contact sport

/ˌkɑntækt spɔrt/

Other forms: contact sports

Definitions of contact sport

1. noun

   a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players
   types:

   boxing, fisticuffs, pugilism

   boxing with bare fists

   grappling, rassling, wrestling

   the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down

   hockey, hockey game, ice hockey

   a 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

   football, football game

   any of various 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

   professional boxing

   boxing for money

   in-fighting

   boxing at close quarters

   fight

   a boxing or wrestling match

   rope-a-dope

   a boxing tactic: pretending to be trapped against the ropes while your opponent wears himself out throwing punches

   spar, sparring

   making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer

   flying mare

   a wrestling maneuver

   Greco-Roman wrestling

   a style of wrestling where the wrestlers are forbidden to tackle or trip or use holds below the waist

   professional wrestling

   wrestling for money

   sumo

   a Japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground

   American football, American football game

   a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays

   professional football

   football played for pay

   rugby, rugby football, rugger

   a continuous-play team sport in which players carry and kick an oval ball to score by grounding it in the end zone or kicking it through H-shaped goalposts

   association football, soccer

   a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal

   type of:

   athletics, sport

   an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition