dodgeball

See also: dodge ball

English

Etymology

dodge +‎ ball

Noun

dodgeball (countable and uncountable, plural dodgeballs)

1. A team sport whose main objective is to dodge or catch balls thrown by the opposition.
2. The ball thrown in this sport.

Translations

a sport

• Catalan: baló presoner m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 躲避球 (zh) (duǒbìqiú)

• Danish: høvdingebold c
• Finnish: polttopallo (fi)
• French: balle aux prisonniers (fr) f, ballon-chasseur m
• German: Völkerball (de) m
• Greek: μήλα (el) n pl (míla)
• Hungarian: kidobós
• Irish: seachain m
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• Japanese: ドッジボール (ja) (dojjibōru)
• Korean: 피구 (ko) (pigu; 避球)
• Norwegian: kanonball m
• Portuguese: queimada (pt) f
• Russian: вышиба́лы pl (vyšibály), доджбо́л m (dodžból)
• Spanish: balón prisionero m
• Swedish: spökboll (sv) c
• Turkish: yakartop (tr), yakantop (tr)
• Welsh: osgoi'r bêl m

See also

• suicide (children's game)
• tag (children's game)