professional sports
Elite competitive leagues
Professional sports are athletic competitions in which participants are paid to play, distinguishing them from amateur athletics.
The term encompasses leagues, teams, and individual athletes who compete for compensation: He dreamed of playing professional sports.
Professional sports generate revenue through ticket sales, broadcasting rights, merchandise, and sponsorships, making them both athletic enterprises and major commercial industries.
- playoffsChampionship elimination series
- big leaguesTop professional level
- boxingCombat sport using fists
- game dayScheduled sporting event
- baseballBat-and-ball team sport
football · rugby · soccer · broadcasting · prime time · draft picks · trade deadline · hall of fame · luxury tax · league · contracts · ice hockey · free agency · signing bonus · season tickets · salary caps · national teams · collective bargaining
- sports typesmartial arts
- physical educationPE, gym class, PE class, physical education, physical training
- exclusionsexclude, exclusion, excluding, except, exception
professional sportsamateur sports
Non-professional athletic activities
amateur athletics · amateur leagues · recreational sports · club sports · intramural sports
professional sportsrecreational sports
Non-professional physical pastimes
pickup games · intramural sports · playground games · street ball
professional sportsesports
Professional video game competitions
board games · video games · performing arts · intellectual pursuits · fine arts
sport, sports, sporting, professional, profession, professionalism, sporty, sportsman, unprofessional