trading card

noun

1. one of a set of small cards, as one depicting professional athletes, either sold separately or included as a premium with packages of bubblegum or the like, collected and traded, especially by children.

trading card

noun

1. any of a set of cards printed with images or information relating to a specific subject, intended to be traded between collectors seeking to acquire a full set

Example Sentences

Alongside cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, the trading card market became another beneficiary of so much free time.

From Washington Post

Collectors began trading fan-made memes, called Rare Pepes, and in 2016, a developer created the online platform Rare Pepe Wallet for buying, selling and exchanging them like trading cards.

From Washington Post

Target says it’s done with trading cards — at least for the time being — after a dispute outside one of its Milwaukee-area stores escalated into violence and multiple arrests.

From Washington Post

Sales of other electronics products, including the Xbox Series X and graphics cards, have also grown rapidly, as have categories such as collectibles and trading cards.

From Quartz

He signed endorsement deals with Gatorade, Topps, which has offered both physical trading cards and NFTs with his likeness, and the cryptocurrency investment app Blockfolio—his signing bonus was paid in crypto.

From Time

Sanctions are and always have been more useful as a threat or a trading card than as an effective tool in practice.

From The Daily Beast