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sports bar

noun

Definition of sports barnext
as in nightclub

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Recent Examples of sports bar As a sports bar concept, there’s nothing that matters more than having any game, any time, for customers walking into the establishment. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026 In the fall of 1995, three decades after the March on Washington, the sports bar and restaurant chain Hooters staged a march of its own. — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 Another location of Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi’s Canadian sports bar is coming to North Texas this month. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026 Trophy Club, the once-exclusive bar attached to the downtown indoor mini-golf and sports bar Tipsy Putt, is undergoing a transformation. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sports bar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sports bar
  1. nightclub
  2. bottle club
  3. bistro
  4. cabaret
  5. joint
  6. dive
  7. roadhouse
  8. brewpub
Noun
  • His friends pushed him to be bold and climb onto the platforms at Badlands nightclub typically reserved for professional go-go dancers.
    — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The lobby featured a multi-story atrium and a nightclub with dancers, a show and dinner.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of nightclub
Noun
  • The restaurant was established in 2003 as a Grand Mariner bottle club, which has now grown to a community of 3,500 members.
    — JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Regular events and a bottle club help build community.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
Definition of bottle club
Noun
  • There are two full-service eateries—a Mediterranean spot, Muze Lounge & Terrasse, and a French bistro, Commodore Restaurant—as well as an indoor pool and a dry sauna where guests can luxuriate.
    — Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
  • That restaurant is Faux, a neo-bistro that opened a few days ago on Church Street—just steps away from many galleries on White Street.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of bistro
Noun
  • Cruz surfaces in it as a bawdy cabaret singer, a role the size of a cameo that critics off the Croisette and now here at Telluride have already tagged a scene-stealer.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • While all of the women found their respective moment to shine, no one rose to the occasion quite like Luann de Lesseps, who seemingly decided on her own that Kyle’s white party would be the perfect backdrop for a cabaret performance like none other.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of cabaret
Noun
  • When Russians discovered karaoke, thousands of venues sprang up, from cheap sushi joints to lavish establishments where an orchestra and backup singers accompanied anyone willing to step onto the stage and, for a few minutes, feel like a star.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • According to William, the only way his dad could uncoil his nerves was with a joint.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of joint
Noun
  • The 10-year yield spiked, the dollar dropped and stocks took a dive.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • An older man to my right tripped and took a face-first dive across the pavement, glasses flying off his face.
    — Timothy Townsend, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of dive
Noun
  • Texas native blends roadhouse rock, bluesy R&B and country-friend funky-tonk.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Hackney on Harms is actually the original Hackney’s, a tavern and roadhouse that opened after the end of Prohibition in the 1930s.
    — Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of roadhouse
Noun
  • Regan is accused of assaulting a fellow trooper at the ReelHouse brewpub in Marina Bay on June 26 in a one-sided fight that was shown in a video taken off the bar’s security camera.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Douglas County, Nevada, sheriff’s deputies said the charges stemmed from a verbal and physical altercation with a brewpub employee, the Daily Tribune reported at the time.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of brewpub

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“Sports bar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sports%20bar. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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