football vs polo

football

noun
  • A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team. 

  • American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. 

  • Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them. 

  • rugby league. 

  • The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President. 

  • rugby union. 

  • Australian rules football. 

  • The ball used in any game called "football". 

  • Canadian football: a game played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. 

  • 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. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. 

  • 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. 

  • An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner 

verb
  • To play football. 

polo

noun
  • 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. 

  • A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands. 

  • A polo shirt. 

  • The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates. 

  • A dress shirt. 

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