water polo

See also: waterpolo, water-polo, and wáter-polo

English

A water polo match

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ) ˈpəʊləʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

water polo (uncountable)

1. A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponent's goal.

Translations

a water sport

• Arabic: كُرَة اَلْمَاء f (kurat al-māʔ)
• Armenian: ջրագնդակ (hy) (ǰragndak)
• Bulgarian: водна топка f (vodna topka)
• Carpathian Rusyn: во́дноє по́ло n (vódnoje pólo)
• Catalan: waterpolo (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水球 (zh) (shuǐqiú)

• Czech: vodní pólo n
• Danish: vandpolo (da) c
• Dutch: waterpolo (nl) n
• Esperanto: akvopilko
• Finnish: vesipoolo, vesipallo (fi)
• French: waterpolo (fr) m
• Galician: wáter-polo (gl) m
• Georgian: წყალბურთი (c̣q̇alburti), ვატერპოლო (vaṭerṗolo)
• German: Wasserball (de) m
• Greek: υδατοσφαίριση (el) f (ydatosfaírisi)
• Hungarian: vízilabda (hu)
• Irish: póló uisce m
• Italian: pallanuoto (it) f
• Japanese: 水球 (ja) (すいきゅう, suikyū), ウォーターポロ (ja) (wōtāporo)
• Kazakh: су добы (su doby)
• Korean: 수구(水球) (ko) (sugu), 워터 폴로 (woteo pollo)
• Macedonian: ватерполо (mk) n (vaterpolo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vannpolo m

• Polish: piłka wodna (pl), waterpolo (pl)
• Portuguese: polo aquático (pt) m
• Romanian: polo pe apă
• Russian: ватерпо́ло (ru) n (vatɛrpólo), во́дное по́ло (ru) n (vódnoje pólo)
• Serbo-Croatian: ватерполо n, vaterpolo (sh) m
• Slovene: vaterpolo (sl) m
• Spanish: polo acuático, waterpolo (es)
• Swedish: vattenpolo (sv)
• Turkish: su topu (tr)
• Ukrainian: водне поло (vodne polo)
• Yiddish: וואַסער־פּאָלאָ m (vaser-polo)

Further reading

• water polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• poolwater

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.tɛʁ pɔ.lo/

Noun

water polo m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of waterpolo