bullfighting

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Alternative forms

• bull-fighting

Noun

bullfighting (uncountable)

1. A performance art popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range.
   • 2007, Wikipedia:Cattle:

     In Portugal, Spain, Southern France and some Latin American countries, bulls are used in the sport of bullfighting.

Synonyms

• tauromachy (formal), bullfight

Translations

a sport popular in Spain and Mexico

• Armenian: ցլամարտ (hy) (c’lamart)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公牛戰鬥 (cmn), 公牛战斗 (cmn) (gōngniú zhàndòu), 鬥牛 (cmn), 斗牛 (cmn) (dòuniú)

• Dutch: stierenvechten (nl) n
• Finnish: härkätaistelu (fi)
• French: tauromachie (fr) f, corrida (fr) f
• German: Stierkampf (de)
• Greek: ταυρομαχία (el) (tauromachía)
• Hebrew: מלחמת שוורים (he) (milkhemet shvarym) f

• Hungarian: bikaviadal (hu)
• Italian: toromachia f, corrida (it) f
• Japanese: 闘牛 (ja) (とうぎゅう, tōgyū), 雄牛の戦い (ja) (おうしのたたかい, oushi-no tatakai)
• Korean: 황소 싸움 (ko) (hwangso ssaum)
• Latin: tauromachia (la) f
• Maltese: ġlieda tat-toru
• Romanian: coridă (ro) f
• Russian: бой быков (ru) (boj bykóv) m, коррида (ru) (korrída) f
• Spanish: toreo (es) m, tauromaquia (es) f, corrida de toros (es) f
• Swedish: tjurfäktning (sv) c

See also

• Wikipedia article on Bloodless bullfighting
• Wikipedia article on bullfighting