contact sport
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"Football is a contact sport, we keep forgetting about that and VAR is really spoiling it. It really annoyed me as it could have been a different game at 2-1."
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
She is playing Kabaddi, an Indian contact sport now played in more than 50 countries across the world.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025
The regional fare includes dragon boat racing, sepaktakraw — sometimes called “kick volleyball” — wushu, a Chinese martial art, and kabaddi, a popular contact sport on the Indian subcontinent.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023
“The Paul thing is devastating to the club, but again, it’s a contact sport — things happen,” McElhenney told S4C during the interview from Philadelphia.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023
Even for young kids, though, it was a tough contact sport.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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