big game

See also: Big Game

English

Big game hunter with a bear head.

Noun

big game (uncountable)

Any large animal(s) hunted for sport.
- 2021 December 10, Jamie Grierson, “British big game hunters to be banned from bringing trophies home”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  The proposed law will prevent big game hunters from bringing home body parts of 7,000 species including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears. It comes two years after the government pledged to introduce a ban.

Antonyms

small game

Translations

large animals hunted for sport

Catalan: caça major f
Finnish: suurriista (fi)
Galician: caza maior (gl) f
Swedish: storvilt (sv) n

See also

Further reading

“big game”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Big Game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
big-game hunting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
big five game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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