| NOUN | act | contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
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| Meaning | A sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players. | |
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| Narrower | boxing, pugilism, fisticuffs | fighting with the fists |
| football, football game | Any of various games / games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | |
| ice hockey, hockey, hockey game | A game / game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks | |
| wrestling, rassling, grappling | The sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | |
| Broader | sport, athletics | An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition |
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