team sport

• teamsport, team-sport

team sport (countable and uncountable, plural team sports)

1. (countable) A sport played by two competing teams.
   • 2000, William S. Kern, The Economics of Sports, page 115:

     This impression is underscored by the high level of minority representation in our major team sports.

   • 2014, Eleanor MacLellan, Sole to Soul: Walking a Path toward Loving Accompaniment, page 97:

     But he was required to do a team sport, so he compromised by choosing track, which ironically involved the biggest team of the season.

   • 2014, W. Thomas McDaniel Jr., The Farther Side of Paradise, page 233:

     And I looked forward to the other nine games of the greatest team sport devised by man.

2. (uncountable) All sports involving competing teams, collectively.
   • 2014, Mark Allen, Paul McCarthy, Psychology Express:

     In addition to personality differences between athletes and non-athletes, personality differences were also observed between team sport athletes and individual sport athletes.

   • 2014, Robert Ellis, The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport, page 259:

     The representational aspect of team sport adds to this.

• individual sport