FOOTBALL

Football

Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union, and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes.

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football

Noun

  1. 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 the US
    Each team scored three goals when they played football.
  2. American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
    Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
  3. Canadian football: a game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
    They played football in the snow.
  4. Australian rules football.
  5. 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.
  6. rugby league.
  7. rugby union
  8. The ball used in any game called "football".
    ''The player kicked the football.
  9. Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
  10. An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
    That budget item became a political football.
  11. The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.


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