Meaning

A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
2. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
3. (UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable) Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
4. (US, uncountable) American football: a game played on a field 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.
5. (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a field 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.
6. (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, southern New South Wales, uncountable) Australian rules football.
7. (Ireland, uncountable) 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.
8. (Australia, New Zealand) Any form of rugby.

Example Sentences

Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.

The player kicked the football.

Hans Moleman Production presents: Man getting hit by football.

The league said the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots used footballs that didn’t meet league specifications in the first half of the AFC championship game last Sunday.

“The coroner and the pathologist described how badly damaged my dad’s brain was,” his daughter Dawn told CNN in 2019. “He found that there was considerable evidence of trauma to the brain which he said was similar to the brain of the boxer. And he said that the main candidate for the trauma was heading the footballs.

Each team scored three goals when they played football.

“Our research has shown that heading is rare in youth football matches, so this guidance is a responsible development to our grassroots coaching without impacting the enjoyment that children of all ages take from playing the game.”

Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.

Word Forms

• footballs
• foot-ball
• foot ball
• footballing
• footballed

Synonyms for foot ball

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