individual sport

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meaningsofindividualandsport

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individual
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
existing and considered separately from the other things or people in ...
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sport
noun
uk
/spɔːt/us
/spɔːrt/
a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as ...
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(Definition ofindividualandsportfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It contains thirteen case studies, covering five team sports (the onlyindividualsportthat makes a fleeting appearance is boxing).
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I hope that we shall encourage both team andindividualsportin our schools.
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Will he bear it in mind that there are training centres in every coalfield for competitive andindividualsport?
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Whose job is it if there are repercussions for sport as a whole outside anindividualsport?
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In a village team everyone wants to make more runs and in that sense cricket is anindividualsport.
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Records are not kept of the amount of sponsorship money spent on eachindividualsport.
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Records are not kept of the amount spent on tobacco sponsorship on eachindividualsport.
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In the end, the winner of eachindividualsportwill be announced.
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Although buskashi is primarily anindividualsport, alliances are built up between various players.
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Brazilian jiu-jitsu is a distinctlyindividualsport, and practitioners are encouraged to adapt the techniques to their body type, strategic preferences, and level of athleticism.
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Thisindividualsportrequires endurance, core strength and balance, bike handling skills, and self-reliance.
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Students take up anindividualsportas well as a team sport.
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These rules tend to be restricted to a single small style organization or evenindividualsportevent promotions.
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Most types of competitive freediving have in common that it is anindividualsportbased on the best individual achievement.
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Winning anindividualsportaccrues a set amount of points with the totals deciding the overall winners.
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But it is for the governing bodies and individual sports people to decide whether they accept that advice.
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Even they are less significant than the individual decisions of individual sporting organisations in the 21 sports.
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All those are well learned from traditional team sports, which is why we want to revive them beside individual sports.
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People came to us with abilities in individual sports.
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The breakdown between individual sports in those years has yet to be determined.
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