing, sponsoring an America’s Cup team and pushing for the competition to become more of a high-tech, extreme sport.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
Prof Stevens described tracking small insects with radar as an "engineer's extreme sport".
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024
I had gone down the rabbit hole on bodybuilding — pre-dating the script — out of curiosity because it is such an extreme sport.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2023
Every bite is a direct, uncut injection of Papa Johns toppings, a new extreme sport.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2022
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