(uncountable) A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
(chiefly in the plural) Either of a pair of marble-sized metal or plastic balls, usually hollow and containing a small weight that rolls around, used for vaginal or anal sexual stimulation.
In court tennis, the rebound of a ball from a wall of the court; also, the side stroke or play by which the ball is driven against the wall; hence, (figuratively) an indirect action or stroke.
(transitive, games) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
A traditional children's toy consisting of a hand-held wooden cup with a ball attached by a string. The player jerks the ball into the air and attempts to catch it in the cup.
Alternative form of fourball (“golf format”) [(golf) A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.]
(golf) A match between two teams of two golfers, each playing his or her own ball throughout the round rather than alternating shots, and each hole won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score.
Alternative spelling of handegg [(slang, uncountable, humorous) Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian and Australian football.]
An attraction at fairs and carnivals which is operated by striking a puck attached to a tower with a mallet, with punters attempting to ring the bill suspended at the top.
(golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
(sports, uncountable) A co-ed contact ball sport created as a ground-based adaptation of Quidditch, featuring the same positions, balls, and goals as the fictional sport, but with the players clutching broomsticks and a human "snitch runner" carrying the snitch (an autonomous magical device in the Harry Potter novels).
(countable, sports) An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
(croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
Obsolete spelling of shuttlecock (“the game or the object”) [(countable) A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games. [from early 16th c.]]
A sport somewhat similar to volleyball but played sitting down (and thus suitable for people with disabilities or amputations that diminish their capacity to stand).
(pinball) A bonus obtained by hitting a target with a ball when either launched directly from the plunger or as the first shot done with flippers once the ball has entered play.
(mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
(informal, US, sports) A 2013 controversy around an NBA basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers, in which a player deliberately spilled a cup of soda to delay the game.
Alternative spelling of tennis racket [(tennis) A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings]
Alternative spelling of tennis racket [(tennis) A type of bat used to strike the ball in tennis; it has an oval frame with a taut interlaced network of strings]
Alternative spelling of witch ball [A hollow sphere of plain or stained glass hung in windows in 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches' spells or ill fortune.]
(sports) A large, transparent, inflatable ball, inside which a person may be secured and then rolled downhill
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