bloodsport

is sacrilege: teaching men to inflict and receive wounds, when man is a sacred thing for man.

Recast in definition form from: “… sacrilege to teach men how to inflict and receive wounds. …”

blood

cruelty

death

entertainment

gladiator

spectacle

violence

aikido

Alpine skiing

American football

archery

athletics

auto racing

Ax throwing

back nine (golf)

badminton

BASE jumping

baseball

baseball game

baseball slide

basketball

biathlon

bobsled

bouldering

bowling

boxing

bullfight

bullfighting

caber toss

cheerleading

cockfighting

college basketball

college football

college sports

competitive eating

cricket

cricket (sport)

croquet

cycling

diving

dog fighting

esports

Fantasy Football

fencing

fishing

floor exercise

flyfishing

football

Formula 1

freerunning

golf

Greco-Roman wrestling

gymnastics

handball

acronyms

anagram

antonym

Back in My Day

binomial

blonde joke

bumper sticker

Chuck Norris

cockney rhyming slang

collective noun

comeback

confucius say

cool comparisons

curse

death mask

Deep Thoughts

etymology

false attribution

famous last word

glossary

greeting

haiku

home remedy

I like my [x] like I like my [y]

idiom

let's make like a  . . .

life hack

light bulb joke

limerick

mixed metaphor

mnemonic device

murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

ology (the study of)

optical illusion

oxymoron

palindrome

phobia

pickup line

psychological phenomena and effects

reimagining the x

riddle

seen here

slang

someone should invent

stupid law

superlative

superstition

symbolism

there's a word for that

things that look like other things

Thomasson hyperart

toast (speech)

Tom Swifty

tongue twister

trolley problem

untranslatable word

wacky wares

weather lore

WTF origins

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