MEANING
1. A sport or spectacle in which animals are injured or killed.
2. Figuratively, a ruthless competition or conflict.
Use it for
Violence staged as entertainment; spectators enjoying a creature's suffering; organized crueltyShow the audience and rules that convert injury into a spectacle.
Words that belong together
- organized blood sport
- condemn blood sport
- blood sport arena
On the page
The captors had turned animal fighting into a blood sport.
A ledger recorded the profits from the blood sport.
In the dystopian story, the crowd treated the hunt as blood sport.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Also written bloodsport. Figurative extensions describe ruthless competition; ordinary sport is not automatically a blood sport. Noun plural: blood sports. Established closed spelling variant: bloodsport; plural bloodsports.
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