Synonyms:
football, football_game
Meaning: 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
Synonyms:
football
Meaning: the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football
Usage examples
Now about the football game.
"You'll have to have better excuses than football and experiments."
If we can get these people to run about at football all will be well.
But this is true of football games and of most other rough and vigorous sports.
Why, how on earth do you train a football team except by practice?" demanded the Idiot.
"Think of the glory of winning a goal which sustains the football player through the toughest of fights.
What would we think of a football trainer who would try thus to account for the condition of his eleven at the end of a season?
"I'll tell you what we'll do to square ourselves," said David, smiling. "We'll take you girls to the football game next Thursday.
Altogether it was an exhausting pastime--fully equal to the American game of football, and only the young athlete could really enjoy it.
It was here, for example, in 1893, that Yale defeated Harvard at football, and the historic Pigskin which was used that day is still preserved intact.