| football |
a game played in the United States and Canada by two teams on a long field. Each team tries to score points by passing or carrying the ball to the other team's end of the playing area, or by kicking it through the goal posts. [4 definitions] |
| foul |
a failure to play by the rules of a game or sport. [2/11 definitions] |
| gamble |
to bet money or other things on the way a game, race, or other event will end. [1/4 definitions] |
| golf |
a game played on a large outdoor course with small holes in the ground spaced far apart. Players use a set of special clubs to hit a small white ball into each of the series of holes. There are nine or eighteen holes in a golf course. The object of the game is to get the ball into each hole using as few strokes as possible. [1/2 definitions] |
| grouse1 |
a plump game bird with dull, spotted feathers. The male does a complicated dance or call for the female. |
| hand |
the cards given out to each player in a card game. [1/11 definitions] |
| handball |
a game in which a ball is batted against a wall or walls with the hand. Handball can be played by two or four players. [2 definitions] |
| hide-and-seek |
a children's game in which one player tries to find the others, who are hiding. |
| hit |
the batter's successful contact with the ball so as to reach a base in a baseball game. [1/9 definitions] |
| home plate |
a flat slab of hard rubber at which the batter stands in a baseball game. The base runner must touch home plate in order to score a run. |
| home run |
a hit that allows the batter in a baseball game to touch all four bases and score a run. |
| hopscotch |
a children's game in which players toss a stone onto a pattern of numbered squares drawn on the ground. The players then hop or jump from square to square, picking up the stone as they move. |
| horseshoe |
(plural but used with a singular verb) a game in which players toss horseshoes at a stake some distance away. [1/2 definitions] |
| hunt |
to set out to find and kill (game animals) for food or as a sport. [1/5 definitions] |
| inning |
the unit of a baseball of softball game during which each side has a turn at bat. |
| jack |
(plural but used with a singular verb) a children's game in which one bounces a ball and picks up as many small, star-shaped metal pieces as one can before the ball lands. [1/5 definitions] |
| jackpot |
the largest or final prize in a game or contest. |
| joystick |
(informal) the control stick for an airplane, computer, or game. |
| jump |
a space or level, as in a game. [1/11 definitions] |
| jump rope |
a rope held at each end and swung under the feet and over the head as a person jumps. Jump ropes are used for exercise or as a game. |
| kickoff |
a kick in football that puts the ball into action and signals the beginning or continuing of the game. [1/2 definitions] |