ground game

English

Noun

ground game (countable and uncountable, plural ground games)

1. (British, law, uncountable) Rabbits and hares
   • 1880, Ground Game Act‎^[1]:

     1. Every occupier of land shall have, as incident to and inseparable from his occupation of the land, the right to kill and take ground game thereon, concurrently with any other person who may be entitled to kill and take ground game on the same land.

2. (martial arts) Hand-to-hand combat in which both fighters are on the ground, or skill in such combat
3. (golf) Putting; hitting the ball along the ground
   • 1999, Harvey Penick & Bud Shrake, The Game for a Lifetime‎^[2], →ISBN, page 34:

     Most golf courses built in the 1980s went away from the old-fashioned ground game and forced players to hit the ball high.

4. (American football, countable) Running with the ball, rather than passing
5. (US, politics, countable) Local political organization

Further reading

• ground game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia