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==English==
==English==
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[[File:Bear hunting Kodiak FWS.jpg|thumb|Big game hunter with a [[bear]] head.]]
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===Noun===
===Noun===
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[[Image:Bear hunting Kodiak FWS.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Big game hunter with a [[bear]] head.]]
# Any [[large]] [[animal]] [[hunted]] for [[sport]].
# Any [[large]] [[animal]](s) [[hunted]] for [[sport]].
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Jamie Grierson|title=British big game hunters to be banned from bringing trophies home|work=The Guardian|date=2021-12-10|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/10/british-big-game-hunters-to-be-banned-from-bringing-trophies-home|issn=0261-3077|passage=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====
* {{l|en|small game}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|large animals hunted for sport}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|caça major|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|suurriista}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|caza maior|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|storvilt|n}}
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====See also====
====See also====
* [[elephant gun]]
* {{l|en|elephant gun}}
* {{l|en|Nitro Express}}
* {{l|en|trophy hunting}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Cambridge}}
* {{pedia|Big Game}}
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* {{pedia|big-game hunting}}
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* {{pedia|big five game}}

{{topics|en|Hunting}}

Latest revision as of 11:03, 18 July 2023

See also: Big Game

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Big game hunter with a bear head.

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big game (uncountable)

  1. 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[1], →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.

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