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beautiful game

noun

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese jogo bonito.

  1. derived from jogo bonito

Definitions

  1. association football

    association football; soccer.

    • Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
    • After watching Saturday's final, don't you agree that soccer is still the beautiful game that Pelé called it?

  2. ice hockey.

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