esport

From e- +‎ sport.

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esport (plural esports)

1. (video games) Alternative form of e-sport.
   • 2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee‎^[1], pages 9, 225‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 June 2025:

     While these esports are often framed as battles of mental strategies and mechanical skills, how players juggle their hundreds, or thousands, of simultaneously ticking clocks and timers defines their ability to succeed in cutthroat competitions. […] The most popular turn-based esport is the virtual card game Hearthstone.

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Borrowed from English sport.

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• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

esport m (plural esports)

1. sport (any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules)

   Synonym: deport

• “esport”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “esport”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “esport” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “esport” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English sport, from Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun).

esport

1. sport (any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules)