esportn.
/ˈiːspɔːt/, U.S. /ˈiˌspɔrt/ A multiplayer electronic or video game competition organized as a spectator sport, typically involving professional contestants and watched by viewers online (frequently in plural). Also: such games or competitions collectively.
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1999 PR Newswire (Nexis) 9 Sept. (Financial News section) We're launching i2e2 to take gaming to a new level in what we call eSports.
2003 Guardian 23 Oct. (Life section) 23/5 We wanted to show that e-sport was really strong in Germany.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. ii. 32/3 Mr. Woo of the federal game institute estimated that 10 million South Koreans regularly follow eSports, as they are known here, and said that some fan clubs of top gamers have 700,000 members or more.
2014 New Yorker 24 Nov. 93/3 Morhaime is thought to be committed to keeping StarCraft, the founding e-sport, alive as a passion project.
2021 Scotsman (Nexis) 23 Mar. Discord was publicly released in May 2015, and quickly became widely used by esports and tournament gamers as a communications tool.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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