blood sport

/ˌblʌd ˈspɔrt/

Definitions of blood sport

1. noun

   sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)
   types:

   bullfighting, tauromachy

   the activity at a bullfight

   cockfighting

   participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight

   hunt, hunting

   the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

   battue

   a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter

   beagling

   hunting rabbits with beagles

   coursing

   hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent

   deer hunt, deer hunting

   hunting deer

   duck hunting, ducking

   hunting ducks

   fox hunting, foxhunt

   mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox

   pigsticking

   the sport of hunting wild boar with spears

   type of:

   athletics, sport

   an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition