football
IPA: fˈʊtbɔɫ
noun
- (general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
- (UK, uncountable) Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
- (US, uncountable) American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, southern New South Wales, uncountable) Australian rules football.
- (Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
- (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, uncountable) rugby union.
- (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- (uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- (figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
- (US military slang, countable) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
verb
- (intransitive, rare) To play football.
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