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(chiefly Britain) A versatile person, able to do many things well; used especially in reference to being good at various sports.
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(sports, countable) area record: best achievement among those by persons from a given continent
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(sports) The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.
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(figuratively) Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
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(sports) The quality and number of players available to substitute during a game.
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(sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
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(sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race.
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A finish of a race, such as a running race, which is very close between a number of competitors.
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(sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
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(by extension) Finishing in third position.
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(chiefly US, idiomatic) A professional sports association at the lower levels of minor league organization.
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A major, long-standing sporting event.
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An event in which a number of teams, each represented by a different color, compete against each other to earn points through various challenges.
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(sports, of a sport) To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
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(sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
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(sports) An athletic contest which involves a significant amount of physical contact between the participating athletes.
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A pair of sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
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Alternative form of eighthman [(South Africa, rugby) The position of one of the forwards at the rear of a scrum formation who controls the ball at the back of the scrum and links to the back line; number eight.]
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(US, sports) to remove the varsity players from a game and insert junior varsity players. Usually happens toward the end of a one-sided contest.
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A school day for athletic events; a sports day.
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(sports) A line marking the end of a race.
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(sports) An unaffiliated player.
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(US, slang) A fourth successive win.
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(by extension, figuratively) The day when something important is scheduled to happen.
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(sports) A document used in sports in order to keep track of goals, penalties, assists, etc.
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(sports) A decision about the conduct of a sporting event, usually one made by the coach regarding which players will start or will play, or which strategy will be employed, which is put off until the start of the game itself.
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The day on which a sports team plays a game.
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used to refer to all kinds of sporting events, major awards at festivals and competitions in various fields
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(sports) close ending to a sports match, race or competition
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The sharing of a sports ground between two or more teams.
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(sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
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(sports) The advantage a sports team has from using their usual sports field
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(by extension) The advantage anyone enjoys from familiar surroundings or circumstances.
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(idiomatic, sports) An athletic contest played in a team's own geographic area.
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(sports) a sports team's own ground, which is used for their home games.
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(sports) A series of consecutive games played at one's home ground
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(idiomatic, sports) The team that is playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to the visitor team.
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(British, sports) [of a series of two matches] having one game played at each competitor's home ground; (Canada, US) home-and-home
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(Canada, US, sports) (Britain, obsolete) [of a series of two games] having one game played at each competitor's home ground; (British) home-and-away
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(Canada, US, also attributive) In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
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Alternative form of home game [(idiomatic, sports) An athletic contest played in a team's own geographic area.]
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(US, sports) A person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team.
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(sports, slang) A player for the home team.
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Alternative spelling of home team [(idiomatic, sports) The team that is playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to the visitor team.]
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(sports) A player who plays on many different teams during the course of his career.
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(chiefly sports, originally cycling) Last place in a competition or other ranking
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(sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
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A sports match between local rival teams.
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In sports training, an annual plan that works towards peaking for the goal competition of the year.
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(obsolete, gaming, sports) A sporting contest or match, especially a cockfighting match.
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(dated) A player employed by a private club to compete against members.
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(sports) An outstanding athlete popular with audiences
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A visual depiction or ranking of the number of medals won by certain teams at a multi-event competition, especially the Olympic Games.
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Someone who takes part in a sport or similar event in midweek.
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(sports) A team with an exceptionally talented group of players, or that group of players.
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(sports) The finish of a race in which the leaders are so close together that the winner cannot be identified using the naked eye but is determined by means of a photograph.
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(sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
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(sports, colloquial) To finish in the top three at an event or competition.
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(ice hockey) Synonym of enforcer
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A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
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(slang) The general public, a body of customers.
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(sports) Abbreviation of ranked as last.; a penalty score relegating a racer to the last placing in a heat
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Beside the ring, especially a boxing ring.
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(sports) A stage in a competition.
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(sports slang) An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
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One set of competitors in a game.
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Someone who has received a silver medal
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A school day set aside for athletics events.
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A collective list of the standing of each team in a league.
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(countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
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(sports, chiefly basketball) A team composed of three or more high-caliber players, especially one assembled by free agency or trades rather than by drafting.
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A game played in a team, as opposed to individually
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(uncountable) All sports involving competing teams, collectively.
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Alternative form of team sport [(countable) A sport played by two competing teams.]
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(sports, Britain) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
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(sports) A set of competitions which make up a championship.
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(horse racing, Canada) The three greatest thoroughbred races of the year restricted to three-year-olds: the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, and Breeders' Stakes
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Three sporting events, one after the other, at a single venue.
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(sports) A stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.
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(sports) The team in a sport that has traveled out of its home area to play, as opposed to the home team.
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(sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
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(regional) The visiting team; the sports team that is not playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to the home team.
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A platform with three height levels on which the three most successful sports competitors stand when receiving medals.
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The post that marks the end of a racecourse, sometimes equipped with a camera for recording photo finishes
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The trophy awarded to the winner of such an event.
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