teamsport

English

Noun

teamsport (countable and uncountable, plural teamsports)

  1. Alternative form of team sport
    • 2003, James C. Johnstone, Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire, page 87:
      My steady regular Janko the teamsport jock is the prime example.
    • 2010, Eric Anderson, Adam White, Sport, Society and Social Problems: A Critical Introduction, page 71:
      However, there certainly is a tremendous amount of injury that is promoted, albeit not intentionally, in sport. This is not just in teamsport either.
    • 2014, E. Anderson, 21st Century Jocks:
      The ubiquity of teamsport participation also means that there is a great deal of peer pressure, even if not direct, for other youths to play these “games.”
    • 2016, Rory Magrath, Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football:
      Previous research on competitive male teamsports has typically found high levels of homophobia, creating a hostile environment for gay athletes (Bryant, 2001; Hekma, 1998; Pronger, 1990; Wolf-Wendel et al., 2001), which has predominantly manifested through the utility of homophobic language (Burn, 2000) and violence (Connell, 1995).

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of team + sport.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈti(ː)m.spɔrt/
  • Hyphenation: team‧sport

Noun

teamsport f (plural teamsporten)

  1. A team sport.
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