Cockfighting is a blood sport involving roosters ("cocks"), held in a ring called a cockpit. The first documented use of the word gamecock, denoting use...

Cockfighter (also known as Born to Kill, Gamblin' Man and Wild Drifter) is a 1974 drama film by director Monte Hellman, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean...

Cockfighting (Seval Sandai in Tamil, Kodi Pandem in Telugu) in India primarily takes place in January, coinciding with Makara Sankranti. The practice is...

"Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" is an essay by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz included in the book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973)...

Between April 2021 and January 2022, 34 cockfight enthusiasts (locally called sabungeros) from areas of Luzon, Philippines, went missing. Of the missing...

would sometimes involve sacrificing a sacred rooster during a ritual cockfight to communicate with the gods. In Greek mythology, Alectryon was the guard...

raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population...

fighting"; it was often referred to derisively in the United States as "human cockfighting". Bateman, Oliver Lee (July 6, 2018). "The Early Years of MMA Were a...

Cockfighter (1796–1807) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1799. In a racing career which...

"Wa'ney Island Cockfight" or "The Bonny Grey" is an English folk song, Roud 211. Variants of the song exist across northern England from Cumbria to Shropshire...