football
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
foot + ball; may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet, or to the fact that games are played on foot, as opposed to on horseback.
[edit] Noun
football (countable and uncountable; plural footballs)
- (chiefly UK, uncountable) 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.
- Each team scored three goals when they played football.
- (US, uncountable) American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
- (Canada, uncountable) 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.
- They played football in the snow.
- (Australian, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football.
- (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.
- (Australian, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.
- (Australian, Ireland, New Zealand) rugby union
- (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- The player kicked the football.
- (uncountable) Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- (figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
- That budget item became a political football.
- (slang, countable) The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.
[edit] Synonyms
- ("football" in Britain):
- (all varieties of English): association football, soccer (all varieties of English), wogball (Australian racist slang)
- (British slang): footie
- ("football" in the US): (British) American football, (Australia) gridiron, gridiron football
- ("football" in Canada): (outside Canada) Canadian football
- ("football" in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia): footy, Aussie Rules, VFL (outdated), AFL
- ("football" in New South Wales and Queensland): footy, league
- ("football (association football)" in Australia): soccer
- (ball):
- (in all varieties of English and in all games called "football"): ball
- (Australia: in Aussie rules and rugby): footy, pill
- (Australia: in football (soccer)): soccerball
- (in US: American football): pigskin
[edit] Derived terms
terms related to "football"
[edit] Translations
British game
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US game
Canadian game
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game in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia
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game in New South Wales, Queensland
ball
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practise of any of these games
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[edit] See also
- Category:Football (Soccer) for a list of terms used in football/soccer.
Football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Football (word) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Football (word) Details of the word football in various parts of the world.
American football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:American football- Translations of football (soccer) terms
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From English.
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[edit] Noun
football m. (plural footballs)
- (Europe) soccer
- (Canada) Canadian football
- (less common) American football
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- (soccer): (colloquial) foot
- (soccer): (Quebec) soccer
- (American football): football américain
[edit] Interlingua
[edit] Etymology
From English.
[edit] Noun
football (uncountable)
- football (soccer)
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