Sentence examples for sporting pursuit from inspiring English sources

The phrase "sporting pursuit" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a specific hobby or activity that involves physical exercise or competition. This phrase is often used when describing leisure activities that involve a level of skill, athleticism, or strategy. Example: His favorite sporting pursuit was playing pickup basketball with his friends at the park every weekend.

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In this and much else, Goya was also following Velasquez, who portrayed an earlier monarch in the same sporting pursuit.

A tennis crowd is still not the same as a soccer crowd in Serbia, even if the Serbians — who once considered tennis a minor sporting pursuit — are increasingly proud of becoming a tennis superpower.

However much the pro-hunt lobby tries to frame this as an issue of personal freedom, most people are quite rightly repulsed by the idea of animals being made to suffer and die for what is effectively just a niche sporting pursuit.

In this regard, specialisation in order to achieve a high level of performance in a sporting pursuit involves the standardisation of training methods so as to bring about structural and neural adaptations properly aligned with the inherent demands of the activity to be performed and the position assigned to the player.

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The suit still bears the marks of this turbulent past as well as the influence of Enlightenment thinking, sporting pursuits and a Regency dandy.

Here at the Malahide club, preparing to make his one-day debut against Ireland on Friday, could be England's equivalent in 23-year-old Sam Billings, the explosive Kent wicketkeeper-batsman who has similarly chosen a career in cricket despite his own upbringing of varied sporting pursuits.

Consequently, in the Bay where tech riches have increasingly transformed the fabric of the area's cultural underpinnings, these cheaper pursuits often compete with expensive hobbies like foodieism, wine collecting, traveling, second homes and expensive sporting pursuits.

Positive media coverage of women's sporting pursuits is vital for women to have a seat at the "sports" table.

Bradman left school in 1922 and went to work for a local real estate agent who encouraged his sporting pursuits by giving him time off when necessary.

His other sporting pursuits included Australian football and baseball: Chappell's performances for South Australia in the Claxton Shield won him All-Australian selection in 1964 and 1966 as a catcher.

It's the land of "gentlemen" and "players", the land where to be paid for your sporting pursuits, or even for your work, was, until relatively recently, not quite the done thing.

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