beautiful game

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Calque of Portuguese jogo bonito.

Noun[edit]

the beautiful game

  1. (sometimes capitalized) association football; soccer.
    • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎[1]:
      Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
    • 1990 December 18, Fauzi Omar, “Cheers to Kedah But Not At All to Fifa”, in New Straits Times, Malaysia, page 32:
      After watching Saturday's final, don't you agree that soccer is still the beautiful game that Pelé called it?
  2. (Canada) ice hockey.
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