Words Like FOOTBALL

We have put together a list of words that are similar to FOOTBALL.

3 Alternative Words Similar to football

1 Ball Noun      Synonym Words Like Ball
2 Rugger Noun      Hyponym
3 Soccer Noun      Hyponym

1 examples of football

1 a political football

10 definitions of football

1 An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
2 The game played with a football{1}, by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different.
3 Soccer or rugby.
4 Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute.
5 any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
6 the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football
7 Sports A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end, the object being to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goal posts.
8 Sports The inflated oval ball used in this game.
9 Chiefly British Rugby.
10 Chiefly British Soccer.
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