saucer vs sports equipment

saucer and sports equipment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saucer	Yes	No	No	No
sports equipment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sports equipment is a hypernym of saucer; that is, sports equipment is a word with a broader meaning than saucer:

Other hypernyms of saucer include disc, disk.

saucer (noun)	sports equipment (noun)
a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table	equipment needed to participate in a particular sport
a disk used in throwing competitions
directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate