softball
IPA: sˈɔftbɔɫ
noun
- (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
- (sports) The ball used to play the sport.
- (by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer.
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Examples of "softball" in Sentences
- It was a softball of a question.
- A catcher of Saki's softball team.
- In 2004, the softball team won the.
- Comparison of baseball and softball.
- Comparison with softball and baseball.
- I mean softball...and college softball...
- Baseball and softball will be discontinued in 2012.
- The ball beeps and is a modified, and oversized, softball.
- Differences between regular softball and intramural softball.
- They are called The Benchwarmers and play competitively ASA softball.
- One daughter is going to Band Camp, the other is playing in softball tournaments, and the son is going to summer camp.
- Each summer, the "Bleacher Creatures" organize a round-robin softball tournament of four teams playing for the Ali Ramirez trophy.
- At a July 2005 meeting, IOC members voted 52-52, with one abstention, to cut softball from the Olympic program after the 2008 Games.
- Also, anent the dropping of baseball/softball from the Olympics, the ECONOMIST published this list of other sports that were dropped.
- The International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to drop baseball and softball from the Summer Games after this year's Beijing Games.
- Mike Candrea, the U.S. Olympic coach and University of Arizona head coach, expects such growth to be affected when softball is no longer in the Olympics.
- The rule in softball is the players can't lead off the base, however they can run and potentially steal bases as soon as the ball leaves the pitcher's hand.
- Regardless, this is really a case about nothing more than ringers in softball leagues, hardly a new phenomenon even if this case adds an additional wrinkle.
- No current Dem leader would threaten such a thing because under Washington rules, only manly Republicans are allowed to play hardball — for Democrats to play anything but softball is unseemly.