blood sport

1. 1.

   sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

   Broadersport

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Questions about blood sport

What does blood sport mean?

blood sport means "sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)".

Is blood sport a common word?

blood sport is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.