I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a news/crime/sports reporter
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He started as a news reporter on Radio 1.
a news/movie/sports etc channel
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What’s on the movie channel tonight?
a sporting chance (= a fairly good chance )
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The proposals had at least a sporting chance of being accepted.
a sporting event
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Many of the weekend’s major sporting events were cancelled due to bad weather.
a sporting hero (= someone who people admire in a sport )
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Tiger Woods was his sporting hero.
a sporting/sports competition
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There is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
a sporting/sports competition
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There is an increasing demand to watch sporting competitions.
a sports bag
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I noticed that the man was wearing trainers and carrying a sports bag.
a sports car (= a low fast car )
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He was driving a red sports car.
a sports centre
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You could join exercise classes at your local sports centre.
a sports club
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Why don’t you join one of the school sports clubs?
a sports complex
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The sports complex also has six tennis courts.
a sports injury (= one you get while doing sport )
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She has vast knowledge of treating sports injuries.
a sports/football/basketball etc star
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Sam was a football star in college.
a teaching/acting/sporting career
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Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.
a team game/sport (= one that is played by teams )
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In those days, girls didn’t play team sports.
a travel/history/sports etc writer (= someone who writes articles and books about a subject )
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This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.
an education/health/sports etc correspondent
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Here is our sports correspondent with all the details.
blood sport
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a demonstration against blood sports
contact sport
economics/sports/political etc editor
election/sports/political etc coverage
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He claims the election coverage has been biased against him.
endurance sports/training (= designed to test or improve your endurance )
field sports
food/fashion/sports etc maven
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A food maven could also be called a gourmet.
golfing/sporting/racing etc calendar
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The Derby is a major event in the racing calendar.
intercollegiate athletics/sports etc
news/sports round-up
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our Friday sports round-up
spectator sport
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Life is not a spectator sport.
sport coat
sport jacket
sport shirt
sporting/camping/skiing etc equipment
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Can you help me load the camping equipment into the boot, please?
sporting/conference/concert etc venue
sports arena
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a sports arena
sports bra
sports car
sports centre
sports clothes
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Lou was wearing sports clothes and sunglasses.
sports clothing
sports coat
sports commentator
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a sports commentator
sports day
sports jacket
sports shirt
sports/exhibition/banqueting etc hall
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The school has a new sports hall.
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Five hundred people filled the lecture hall.
sports/sporting facilities
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Have you checked out the local sports facilities?
sports/sporting facilities
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Have you checked out the local sports facilities?
sports/style/business/travel etc section (= particular part of a newspaper )
talk sport/politics/business etc
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‘Let’s not talk politics now,’ said Hugh impatiently.
the arts/sports council
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The exhibition has been funded by the Arts Council.
the sports/arts/financial etc pages (= the part of a newspaper that deals with sport, art etc )
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He only ever reads the sports pages.
TV/sports etc addict
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My nephew is a complete video game addict.
water sports
winter sports
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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It's a good all-round sports car, and incredible value for money.
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It also has one of the best sports information centers on the Web.
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Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays.
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All in all, Fred was a good sport and said he enjoyed the meal.
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He found his best sport was - he tried to watch sports and tell people about them.
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As people have more leisure, they also need better facilities for sport .
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They offer some of the best sport shooting anywhere.
major
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These are sports sponsorship, major sports events, professional team sports, and sports broadcasting.
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Baseball is still the one major sport not sold on weight-lifting.
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Table 8.3 lists the major companies supplying sports clothing and footwear.
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There are only two major professional sports in which he would be considered undereducated: football and basketball.
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The other major items of sport-related consumers' expenditure are part of the non-sport commercial sector.
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The economic impact of major sports events is explored further in Chapter 10.
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Chapter 10 investigates the economies of major sports events.
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However, the growth of ambush marketing poses a clear danger to those involved in staging major sports events.
other
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Compared to other sports in the Soviet Union, rugby is a very poor game.
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And what other sport enables you to do the miraculous, to walk on water?
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In what other sports is a participant allowed a second chance because of failure?
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If football's not your game ... you can bank on a feast of other sports this holiday weekend.
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He was, however, very much an all-rounder, and football and curling were among the other sports he covered.
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Other than tennis courts and other sports facilities beyond the Lower Ocker Hill Branch the area is inauspicious.
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The ratcheted, rotating bezel sets the time limits for underwater and other action sports .
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Usually, as in other sports , a former rider.
popular
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Basketball is a popular sport at our school.
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Superficially, this is a sign of the continued buoyant growth and adaptability of football as the world's most popular sport .
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Boxing is a popular sport in the Army.
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I chose seven contrasting but popular sports , some I had played many times before, others representing new challenges.
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Few of the athletes, especially those in the most popular sports , lead ordinary lives away from the track or pool.
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Angling is the most popular sport in Britain because it is an excuse to do absolutely nothing for days on end.
professional
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Chess can never aspire to being a truly professional sport unless they are abolished.
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The groups can function like political campaigns or professional sports teams, carrying their own psychic rewards.
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These are sports sponsorship, major sports events, professional team sports, and sports broadcasting.
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Governments are operating professional sports teams and running venture capital funds.
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A pretty amateurish way to run a professional sport .
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He is the author of a dozen studies on the impact of stadiums and professional sports on metropolitan-area development.
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The company is also a major world-wide sponsor of professional team sports .
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Extreme gaps in compensation, while inevitable in professional sports today, can be fatal in business.
team
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These are sports sponsorship, major sports events, professional team sports, and sports broadcasting.
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In what amounts to the biggest trade in the history of team sports , not a single player changes cities.
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Significantly, however, this success story has little to do with the promotion of traditional team sports .
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The company is also a major world-wide sponsor of professional team sports .
■ NOUN
arena
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Heroes of sports arenas in their own country now found themselves working in small halls to audiences of 100-150 people.
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The bonds will be used to build a downtown sports arena .
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The big brick building, constructed in 1926, is the oldest campus sports arena still in use in the country.
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He sells his Turnstile Adsleeves to sports arenas , which rent the space to advertisers.
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Such a move could enhance the UMass image in academia much as its basketball team has done in the sports arena .
blood
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The centre actively campaigns to abolish blood sports and cares for sick foxes.
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Critics call cockfighting a blood sport .
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There is an aesthetic, if we can dignify it with that word, which distinguishes blood sports from each other.
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And in the end, it is all of us who allow this blood sport to flourish.
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An extreme example of Western attitude towards animals is the so-called blood sports , most of which have now died out.
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The ban on hunting has been welcomed by anti blood sports campaigners.
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This is the question of field or blood sports .
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Has the blood sports lobby lost the argument?
car
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Though high-pollution drivers often have old cars , the speed-obsessed owners of sports cars are equally guilty of environmental thoughtlessness.
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Many aging enthusiasts began to abandon sports cars for sport utilities.
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Currently its sole model is the Kallista, a sort of replica of a 1930s open-top sports car .
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Her small sports car trembled and swayed as the monster roared by.
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They were both notorious for racing up and down the Strip on their motorbikes or in flash sports cars .
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At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car .
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It was magnificently low-slung, almost like a sports car , but with four plush leather seats and a thrusting bonnet.
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This was the world's first sports car that didn't leave a puddle on your garage floor.
centre
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At the time I had a job as youth worker at a sports centre in Acton.
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Expert advice from a local gym or sports centre can be very helpful when you are starting with weights.
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Nigel also took up aerobics at his local sports centre .
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Joanna Grenside's car was found less than 100 yards from the sports centre where she was due to take a class.
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A large sports centre has been made at Aviemore, mainly for winter skiing but also for the use of summer tourists.
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Foam attack: Thieves broke into vending machines at Teesdale's new sports centre at Barnard Castle to steal £100 cash.
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If you feel energetic, you could join exercise classes at your local sports centre , village hall or other venue.
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The side was beaten 2-1 by the Ship Inn, of Swanage, in the final at the Purbeck sports centre .
club
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The majority of sports club income comes from two sources: membership subscriptions and fees, and bar profits.
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Sports tours by recreational sports clubs .
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In Britain, many voluntary sector sports clubs are receiving substantial grants from the Sports Lottery Fund to do the same thing.
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These excellent facilities are used by the University sports clubs for practice and for matches in the local leagues.
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The appeal follows the announcement of loans and grants totalling nearly £21,000 to parish councils, sports clubs and voluntary bodies.
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This section permits sports clubs to have alternative permitted hours in the winter where the sport is played out of doors.
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The aim is to provide a forum for sports clubs to advise Knowsley on improving services.
coat
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He always wears a sports coat and flannels and a pinned tie.
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The customer was wearing a sport coat with checks so large Fogarty thought of a horse blanket.
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The other in his 30's, with ginger hair and moustache and a tweed sports coat .
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Just trust me on this, and put your sport coat on.
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Also, he was wearing his new sport coat .
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Nichols sat stone-faced, dressed in a sport coat and blue shirt.
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We had a beatnik poet who wore salami patches on his tweed sport coat .
contact
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Male speaker Rugby is a contact sport .
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Wrestling was the competitive contact sport to boxing at the Y.. It was no match.
day
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They were so enthusiastic for these that its pupils regularly walked off with all the trophies on sports days .
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But, on prize-giving for sports day , they were always there.
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Except for a sports day once a year, their activities were limited to parading up and down.
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Footballs were kicked here, picnics and sports days held.
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You are pressed to attend a school sports day .
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The road to the County finals is tough with a number of elimination stages from school sports days through to district finals.
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He loved his blind boys, taught them how to play football, arranged sports days for them, took them swimming.
editor
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I decided not to put out a special homecoming issue and my sports editor cried.
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Back home, impatient sports editors waited for them to file as they drank the Latium hills dry of Chianti.
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Look at that sports editor over there - he's had four marriages and as many heart attacks.
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Our sports editor Tim Russon was with them at Wembley.
event
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It's a top-quality sports event .
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Myriad festivals, theatrical productions, musical concerts and sports events are scheduled year-round.
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The spectators may go to a specific sports event , or watch at a distance on television.
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It only happens at sports events .
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Expenditure on accommodation, food and drink dominates the economic impact generated by visitors to sports events .
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But it was Pete Rozelle who had the foresight to make it bigger and better than any other sports event .
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I now invite you to complete the enclosed form detailing your sports events for the second half of the year.
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It is now the most watched and most talked-about one-day sports event in the world.
facility
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High standards of food, sports facilities and entertainments.
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In the past, Lanier and Eckels have supported a referendum on construction of any sports facility .
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Ministers should also consider ways of improving sports facilities for youngsters living in inner cities, they claimed.
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The sports facilities were not only superb but were available to girls as well as boys.
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The Sport and Recreation Department offers some of the finest indoor sports facilities and outdoor playing fields in the province.
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These hotels provided musical afternoons, teas, bridge parties, lectures, dances, and sports facilities .
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Backing on to a Park - Rosemary Gardens - with sports facilities and playground.
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Other than tennis courts and other sports facilities beyond the Lower Ocker Hill Branch the area is inauspicious.
fan
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Lets face it, most of us are sports fans .
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As a result, sports fans are no longer limited by the reach of their radio antenna.
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No wonder so many sports fans blame television and corporate cash for the erosion of amateurism and the endless drug scandals.
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A sports fan might elect to have the latest sports scores continuously scrolling on to his screen.
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And the Internet is crawling with sports fans .
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Gary Healea was a sports fan in the original sense of the word: a fanatic.
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In many ways, though, this is a dream job for Barkley, a big sports fan .
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The clubhouse is packed with avid sports fans and foodies.
field
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As soon as anyone mentions field sports people direct their conversations to some one else.
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Or is it because they do not actually know what goes on at field sport events such as shooting?
goods
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The core of the sports industry is the sports goods sector: sports equipment, sports clothing, and sports shoes.
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The commercial sports sector consists of the sports goods sector and the sports services sector.
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Grampian plans to retain Patrick, a similar sports goods brand.
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Surridge retired from the first-class game in 1959 to concentrate on the family sports goods business.
hall
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South Cave school was opened in 1967, further extensions including a sports hall were completed in 1978.
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The sports hall of a public sector facility is used more for aerobics classes than was the case ten years ago.
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The burglars also sprayed the sports hall with fire foam.
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Facilities include a sports hall , a library and a prayer room.
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Most recreation facilities like swimming pools and sports halls are under their control.
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There is a separate sports hall with a 25m swimming pool, two squash courts and a gym.
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The pavilion and new sports hall at Bristol being prepared for the resumption of cricket in June.
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The campus' South Building houses recently refurbished Students' Union facilities and a minor sports hall .
jacket
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Jacket taken: A sports jacket worth £100 was stolen from a car at Cod Beck reservoir near Osmotherley.
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He was wearing blue-gray corduroy trousers, a sports jacket , no tie, lace-up shoes that had cost some money.
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They were both in their fifties - she in a tweed coat, he in a sports Jacket and flannels.
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He danced in slacks and sports jackets , wore white socks to call attention to his dancing feet.
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Cashmere sports jackets hung on the back of their chairs, insurance against an encounter with air-conditioning.
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He wore a brown sports jacket with a black roll neck sweater.
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The women took to old corduroys and sports jackets alongside their men folk.
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Harris tweed sports jacket , cavalry twill slacks.
medicine
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The development of sports medicine has been particularly rapid since the Second World War.
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Rather, it has become an increasingly important part of the task of practitioners of sports medicine .
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This aspect of the changing structure of sports medicine has, perhaps, been brought out most clearly by Hoberman.
page
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The cultural challenge is to move these stories from the sports page to the business page.
