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Meanings of competitive sport in English

Russian
спорт высоких достижений
Portuguese
desporto competitivo
Spanish
deporte competitivo
Catalan
l'esport de competició

Applying an intensive sports, with the aim to achieve a high performance in the competition.

      спорт высоких достижений
      Usage of competitive sport in English
      1
      Transportation With subways crippled in New York City, cab-flagging became a competitive sport.
      Reuters
      2
      Olympic wresting is the real thing, the oldest known competitive sport.
      The Irish Times
      3
      It made walking less of a competitive sport and allowed her to window-shop.
      Diagnosis: danger
      4
      It's odd that such a competitive sport should embrace such an anticompetitive ritual.
      Reuters
      5
      Only in Silicon Valley could raising money be turned into a competitive sport.
      The Irish Times
      6
      Here we have emphatic proof of the priceless value of confidence in competitive sport.
      The Irish Times
      7
      Cameron agreed, saying: I would like to promote competitive sport.
      The Guardian
      8
      Recreational and competitive sport could also restart, and libraries, playgrounds and museums would open.
      The Guardian
      9
      The first transsexual person to play in competitive sport after transitioning was Renée Richards.
      The Guardian
      10
      I used to date a woman whose family treated Christmas gift-giving as a competitive sport.
      Ebony
      11
      Ofsted found a correlation between the quality of competitive sport provision and wider academic achievement.
      The Guardian
      12
      By a bivariable Cox model, splice site mutations and competitive sport predicted sudden cardiac death.
      Pubmed
      13
      The report says schools should take care to differentiate their competitive sport offering from physical exercise.
      The Guardian
      14
      Students in Hawaii could soon be competing against other schools in another competitive sport - surfing.
      The Irish Times
      15
      The quiz has grown since then, and some families have turned it into a competitive sport.
      The Irish Times
      16
      In competitive sport, small advantages like this matter.
      BBC
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      Translations for competitive sport
      Competitive sport across language varieties
      Ireland
      Common
      United States of America
      Less common
      United Kingdom
      Rare