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.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
 * 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.
 * 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".
 * 9)  Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
 * 10)  An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
 * 11)  The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

Synonyms

 * association football, soccer, wogball (Australian racist slang)
 * footie
 * American football, gridiron, gridiron football
 * Canadian football
 * footy, Aussie Rules, VFL (outdated), AFL
 * footy, league
 * soccer
 * ball
 * footy, pill
 * soccerball
 * pigskin
 * soccerball
 * pigskin

Derived terms

 * American football
 * arena football
 * Australian rules football
 * Barbarian football
 * blow football
 * Canadian flag football
 * Canadian football
 * Gaelic football


 * five-a-side football
 * flag football
 * football hooligan
 * football match
 * football player
 * football tennis
 * footballer
 * footballing
 * foosball
 * futbolín
 * gridiron football
 * table football
 * touch football
 * tackle football

Etymology
foot + ball; may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet, or to the fact that games are played on foot, as opposed to on horseback.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: futbol
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: futbol
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: fotbal, kopaná
 * Danish: fodbold
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, piedpilko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: football, foot, soccer
 * Georgian:
 * German: Fußball, Fussball
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , फुटबॉल
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: football
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Latin: pesball


 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: futbolas
 * Luxembourgish: Foussball
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: bola sepak
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: fitbaw
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: фудбал, ногомет
 * Roman: fudbal, nogomet
 * Slovak: futbal
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ; balompié;
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ฟุตบอล
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Urdu: فٹ بال
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: pêl-droed
 * West Frisian: fuotbal
 * Yiddish:


 * Arabic: (kórat al-qádam al-’amrikaníyya)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: futbol americà
 * Chinese: 橄榄球 (gǎnlǎnqiú)
 * Croatian: američki nogomet
 * Czech:
 * Danish: amerikansk fodbold
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: usona futbalo, usona piedpilko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * French: football américain
 * Canada: football
 * German:
 * Greek: αμερικανικό ποδόσφαιρο (amerikanikó podósfero)
 * Hebrew: פוטבול אמריקאי (football amerikai)
 * Hungarian: amerikai foci
 * Italian: football americano


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 미식축구 (misik chukgu)
 * Latvian: amerikāņu futbols
 * Macedonian: американски фудбал
 * Maltese: futbol Amerikan
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: futbol, futbol amerykański
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: americký futbal
 * Slovene: ameriški nogomet
 * Spanish: fútbol americano, fútbol estadounidense
 * futbol americano, futbol estadounidense
 * Swedish: amerikansk fotboll
 * Thai: (àmayrígan fóot-bon)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * West Frisian: Rugby


 * Aweer:
 * Esperanto: kanada futbalo, kanada piedpilko
 * French:
 * French: football canadien
 * Canada: football
 * Macedonian: канадски фудбал
 * Maltese: futbol Kanadiż


 * Polish: futbol kanadyjski
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: kanadský futbal
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * West Frisian: Kanadeesk rugby


 * Czech: australský fotbal
 * Danish: australsk fodbold
 * Finnish: australialainen jalkapallo


 * French: football australien
 * Macedonian: австралиски фудбал
 * Russian:


 * Danish:
 * French:


 * Macedonian:


 * Armenian: ֆուտբոլի գնդակ
 * Catalan: pilota de futbol, pilota
 * Croatian: nogometna lopta
 * Czech: (fotbalový) míč
 * Danish: fodbold
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: futbalpilko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ballon de foot, ballon
 * German: Fußball, Fussball
 * Greek: μπάλα ποδοφαίρου
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: pallone, palla da calcio , palla , pallone da calcio


 * Korean: 축구공 (chukgugong)
 * Lojban: boltipyboi
 * Macedonian: фудбалска топка
 * Maltese: ballun
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: bola de futebol
 * Russian: футбольный мяч
 * Scots: fitbaw
 * Slovak: futbalová lopta
 * Slovene: nogometna žoga
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: futbol topu
 * West Frisian: bal


 * Danish: fodbold, fodboldspil
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * Lojban: boltipkei
 * Norwegian:
 * Scots: fitbaw
 * West Frisian: fuotbalje


 * : vakapi (1)
 * : futaglöpäd

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  soccer
 * 2)  Canadian football
 * 3) (less common) American football

Synonyms

 * foot
 * soccer
 * football américain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) football