(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team. Example: Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.
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. Example: Each team scored three goals when they played football.
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. Example: Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
Canadian football: a game played on a 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. Example: They played football in the snow.
(Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory) Australian rules football.
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.
(New South Wales) rugby league.
Rugby union.
The ball used in any game called "football". Example: The player kicked the football.
Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner Example: That budget item became a political football.
The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
To play football.
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