The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BADMINTON
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result BADMINTON
- Unsatisfactory porcelain for activity in court
- Hopeless potter in game
- Horse trials venue using inferior porcelain?
- Poor side in cricket going about brand new game
- Pottery linked to low quality which is played out in court
- I’m not playing with band – it entails a racket!
- Blair mostly gets behind poor minister for sport
- Graduate lecturer pockets big profit from game
- Ashamed to make money playing sport
- Game, something passed around troubled mind
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The straight part
We know that "sport" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sport = badminton.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BADMINTON mean?
BADMINTON noun- A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
- A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar and soda water.