softball

A softball.

A softball game.

English

Etymology

1926

Noun

Wikipedia

softball (plural softballs)

1. A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
2. (by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer.
3. The ball used to play the sport.

Translations

game

• Afrikaans: softbal, sagtebal
• Bulgarian: софтбол m (sóftbol)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壘球 (lěiqiú)

• French: balle-molle (fr) f, (Canada) balle molle f, softball (fr) m
• German: Softball m
• Irish: láimhe (ga) m

• Japanese: ソフトボール (ja) (sofutobōru), 塁球 (ja) (ruikyū)
• Korean: 소프트볼 (sopeuteubol)
• Latvian: softbols m
• Lithuanian: mažojo (lt) m
• Russian: софтбол m (softból)
• Spanish: sófbol m
• Vietnamese: bóng mềm

ball

• French: softball (fr) m

Synonyms

• diamond ball
• indoor baseball
• kitten ball
• mush ball
• pumpkin ball
• town ball

See also

• baseball
• rounders