football

[foot-bawl] / ˈfʊtˌbɔl /

NOUN

a sport

Synonyms

STRONGEST

soccer

STRONG

rugby

WEAK

American football Association football Canadian football grid game gridiron pastime the pigskin sport

NOUN

the ball used in football

Synonyms

STRONG

moleskin oval peanut pigskin pineapple porker sphere watermelon

WEAK

inflated oval regulation football

Example Sentences

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"Like if my football team loses, it's not the end of the world to me," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Invitations regularly arrive from Premier League football clubs to drop by.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

A new trial over the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona begins Tuesday a year after a scandal involving a judge caused the first trial to collapse.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Darting with a football in his youth around the mean Scottish streets of Easterhouse - at the time the centre of Glasgow's notorious ganglands - McKechnie dreamed of playing for Rangers.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

So the football players carried the girls down all thirty-six stairs to the neighbors’ house.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson