Football
Word | FOOTBALL |
Character | 8 |
Hyphenation | foot ball |
Pronunciations | [fʷʊʔt̚bɑɫ] |
Definitions and meanings of "Football"
What do we mean by football?
A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goalposts at either end, the object being to gain possession of a ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goalposts. noun
The inflated oval ball used in this game. noun
Rugby. noun
Soccer. noun
The ball used in Rugby or soccer. noun
A problem or issue that is discussed among groups or persons without being settled. noun
A ball consisting originally of an inflated bladder, now of a hollow globe of india-rubber or of heavy canvas saturated with rubber, cased in leather, round or oval in shape, and designed to be driven by the foot in the game called by the same name. See def. 2. noun
A game played with such a ball by two parties of players on a level plot of ground, at each end of which is a goal through or beyond which the players strive to drive the ball. noun
Figuratively, an object or a person subjected to hard usage or to many vicissitudes or changes of condition: as, he was the foot-ball of fortune. noun
An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. noun
The game played with a football{1}, by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different. noun
Soccer or rugby. noun
Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute. noun
Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in the US noun
American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. noun
Canadian football: a game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. noun
Australian rules football. noun
Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball. noun
(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
(Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory) Australian rules football.
Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
(New South Wales) rugby league.
Rugby union.
The ball used in any game called "football".
Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
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