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(basketball) A thrown ball that misses the basket, and completely fails to touch the net or supporting hoop.
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(slang, countable, humorous, derogatory) The ball used to play American football.
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(badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
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(uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
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Any game played with a ball.
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(obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
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Taking part in ball games; being a ballplayer.
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(historical) An old game resembling hockey.
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A carnival game in which the player is challenged to bounce a ball off an angled board so that it lands in a basket.
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(countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
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Any of various forms of pelota, a court sport, played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall or over a line or net against another team.
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(countable) The ball used to play this sport.
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In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
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(golf) The fourball golf format, especially a variation involving teams of three or four players.
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(uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
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A variant of the sport of pushball, traditionally played by students of Yale University.
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A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.
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(nonstandard, humorous) volleyball.
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One of the bowls used in the French game of boules.
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A pool game that borrows aspects of tenpin bowling.
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Any of various informal ball games or sports played with boxes, or in a box-shaped court.
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(countable) The ball used in this sport.
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An informal sport resembling basketball, with the fixed baskets replaced by buckets held by players who must move them to catch the thrown ball.
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(Canada, US) A playground game based around throwing a ball against a wall and catching it on the rebound.
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A game, similar to pool and played with pool balls, played in a long, high-walled table. Each player gets five balls to arrange however they want at their end of the table, and they take turns trying to knock each other's balls into troughs at each end of the table. The player who knocks down all five of the other player's balls first is the winner.
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(tennis) A court whose surface is made of crushed shale, stone or brick.
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A sport, combining elements of golf and football, in which a rubber ball is repeatedly kicked from a marked area until it is successfully sunk into a bowl.
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(countable) A croquette.
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A game in which darts are thrown at a large board resembling a baseball field with areas denoting bases.
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(ball games) The ball when dead and out of play.
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Alternative form of dodgeball [A team sport whose main objective is to dodge or catch balls thrown by the opposition.]
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(tennis) Describing a tennis ball having a thicker felt woven more loosely around the ball's core, designed for hard court surfaces such as asphalt or concrete.
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A European sport in which players attempt to hit a ball over a net with fists or arms.
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(chiefly Britain) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
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(sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
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A variant of dodgeball played inside a fenced area, usually a hexagon or octagon.
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(countable) The ball used in this game.
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Alternative form of game ball [The ball that is used to play a sport.]
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(countable) The ball used in the sport
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An ancient Russian folk sport of trying to knock arrangements of skittles out of a square by throwing a bat at them.
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pertaining to a grass tennis court
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(tennis) The use of groundstrokes.
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(countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
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(slang, countable, humorous) The ball used to play such a game.
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An ancient Mesoamerican ball game where the ball was kept in play by striking it with the hip.
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(soccer, derogatory) A style of play characterised by many long balls and few short passes.
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(tennis, sometimes derogatory) A deliberately slow shot.
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(uncountable, obsolete or dialect) The game of skittles or ninepins.
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Alternative form of kerby (“ball game”) [(British) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.]
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(British) A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the ball against the opposite kerb and catch it on the rebound.
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A Southeast Asian sport, similar to volleyball, but using a rattan ball that players may only strike with their feet, knee, chest, and head.
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An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
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(UK, archaic) The game of tenpins.
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(countable) The ball used in the sport of korfball.
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(informal, humorous, derogatory) A supposed game consisting of pedantic legal wrangling.
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(uncountable) A ball sport played over a net by two teams of five players on a rectangular court.
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(games) A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
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A simplified form of volleyball for young children.
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(historical) A game based on basketball and badminton that later developed into volleyball.
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(tennis) A medium-high offensive lob hit with topspin.
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Alternative letter-case form of Muggle quidditch [An intercollegiate sport based on Quidditch, with the rules adapted for playing on the ground.]
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(countable) The ball used in this sport.
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(tennis) Any of a set of replacement tennis balls issued at specified times in the professional game.
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(countable) The ball used in the game of patball.
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Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.
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Alternative spelling of pickleball [(uncountable) A racquet sport, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis.]
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Alternative spelling of pickleball [(uncountable) A racquet sport, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis.]
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(games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
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A ball for use in games.
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A goal game combining elements of polo, lacrosse, and netball, played by teams of six players mounted on horseback and using a sponge rubber ball and a stick with a head like a cross and a handle and shaft like those of a polo stick.
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The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
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The soft ball used in this sport.
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(uncountable) A team game where players attempt to push a large inflatable lightweight ball into the opponent's goal.
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Alternative spelling of racquetball [(uncountable) A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball.]
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(uncountable) A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball.
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a game for two or four players, played in an enclosed court with a small hard fast-moving ball
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(tennis) Describing a tennis ball having a thinner felt woven more tightly around the ball's core, designed for softer court surfaces such as clay.
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A game in which players attempt to keep a ball in play by alternately bouncing it off a sloping roof.
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(US) A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface.
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A type of juggling ball with a hard, shiny outer shell, filled with sand or another filler material, and designed to be more visible than beanbags.
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(tennis) A player who plays in a serve and volley style
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To chase after; especially, to chase after and return (a ball) hit usually out of play.
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A traditional Filipino team sport in which players kick a soft ball over a net in the middle of the court.
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(uncountable) A team sport in which players attempt to knock over the opposing team's skittle by throwing a ball.
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Alternative spelling of sliotar [a hard ball, similar in size to a baseball, used in hurling]
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(uncountable, sports) An Egyptian racquetsport.
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(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
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A small rubber ball used in the game of squash.
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A four-walled court used for playing squash.
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A type of bat used to hit the ball in the game of squash.
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The ball used in this game.
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An old country game, similar in some respects to cricket and rounders, and chiefly played by young men or women at Eastertide.
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(games) A game played by bouncing a ball off a step or stoop.
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A form of tetherball involving a tethered sponge ball or tennis ball hit with racquets.
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(sports, games) a game/sport similar to paintball, where one tags out opponents with rubber balls fired from air pistols or paintball guns, without the mess of paint, akin to dart tag
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(sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
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The ball in the sport of tetherball.
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An Asian ball sport played over a net by two teams of seven players on a rectangular court.
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(darts) The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field
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(computing) Alternative form of trackball [(computing) A pointing device consisting of a ball housed in a socket]
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An old game played with a levered wooden trap by means of which a small ball is launched into the air so as to be struck by a player with a bat. The aim is to hit the ball furthest, either in one or several turns.
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(UK, Australia, games) A children's game in which players stand in line with their feet apart, making a tunnel with their legs, down which the lead player propels a ball back to the last player, who runs with it to the front of the line and repeats; played competitively between teams for speed, or by a single team for recreation or exercise.
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(sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
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(uncountable) A game played on a rectangular court between two teams of two to six players which involves striking a ball back and forth over a net.
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A particular ball sport in which the ball is thrown against the wall
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(countable) The ball used in this sport.
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The lightweight bat used in the game of wiffleball
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