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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(humorous, mildly derogatory, sometimes ironic) Any sport, especially one involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying..
It may seem counterintuitive, but I hate watching sports in a sports bar. Sports bars are where other sportsball fans go, and generally speaking, I’m not really into sportsball fans, especially not a roomful of drunk and angry ones.
I don't know much about most sportsball teams, but hockey players seem to be the hottest. Who's your favorite?
To use a sportsball analogy that might be a metaphor, judicial oversight of executive institutions is roughly the equivalent of policing acts of foul play that could result in a player being ejected from the sportsball game, such as attempted decapitation […]
Use sportsball when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sportsball means (humorous, mildly derogatory, sometimes ironic) Any sport, especially one involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It may seem counterintuitive, but I hate watching sports in a sports bar. Sports bars are where other sportsball fans go, and generally speaking, I’m not really into sportsball fans, especially not a roomful of drunk and angry ones.
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