chessboxing

/ ˈtʃɛsˌbɒksɪŋ /

noun

1. a sport in which participants contest alternating rounds of chess and boxing, of four and two minutes respectively

Example Sentences

UKIP's Jonathan Arnott will take on a Lib Dem activist at "chessboxing" which sees opponents fighting in the ring and then on the chess board.

From BBC

London’s 2008 resurgence of chessboxing – intertwining rounds of chess and boxing – gained worldwide coverage and accumulated a live audience of over 35,000, while the website chess.com celebrated its billionth game back in December 2014.

From The Guardian

Chess + boxing = Chessboxing In 1978, South London teenagers James and Stewart Robinson opened the first chessboxing club, but the sport all but disappeared until the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan recorded Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ in 1993.

From BusinessWeek

Twenty-seven-year-old Shailesh Tripathi from Mumbai became the first-ever Indian participant at the World Chessboxing Championship held in Moscow on 28 November.

From BBC

Twenty-seven-year-old Shailesh Tripathi from Mumbai became the first-ever Indian participant at the World Chessboxing Championship held in Moscow on 28 November.

From BBC