teamsport
English
Noun
teamsport (countable and uncountable, plural teamsports)
- Alternative form of team sport
- 2003, James C. Johnstone, Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire, page 87:
- My steady regular Janko the teamsport jock is the prime example.
- 2010, Eric Anderson, Adam White, Sport, Society and Social Problems: A Critical Introduction, page 71:
- However, there certainly is a tremendous amount of injury that is promoted, albeit not intentionally, in sport. This is not just in teamsport either.
- 2014, E. Anderson, 21st Century Jocks:
- The ubiquity of teamsport participation also means that there is a great deal of peer pressure, even if not direct, for other youths to play these “games.”
- 2016, Rory Magrath, Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football:
- Previous research on competitive male teamsports has typically found high levels of homophobia, creating a hostile environment for gay athletes (Bryant, 2001; Hekma, 1998; Pronger, 1990; Wolf-Wendel et al., 2001), which has predominantly manifested through the utility of homophobic language (Burn, 2000) and violence (Connell, 1995).