contact sport
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- noun
- /ˈkɒntækt spɔrt/
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deporte de contacto
- Rugby is considered a contact sport because players often tackle each other during the game.
- contact sports such as football
- contact sport athletes
- contact sport participation
Or is it traumatic because you played a contact sport and it damaged your frontal lobes?
- Or is it traumatic because you played a contact sport and it damaged your frontal lobes?
- And some of the people that they respect the most are the folks who they're battling in the case of, of, of, of contact sports and boxing, literally battling.
- The CT thing is, is a huge deal and it might deter some people from having their kids place play contact sports like that.
- There's more important things in my life at that point than worrying about playing football or contact sports or whether I can eat pizza or salty food.
- There's more important things in my life at that point than worrying about playing football or contact sports or whether I can eat pizza or salty foods.
- I have heard that people that play a lot of high contact sports, so boxing, football, people that head headed the soccer ball quite a lot.
- And the truth is it was in such at the heat of the battle in volleyball contact sport.
Examples
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Avoid strenuous exercise and contact sports until the doctor allows resumption of activities.
Blog text (31) -
This is a contact sport.
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Football is a contact sport.
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This is a contact sport.
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Football is a contact sport!
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I can never play contact sports again.
Academic text (2011) -
This is a rough contact sport.
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It is a contact sport.
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The major concern was the possibility of young students, particularly sixth graders, being injured in contact sports.
Academic text (1991) -
It's a contact sport.
How Physical
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sport involving physical contact' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'contact' (physical touch) with 'sport' (organized physical activity). This is a regular compositional noun phrase pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Contact sport comes from the simple idea that players often make physical contact; contact means 'touch', so a contact sport is a game where players regularly touch, bump, or tackle each other. That's why the phrase means a sport where physical contact is part of the game.