sport fish

1. 1.

   any fish providing sport for the angler

   Synonymsgame fish

   Broaderfish

Questions about sport fish

What does sport fish mean?

sport fish means "any fish providing sport for the angler".

What is another word for sport fish?

Close synonyms include game fish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sport fish a common word?

sport fish 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.