How to Use team sport in a Sentence

team sport

noun
  • That’s team sport, and that’s our goal.
    — Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • This is a team sport and nothing can get in the way of the team.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Basketball is a five-on-five sport, a team sport.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • No team sport is quite so obsessed by the colour of the ball as cricket.
    — Matt Roller, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Durant now has four gold medals, the first male athlete to win four golds in a team sport.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Try playing a team sport or joining a club, which can have the same effect.
    — Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That’s the best part in team sports, and hockey is a really hard team sport.
    — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Curling is a team sport – either men’s, women’s or mixed – played on ice.
    — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Think of this as a team sport rather than an individual event.
    — Nancy Armour, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Because the work of protecting the public’s health is a team sport.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 26 July 2023
  • Health care is a team sport, and data describes the performance of those teams over time.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
  • American kids could once again play their country’s oldest team sport!
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Football is a team sport that is won or lost by the team, not an individual.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Improv is a team sport Improv is a lot less about performing than meets the eye.
    — Kayleigh Ruller, Charlotte Observer, 6 May 2024
  • Our visions didn’t align and relationships are supposed to be a team sport.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Our visions didn’t align and relationships are supposed to be a team sport.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This team will be viewed as pioneers for a school that had never reached a state championship game in any team sport.
    — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
  • In a team sport there still can be individual moments that do not detract from the greater good.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Even in baseball—a team sport built on individual matchups—gear changes are measured.
    — John Cairney, Sportico.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Musselman views football as the greatest team sport and the one that requires sacrifice.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
  • These business leaders would agree with Faulkner’s insistence that cycling is a team sport.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In the ultimate team sport, Justin Herbert remains a one-man offense.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
  • One, officials don’t believe inconsistently short pants look good in a team sport.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Theater is a team sport that demands radical empathy.
    — Julie Ruth Owen, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • It's become a common trope, though, that cybersecurity is a team sport.
    — Robert Wood, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Taub does note that Olympians are not totally at a disadvantage to their team sport counterparts.
    — Daniel Kaplan, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Baseball is a team sport — of individuals mostly out for themselves.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Professional road cycling is a team sport, dominated by star names.
    — Andy McGrath, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • However, at least some effort is being made to tweak the behaviors of your teammates in the ultimate team sport.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • As a youngster in school, his first team sport was rugby union, with cricket only a developing interest.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 21 May 2026

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