Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

team sport

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.68 in modern English

Syllables: team s-port
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sport played by two competing teams.

Countable

noun

All sports involving competing teams, collectively.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"This impression is underscored by the high level of minority representation in our major team sports."
"But he was required to do a team sport, so he compromised by choosing track, which ironically involved the biggest team of the season."
"And I looked forward to the other nine games of the greatest team sport devised by man."
"In addition to personality differences between athletes and non-athletes, personality differences were also observed between team sport athletes and individual sport athletes."
"The representational aspect of team sport adds to this."

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Sports.

Inflected Forms

team sports (plural) teamsport (alternative) team-sport (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

individual sport

Questions

What does team sport mean?: A sport played by two competing teams.

How to pronounce team sport

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