1 a sport that people go to watch:
Swimming is a popular form of recreation but not a popular spectator sport.
Does he agree that hare coursing is particularly obnoxious—perhaps even more so than other blood sports—because it is a spectator sport?
The second is to say that democracy is no spectator sport.
It was an occasion staged for the cameras, and all part of turning us into a kind of spectator sport.
Visiting slaughterhouses has no future as a spectator sport.
It seems to me that the ceremony should be more than a mere spectator sport.
I believe that all of us here this evening would agree with the statement that politics is not a spectator sport.
There was a time when it was a great national spectator sport.
Football is our national spectator sport, and it is therefore essential to find a long-term, sustainable solution.