spectator sport

noun

1

: a sport (such as football, baseball, ice hockey, etc.) that many people watch

2

: something that people watch other people do without becoming involved themselves

For many, politics has become a spectator sport.

Examples of spectator sport in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Youth participation has soared, soccer passing baseball to become the second-most-popular sport among teenagers, while a poll released by the Economist in January showed soccer to be America’s third-most-popular spectator sport, trailing only football and basketball. —Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026

Tennis is unlike any other spectator sport. —Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026

Yet today’s deeply competitive professional and spectator sport that spans the globe has far more local origins. —Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026

Or at least until more realize that dinner is not a spectator sport, and that the best sound at a restaurant is still the person sitting across from you. —Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 13 May 2026

The city is teeming with wildlife, and taking it in is a spectator sport. —Abbey Hudetz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2026

But as baseball became a serious endeavor, drag racing turned into a spectator sport for Headrick. —Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026

Some prefer it as a spectator sport. —Noel Brennan, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026

That’s life playing the toughest position in America’s most popular spectator sport. —Michael Silver, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026

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