spectator sport

1. 1.

   a sport that many people find entertaining to watch

   Broadersport

Questions about spectator sport

What does spectator sport mean?

spectator sport means "a sport that many people find entertaining to watch".

Is spectator sport a common word?

spectator 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.