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sports

1. relating to or similar to a sports car
2. Brit a meeting held at a school or college for competitions in various athletic events
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e-sports

(Electronic-SPORTS) Multiplayer video games often played by professional gamers in competitive matches and viewed online via streaming or in stadiums around the world. In sheer volume, e-sports competes with all athletic events. In 2017, more than $100 million was awarded in prize money for winners in games such as StarCraft, Super Smash Bros. and Melee. See Twitch and video game.
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Then Euryalus reviled him outright and said, "I gather, then, that you are unskilled in any of the many sports that men generally delight in.
It was their business to manage everything connected with the sports, so they made the ground smooth and marked a wide space for the dancers.
The Good Sport said she was crazy about Englishmen.
The Good Sport said that she was crazy about the English accent.
For a long time Billy Kirby would then be seen sauntering around the taverns, the rider of scrub races, the bully of cock-fights, and not infrequently the hero of such sports as the one in hand.
A good deal of higgling about the price of the choicest bird had taken place between Billy Kirby and its owner before Natty and his companions rejoined the sportsmen It had, however, been settled at one shilling * a shot, which was the highest sum ever exacted, the black taking care to protect himself from losses, as much as possible, by the conditions of the sport.
Now leave we the priest to marry them, and the masquers to sport round the Maypole, till the last sunbeam be withdrawn from its summit, and the shadows of the forest mingle gloomily in the dance.
When he has furnished all the sport he can, he is not any longer useful, and is killed."
"There would be some sport," said John Harned, "if a toreador were killed once in a while.
"It is the cowardly sport of a cowardly people," he said.
Then presently the director of the sport cried, "Play!" and they came together again; but now Eric played warily, for he found his man was of right good mettle, and also he had no sweet memory of the blow that he had got; so this bout neither Little John nor the Lincoln man caught a stroke within his guard.
On another most blissful morning, these four gentlemen partook of the amusement of rat-hunting in a barn, than which sport Rawdon as yet had never seen anything more noble.
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