Team-sport synonyms

canadian-football

A game played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

basketball

A game played by two opposing teams of usually five players on a rectangular, often wooden, court with a raised basket at each end: points are scored by tossing or throwing a ball through the basket at the opponent's end

canoe polo

cricket

(Chiefly UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.

curling

A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).

cycle polo

field-hockey

A form of hockey played on a grassed pitch with a hard rubber ball instead of a puck.

football

Soccer.

hurling

An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.

ice-hockey

A form of hockey played on an ice rink with a puck rather than ball.

korfball

(Countable) The ball used in the sport of korfball.

netball

A women's sport derived from basketball.

polo

(Uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.

rugby

A kind of football popular in England, played by two opposing teams of usually 15 players: action is continuous and the oval ball may be passed laterally or backward, kicked forward, or carried: a forerunner of American tackle football, first played at Rugby school

soccer

Soccer is a sport played by teams of eleven people trying to get a ball into the other team's net by using any part of their body except arms or hands.

softball

The ball used to play the sport.

speedball

(Uncountable) A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball.

team handball

A game played between two teams of seven players each, the object being to throw the ball into a hockeylike goal at either end of the rectangular court. The ball is moved by dribbling and passing with the hands.

ultimate-frisbee

A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end-zone.

volleyball

A game played on a court by two teams who hit a large, lightweight, inflated ball back and forth over a high net with the hands, each team trying to return the ball before it touches the ground

water-polo

A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponents goal.

baseball

A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.

Find another word for team-sport. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for team-sport, like: canadian-football, basketball, canoe polo, cricket, curling, cycle polo, field-hockey, football, hurling, ice-hockey and korfball.

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