blood sport
noun
1
: a sport or contest (such as hunting or cockfighting) involving bloodshed
2
: a ruthless or cutthroat competition or conflict
… the blood sport that is political blogging.—
Massimo Calabresi
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Social media companies have turned our differences into entertainment, our disagreements into blood sport, and our fellow citizens into enemies.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
None of that is true—they were bred for blood sports.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2025
Soon, uptown condos like 15 Central Park West and 220 Central Park South, built in the fashion of the best prewar co-ops but with central air, liberal subletting and pet policies, and a slew of amenities, made the blood sport of vying to buy in a co-op like 820 Fifth or 720 Park seem kind of silly.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025
What is Jubilee hoping to accomplish by platforming radical perspectives and facilitating rage-bait blood sport, even between nominally well-meaning ideologues?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
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Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
None of that is true—they were bred for blood sports.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2025
Soon, uptown condos like 15 Central Park West and 220 Central Park South, built in the fashion of the best prewar co-ops but with central air, liberal subletting and pet policies, and a slew of amenities, made the blood sport of vying to buy in a co-op like 820 Fifth or 720 Park seem kind of silly.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2025
What is Jubilee hoping to accomplish by platforming radical perspectives and facilitating rage-bait blood sport, even between nominally well-meaning ideologues?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for blood sport
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“Blood sport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20sport. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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