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Sports vs Competition - What's the difference?

sports | competition |

As nouns the difference between sports and competition

is that sports is while competition is competition.

sports

English

(wikipedia sports)

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    (sport plural) * air sports * disabled sports * parasports * sportscaster * water sports * watersports * winter sports

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sport)
  • (Reductive) To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. ("There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer", said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup).

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    competition

    English

    (wikipedia competition)

    Noun

  • (label) The action of competing.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (label) A contest for a prize or award.
  • The competitors in such a contest.

    • Antonyms

    * (action of competing) cooperation

    Derived terms

    * competitioner * economic competition

    Related terms

    * competitive