kemari

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 蹴鞠, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Chinese 蹴鞠 (cùjú)

Noun

kemari (uncountable)

1. An ancient Japanese ball game, still played in modern times, in which players cooperate to try to keep a deerskin ball in the air.

See also

• cuju

Anagrams

• Markie, ramkie

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Japanese

Romanization

kemari

1. Rōmaji transcription of けまり