contact sport

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   a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players

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Questions about contact sport

What does contact sport mean?

contact sport means "a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players".

Is contact sport a common word?

contact 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.