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e-sports

noun

Etymology

From e- + sports.

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “to lead, pass over”
  2. derived from deportāre
  3. derived from portāre
  4. derived from dis-
  5. derived from desporter — “to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”
  6. inherited from sporten — “to divert, disport”
  7. formed as sports — “sport + -s”
  8. prefixed as e-sports — “e + sports”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of esports.

    • The effect on traditional sports is just one of the concerns often expressed about this phenomenon. The proliferation of e-sports conjures images of children eating sugary snacks late into the night as they stare at their screens.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for e-sports. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA