sports team

Players in uniforms

A sports team is a group of players organized to compete together in athletic contests.

Teams typically share a name, uniform, and identity: Which sports team do you support?

The term covers professional franchises, college programs, and amateur clubs alike.

Loyalty to one's sports team often runs deep, becoming part of personal and regional identity.

Opposites
collective vs. individual competition

sports teamsingles player

Athlete competing alone

individual sport · one-man show · soloist · free agent

organized athletic entity vs. unorganized activity

sports teampickup game

Spontaneous informal athletic contest

spectator · fan · couch potato · street ball · weekend warrior

athletic vs. non-athletic organization

sports teambook club

Group discussing shared literature

academic team · orchestra · debate team · chess club

Family

sport, team, sports, teams, sporting, sportive, sporty, sported, sportsman

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