"spectator sport" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "spectator sports",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953 October 5, “Yonkers Doodle”, in Time",
          "text": "Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sporting activity which has a relatively high ratio of watchers to direct participants."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "sporting",
          "sporting"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "watcher",
          "watcher"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "participant",
          "participant"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "54 15 30",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sporting activity with high number of spectators",
          "word": "yleisöurheilu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "54 15 30",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "sporting activity with high number of spectators",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "åskådarsport"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Muriel Clara Bradbrook, My Cambridge, page 120",
          "text": "Politics for me was strictly a spectator sport.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 January 6, David Randall, “Britney Spears, one-woman disaster zone, leaves hospital after two days”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2009-08-31",
          "text": "The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in."
      ],
      "id": "en-spectator_sport-en-noun-snH52ImD",
      "links": [
        [
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          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "observation",
          "observation"
        ],
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          "prefer",
          "prefer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 22 44",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
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            "Human activity",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 1, Brian Dakss, “Expert Offers Basics On What Some Call Nation's No. 1 Spectator Sport”, in CBS News, retrieved 2009-08-31",
          "text": "Thompson, who's the digest's publisher, says bird watching is a hobby, a pastime and a spectator sport that can be enjoyed anywhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Andrew Savva, Trisomy 13, page 112",
          "text": "Rubbernecking is only a spectator sport.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An activity which consists of watching or observing."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) An activity which consists of watching or observing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spectator sport"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Sports"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spectator sports",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1953 October 5, “Yonkers Doodle”, in Time",
          "text": "Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sporting activity which has a relatively high ratio of watchers to direct participants."
      ],
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        [
          "sporting",
          "sporting"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "watcher",
          "watcher"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "participant",
          "participant"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Muriel Clara Bradbrook, My Cambridge, page 120",
          "text": "Politics for me was strictly a spectator sport.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 January 6, David Randall, “Britney Spears, one-woman disaster zone, leaves hospital after two days”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2009-08-31",
          "text": "The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "observation",
          "observation"
        ],
        [
          "prefer",
          "prefer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 1, Brian Dakss, “Expert Offers Basics On What Some Call Nation's No. 1 Spectator Sport”, in CBS News, retrieved 2009-08-31",
          "text": "Thompson, who's the digest's publisher, says bird watching is a hobby, a pastime and a spectator sport that can be enjoyed anywhere.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Andrew Savva, Trisomy 13, page 112",
          "text": "Rubbernecking is only a spectator sport.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An activity which consists of watching or observing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "consist",
          "consist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) An activity which consists of watching or observing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sporting activity with high number of spectators",
      "word": "yleisöurheilu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sporting activity with high number of spectators",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "åskådarsport"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spectator sport"
}