foosball

English

A foosball table.

Etymology

From German Fußball, itself a calque of English football.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuːsˌbɔːl/, /ˈfuːzˌbɔːl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

foosball (uncountable)

1. (chiefly US, Canada) table soccer (US), table football (UK)
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     […] Caleb on Tuesday, for the first time in months, had invited him to play foosball […]

Translations

table soccer

• Catalan: futbolí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桌上足球 (zhuōshàng zúqiú)

• Czech: stolní fotbal m, stolní fotbálek m (colloquial), kalčo (regional)
• Danish: bordfodbold c
• Dutch: tafelvoetbal (nl) m
• Finnish: pöytäfutis
• French: baby-foot (fr) m, baby (fr) m
• Galician: futbolín m
• German: Tischfußball (de) m, Kicker (de) m, Krökeln n (parts of northern Germany), Wuzzler m (Austria), Töggelen n (Switzerland)

  Alemannic German: Töggele

• Hebrew: כדורגל שולחן (he) m (kaduregel shulkhan)
• Hungarian: csocsó (hu)
• Irish: peil bhoird f, peil tábla f
• Italian: calcio-balilla (it) m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 테이블 축구 (teibeul chukgu), 테이블 풋볼 (teibeul putbol)
• Mongolian: ширээний хөлбөмбөг (šireenii xölbömbög)
• Polish: piłkarzyki (pl) nvir, trambambula (pl) f
• Portuguese: futebol de mesa m, matraquilhos m pl (Portugal), pebolim (pt) m (Brazil), totó (pt) m (Brazil), fla-flu (pt) m (Rio Grande do Sul), matrecos m pl (Portugal)
• Russian: ки́кер (ru) m (kíker), насто́льный футбо́л m (nastólʹnyj futból)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стони фудбал m

  Roman: stoni fudbal m, stolni nogomet m

• Spanish: futbolín m, futillo m, (Mexico, Uruguay) futbolito m, (Chile) tacataca (es) f, (Argentina) metegol m
• Swedish: bordsfotboll c
• Thai: ฟุตบอลโต๊ะ (fóotbon dtó)
• Turkish: langırt (tr)
• Ukrainian: кі́кер m (kíker), насті́льний футбо́л m (nastílʹnyj futból)
• Vietnamese: bi lắc (vi), banh bàn
• Welsh: pêl-droed pen bwrdd m