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Definition of Football game
1. Noun. 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.
Examples of category: Punt, Punting, Place Kick, Place-kicking, Dropkick, Fake, Juke, Football Score, Kickoff, Professional Football, Yard Marker, Midfield, Back, Ball Carrier, Runner, Center, Snapper, End, Fullback, Halfback, Forward Passer, Passer, Place-kicker, Placekicker, Punter, Field General, Quarterback, Signal Caller, Running Back, Rusher, Split End, Tailback, Tight End, Wingback, Winger, Quarter, Line Up, Fullback, Quarterback, Place-kick, Kick, Complete, Nail, Tackle, Drop-kick, Dropkick, Drop-kick, Dropkick, Ground, Return, Broken-field, Completed, Uncompleted, Running, Pass, Passing, Ball-hawking
Generic synonyms: Contact Sport, Field Game
Specialized synonyms: American Football, American Football Game, Professional Football, Rugby, Rugby Football, Rugger, Association Football, Soccer
Terms within: Half
Derivative terms: Footballer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Football Game
Literary usage of Football game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Community Life and Civic Problems by Howard Copeland. Hill (1922)
"... so he cannot be heard, who enters the room late, who makes unnecessary noise
or in any A football game Team play is essential to success in football. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1903)
"If at a great football game any one will watch the spectators instead of the players,
... The spectators at an exciting football game no longer attempt to ..."
3. Everyday Arithmetic by Franklin Sherman Hoyt, Harriet E. Peet (1920)
"At the football game (1) There are 220 boys at a football game. 98 leave to catch
an early train. How can the number of boys that are left on the grounds be ..."
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