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Like the sports pages , each day the business pages of the newspaper list such averages.
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All Jack ever admitted to reading was the sports pages , and Polly had dreamt of politicizing him.
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Right now starts the 40-week period of sports page reading.
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There were eight sports pages and the football results.
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These tales are part of a sports underground-stories that athletes some-times tell each other but that rarely appear in the sports pages .
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The sports page was pretty dull.
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He saw the hair on the sports pages .
participation
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In countries where these activities are popular, they are normally included as sports in sports participation surveys.
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This high frequency of participation across a large number of sports is an important characteristic of sports participation.
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Another set of activities, which are physical but not competitive, are also often included in national sports participation surveys.
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However, up to now we have only considered the positive side of the relationship between sports participation and health.
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It is such injuries that make up the cost side of the balance sheet of the sports participation and health relationship.
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Questions on sports participation have been included, normally at 3-year intervals.
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Even in apparently well-integrated families, fathers exert only the smallest of influences on the child's sports participation .
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Respondents are asked about their sports participation behaviour over the past four weeks and over the past twelve months.
section
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Details of joining fees for the respective sports sections of the club may be obtained from the Personnel Department.
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First off, I must state, as always, I like the Star sports section .
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Basilio, whose busted face was on the front page of every pinned-up sports section in every barbershop in the city.
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Stanley Woodward ran the best sports section in town, if not the country.
shirt
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Gold bracelet, sports shirt , and a small crucifix dangled from a 24-carat chain round his throat.
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A guy in tattered cut-offs and garish sport shirt stands on a rock, brandishing a sword above his head.
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He was wearing jeans, a sports shirt and a cardigan.
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He was in white ducks, brown and white wing tips, and a yellow silk sport shirt .
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She could easily see the broadness of his shoulders underneath a tailored white sports shirt .
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Like the way he was dressed now, the corduroy suit pants and pink sport shirt and scuffed-up black shoes.
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Matthew had changed from his breeches into slacks and a blue check sports shirt .
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A chubby little man in a short-sleeved sport shirt and baggy gray twill pants came out the door.
spectator
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Sport may be taken too seriously; high-performance spectator sport is arguably too central to our lives already.
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Treasure Island could accommodate an athletic center for soccer, rugby and small-scale spectator sports .
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Mathematics is not a spectator sport .
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Marina took charge of Lucy, and she relaxed: Marina drawing people out was spectator sport .
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Like I said, it's a spectator sport .
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Rugby has become big business and a spectator sport .
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More than £1 billion is bet on greyhound racing each year in what is Britain's most popular spectator sport .
utility
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Toyota introduced its third generation 4-Runner mid-priced sport utility .
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Ford is offering a $ 2, 000 rebate on its Bronco sport utility vehicle.
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Type Front-engine, four-wheel-drive, five-passenger, luxury sport utility .
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Many aging enthusiasts began to abandon sports cars for sport utilities .
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It was a sport utility that was also a personal vehicle and it got good mileage.
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The intent of such monsters today is not simply to be bigger, sportier and more utilitarian than sport utilities .
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They see even more dollar signs ahead: There are now about 30 models of sport utility vehicles.
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Plus the most significant restyling since the Cherokee debuted as a compact sport utility vehicle in 1984.
water
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Local Activities: walks, leisure centre, water sports , golf.
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Local public health authorities and water sports authorities have issued warnings about the risk from Weil's Disease.
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All non-motorised water sports are free of charge.
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This provided accommodation and restaurant facilities for anglers, caravanners, backpackers and water sport enthusiasts.
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Beach and esplanade include croquet, tennis and water sports centre.
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But for those who choose arduous outdoor recreations like climbing, water sports and ski-ing this is particularly so.
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Quinta do Lago's 1,700 acres include golf courses, tennis courts, riding stables, water sports and strictly-controlled development.
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Chris liked the fishing and the water sport , provided free by the hotel.
winter
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In the summer, athletics, cricket and tennis take over from the winter sports .
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Snowmobiling is the Indy 500 of winter sports .
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And make absolutely sure the policy you buy covers you for winter sports and not just travel.
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The policy now includes 17 days' winter sports insurance free.
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It was winter sports , for heaven's sake, not an in-depth seminar on personal relationships!
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They come for the winter sports and the spectacular scenery.
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Its annual travel policy includes cover for up to 17 days of winter sports .
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Women's new-found physical freedom extended to other outdoor activities, particularly winter sports .
■ VERB
include
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In countries where these activities are popular, they are normally included as sports in sports participation surveys.
