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.—
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How about pursuing a remake in lieu of pursuing actual blood sport in Venezuela?
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025
That’s bad news for us but good news for the foremost childhood games turned anti-capitalist blood sport film series.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Obsessed anglers who lived in Key West, and whose fiction sometimes gravitates toward horses, blood sports, and male protagonists with a masculine swagger counterbalanced by a certain reflective, existentialist temperament—the similarities between the two are obvious, yet go only so far.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
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
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Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025
That’s bad news for us but good news for the foremost childhood games turned anti-capitalist blood sport film series.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Obsessed anglers who lived in Key West, and whose fiction sometimes gravitates toward horses, blood sports, and male protagonists with a masculine swagger counterbalanced by a certain reflective, existentialist temperament—the similarities between the two are obvious, yet go only so far.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
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
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 15 Dec. 2025.
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