sparring match

1. 1.

   a practice or exhibition boxing match

   Broaderboxing match

Questions about sparring match

What does sparring match mean?

sparring match means "a practice or exhibition boxing match".

Is sparring match a common word?

sparring match 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.