Usually means: Watching others compete for entertainment.
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  1. spectator sport: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spectator sport: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spectator sport: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spectator sport: Vocabulary.com
  5. spectator sport: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spectator sport: Wiktionary
  7. spectator sport: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. spectator sport: Dictionary.com
  9. Spectator sport: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. spectator sport: Rhymezone
  11. spectator sport: Free Dictionary
  12. spectator sport: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. spectator sport: Dictionary/thesaurus

(Note: See spectator_sports as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spectator sport)

noun:  A sporting activity which has a relatively high ratio of watchers to direct participants.
noun:  (idiomatic) Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in.
noun:  (idiomatic) An activity which consists of watching or observing.

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