sports bar

noun

: a bar catering especially to sports fans and typically containing several televisions and often sports memorabilia

Examples of sports bar in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And multiple sports bars around the metro said Chiefs’ fans presence at their establishments had diminished before the team was officially out of the post-season. —Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2026

Wohlfarth said that the fact that sports gambling becoming legal in North Carolina helped a lot with his business — one that forks over $30,000 annually to DirecTV and has to have other streaming platforms to show all sorts of games, the reality of being a sports bar. —Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2026

On a chilly Sunday in December, about two dozen people filled a few tables at Wilka’s, a women’s sports bar in lower Manhattan. —Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026

Gone is the former establishment’s sports bar chic and banks of big-screen TVs. —Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sports bar

• adar
• afar
• ajar
• alar
• ansar
• bazaar
• bizarre
• boxcar
• boyar
• bulbar
• cachar
• cigar