BLOOD SPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood sport mean? 

• BLOOD SPORT (noun)
  The noun BLOOD SPORT has 1 sense:

1. sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

  Familiarity information: BLOOD SPORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD SPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("blood sport" is a kind of...):

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood sport"):

bullfighting; tauromachy (the activity at a bullfight)

cockfighting (participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight)

hunt; hunting (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)