team sport
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2.6
- noun
- /tim spɔrt/
:
deporte de equipo
- Many children enjoy participating in a team sport like soccer, which fosters teamwork and friendship.
- participating in team sports
- team sports, like basketball
- team sports: football
I was not good at team sports or ball sports.
- I was not good at team sports or ball sports.
- That's why even in every single team sport, they play individual positions.
- I, I think I, I grew up playing team sports.
- In general, team sports don't suffer this because you had to do it together.
- So it is not an individual sport, it's a team sport.
- Whereas an American baseball, you hit the, you know, everybody's like and, and golf, it's a individual sport, but rugby is a pure team sport.
- And that's when team sport is is is really rarely special.
- Whereas football and team sports, you're you want the boys to succeed.
- I haven't played much team sports since graduating from like great school.
- So and that's that's one thing I said like like wrestling really is a A-Team sport.
Examples
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And this is a team sport.
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The majority of students in this project were involved in interactive team sports such as basketball and soccer.
Academic text (1995) -
And so, you know, it's a team sport and you have to have people on your team that have the same goals you do.
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I was not good at team sports or ball sports.
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So you know, he likes team sports, not individual sports.
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Formula 1 is a team sport.
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How often do you participate in team sports during the week?
Academic text (2015) -
Outside of school, children voluntarily play team sports, hopefully influenced by positive school experiences.
Academic text (2008) -
For example, children who use wheelchairs are often excluded from team sports such as basketball and soccer.
Academic text (1996) -
The teamwork, and the trust, and the sacrifice those are all true for every single team sport.
How Team-Oriented
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sport played by teams' is directly and compositionally derived from 'team' (a group of people) + 'sport' (organized physical activity), following a regular noun–noun compound pattern in English. This logic is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'deporte de equipo', French 'sport d'équipe'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
The compound noun team sport comes from two simple words: team, meaning a 'group of players', and sport, meaning a 'game'. The image of many players working together against another group explains why it means 'a sport played by teams'.