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Definition of Field sport
1. Noun. A sport that is played outdoors.
Specialized synonyms: Hunt, Hunting, Fishing, Sportfishing
Generic synonyms: Athletics, Sport
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Sport
Literary usage of Field sport
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Firearms of Today in Use by Paul Allan Curtis (1922)
"CHAPTER XII TRAPSHOOTING AS AN AID TO field sport THE question is often asked
whether trap- shooting increases one's ability in ..."
2. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1859)
"There are, moreover, many reasons which render it almost impossible that fox-hunting
ever shall become an American field sport. In the Northern and Eastern ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"... as a field- sport and as a gambling game, for the true test of the integrity
of a field-sport is that no element of gain should enter into it. ..."
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