Collocations withsport

These are words often used in combination withsport.

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amateur sport
Recognition of the importance of amateur sport is therefore in line with the idea of bringing sport close to the citizens.
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chosen sport
Earlier in his speech, he referred to school as providing the first opportunity for pupils to learn the skills and tactics of their chosen sport.
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college sport
These functions include providing for school and college sport, but do not of course include the provision for general recreational facilities.
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collegiate sport
In this assignment he introduced fencing as a collegiate sport.
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competitive sport
Elitelevel competitive sport, for example, was left to the voluntary sector through the sport-specific national governing bodies.
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endurance sport
Cycling was an endurance sport and the organisers realised the sales they would achieve by creating supermen of the competitors.
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equestrian sport
One difficulty is that ours is a purely equestrian sport.
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individual sport
It contains thirteen case studies, covering five team sports (the only individual sport that makes a fleeting appearance is boxing).
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indoor sport
That is a distinction between an indoor sport and an outdoor sport.
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intercollegiate sport
It was dropped as an intercollegiate sport in 1954.
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interscholastic sport
Approximately 60% of the students participate in an interscholastic sport on one of the 54 athletic teams.
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intramural sport
In the third nine weeks there is basketball as the intramural sport.
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major sport
The other major sport where enormous progress has been made is cricket.
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motor sport
The many other sports that were mentioned today—mountaineering, rugby, motor sport, horse racing and various aviational activities—all contain a considerable degree of personal risk.
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organized sport
Only in the spheres of organized sport, friendly society activity, economic and trade co-operation was the railway workforce strongly represented in town-based social organizations.
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outdoor sport
If a gentleman had no burning academic or artistic interests, what remained was not very much: outdoor sport, indoor entertainment (billiards, amateur theatricals), the pursuit of ladies, and dinner.
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popular sport
Its desire of promoting 'responsible' leisure activities did not extend to restrictions on hunting mammals, let alone the extremely popular sport of angling.
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professional sport
We want the autonomy of the professional sport to be fully respected.
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racquet sport
Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court.
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respective sport
Typically, these guests appeared only during the season of their respective sport.
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sport complex
There is a sport complex, including a swimming pool with heated seawater.
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sport facility
That's the biggest sport facility of the team.
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sport fisherman
Weekends in the summer find the lake filled with many pontoon boats, personal watercraft, sport fisherman, and swimmers.
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sport fishing
It encompasses the various recreational activities, such as sport fishing, riverine boating, visitation of archeological sites, and bird watching.
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televised sport
There are great dangers in leaving televised sport to the market.
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varsity sport
It was recognized as a school sport after the 1982 season and officially began as a varsity sport in 1983.
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winter sport
It is a kind of winter sport.
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