beautiful game

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beautiful game

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Calque of Portuguese jogo bonito.

noun the beautiful game

  1. capitalized, sometimes Association football; soccer. 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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"beautiful game." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/beautiful%20game. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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beautiful game. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/beautiful%20game

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"beautiful game." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/beautiful%20game.

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@misc{beautiful_game_2026,
  title = {beautiful game},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beautiful%20game},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}