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Data subjects could include sports , stocks, weather, traffic, entertainment listings and narrower topics for specialized audiences.
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Barnhart was born and raised in Indiana, with an interest in many things, including music, sports and art.
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Another set of activities, which are physical but not competitive, are also often included in national sports participation surveys.
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Naturally, little has been left untouched by the high-tech world, and that includes outdoor sports .
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This varies by Club and can include sports tournaments, trips out for meals and separate excursions.
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Facilities include a sports hall, a library and a prayer room.
involve
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A true estimation of the resources involved in sport would include these unpaid labour services.
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At first he believed that if he coached him and got him involved in sports , Tim would improve.
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Insurance companies raise premiums by up to 100 p.c. for holidays involving dangerous sports .
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The number of households getting involved in the sport is growing more than ever, according to San Diego Surf Cup officials.
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Joan's been involved in disabled sport from its very beginning, at the Paraplegic Games at Stoke Mandeville in 1948.
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If a student is not involved in school sports , parents should encourage some type of exercise.
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Now 32, Becker has become involved in sports marketing since retiring from competitive tennis.
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I suggest that they are involved in the sport of shooting rather than in the art of ferreting.
play
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Voice over Reporter asks: What does it mean to you to be playing competitive sport ?
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It varies greatly in severity, with some children so mildly affected they can play sports .
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All boys were expected to play sport twice a week-here the manager directed my attention to the window.
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Beach says her generation, however, would rather visit with friends, play sports and watch television.
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Joining the Army at 17-and-a-half, the young Whittingham was really only interested in playing sport for fun.
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Later, when at grammar school, I played most sports with schoolboy verve.
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They spent more time working, exercising, and playing sports .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a TV/sports etc junkie
extreme sports/surfing/skiing etc
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The explosion of extreme sports in recent years has produced an unprecedented number of ultra-endurance races.
sporting chance (of doing sth)
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After all, you are meant to give the quarry a sporting chance.
television/sports/fresh-air etc fiend
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sport has always been very important in this part of the country.
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His favourite sports are swimming and tennis.
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I think everyone should do at least one sport , in order to keep fit.
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Minnie's been a real sport about all the houseguests.
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Motorcycle racing can be a dangerous sport .
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She's interested in cinema, music and sport .
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Soccer is Mark's favorite sport .
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Today's kids need to spend less time watching television, and more time playing sports.
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We don't do much sport at my school.
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Which sports do you play at school?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But first with the weekend's sport here's Tim Russon.
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Many sports are a form of disciplined warfare.
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The Sporting News recently had the nerve to name Woods the most powerful man in all of sports.
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The special place that they had enjoyed in traditional sports was much reduced.
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They include My Yahoo!, a Web site providing personalized news, weather and sports.
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Will the state promote sport as a safe, numbing kind of nationalistic cocoon for healthy, obedient citizens?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
now
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Number 7 was originally the monastic granary, now sporting a new frontage, put up around 1890.
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The land now sports a golf course and Hilton resort named Point at Tapatio Cliffs.
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One man now sports a mohawk whitened with peroxide.
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Almost all packaged foods now sport the Nutrition Facts label to help you make informed food choices.
■ NOUN
beard
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He had no razor of course, so he sported a straggly beard and moustache.
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Farag sports a three-day beard and has a bandage stretched across his forehead.
car
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But then most of the police - even the ones in cars - are sporting red noses for the occasion.
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And not just because the black-and-white car he drives sports a red light and siren.
event
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Television will bring these Olympics to a larger audience than any previous sporting event .
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Special events such as major sporting events or concerts cost up to thirty dollars to watch.
million
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The store cost $ 185 million to open, sporting custom-made furniture and a health club.
notion
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People who run countries have all too often fallen for the notion that sporting success somehow confers political legitimacy.
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It is a gut-level response, based on romantic notions about college sports .
shirt
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Arthur Smith, once a slender man, now was slender still except for the beach ball he sported under his shirt .
team
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A partnership is not a team sport .
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A singular individual talent in a man's game and a distinctive, willful group of women in a team sport .
winter
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The Mormon Lake area is a natural for winter sports .
woman
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A singular individual talent in a man's game and a distinctive, willful group of women in a team sport .
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Opposite Woman cyclist of 1898 sporting the latest in cycling fashion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Whales were spouting and sporting with each other.
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Will came back from his trip sporting a mustache and a beard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even fewer pull it off while sporting zoot suits.
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It seems that every police car is brand-new, and Hussein's soldiers sport crisp, new uniforms.
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The ancient gas refrigerator sports a screwdriver for a door handle.
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When it finally is released, the new Windows will sport some cool new features.