"kickball" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kickballs [plural]
Etymology: kick + ball Etymology templates: {{compound|en|kick|ball}} kick + ball Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} kickball (countable and uncountable, plural kickballs)
  1. (sports, uncountable) A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is pitched at a kicker, and is kicked rather than hit. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sports, Ball games Translations (kicking sport): sparkboll [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-kickball-en-noun-DXykSRpd Disambiguation of Ball games: 84 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'kicking sport': 56 44
  2. (countable) The ball used in the above sport. Tags: countable Translations (a ball used in a game): sparkboll [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-kickball-en-noun-lgyqkVSw Disambiguation of 'a ball used in a game': 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: soccer baseball, kick-ball, kick ball

Inflected forms

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