field sport
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Many of the eight possible release areas have moorland used for driven grouse-shooting, a traditional field sport where red grouse, which golden eagles eat, are driven towards shooters by beaters.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Known as the fastest field sport on earth, hurling predates Christianity and is native to Ireland, possibly originating with the Celts.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2011
"Eventual elimination of wildfowling as a field sport in America is not an impossibility."
From Time Magazine Archive
Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon's field sport, has traveled no more than 100 yards, Nurmi broke the tape, broke also, by 9 2/5 seconds, a world's record.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is now the established favorite game of ball of the American people, and occupies a position in public estimation which no other field sport in vogue approaches.
From Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889 by Chadwick, Henry
