American football

English

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Proper noun

American football

1. A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.

Usage notes

• Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world.

Translations

American football

• Armenian: ամերիկյան ֆուտբոլ (hy) (amerikyan futbol)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美式足球 (zh) (Měi-shì zúqiú), 橄榄球 (zh), 橄榄球 (zh) (gǎnlǎnqiú)

• Czech: americký fotbal m
• Dutch: Amerikaanse voetbal n
• Esperanto: usona futbalo
• Estonian: ameerika jalgpall
• Finnish: amerikkalainen jalkapallo, (colloquial) jenkkifutis
• French: football américain (fr) m
• German: American Football (de) m

• Japanese: アメリカンフットボール (ja) (amerikanfuttobōru)
• Lithuanian: amerikietiškasis futbolas m
• Macedonian: американски фудбал m (amerikánski fúdbal)
• Norwegian: amerikansk fotball
• Portuguese: futebol americano (pt) m
• Romanian: fotbal american
• Russian: американский футбол (ru) m (amerikánskij futból)
• Spanish: fútbol americano m
• Swedish: amerikansk fotboll c
• Vietnamese: bóng bầu dục

See also

• Canadian football
• football
• gridiron
• rugby
• rugby football