"kickball" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kickballs [plural]
Etymology: From 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
    Sense id: en-kickball-en-noun-DXykSRpd Disambiguation of Ball games: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Marshallese translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Marshallese translations: 78 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 79 21 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (countable) The ball used in the above sport. Tags: countable Translations (a ball used in a game): anidep (Marshallese), sparkboll [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-kickball-en-noun-lgyqkVSw Disambiguation of 'a ball used in a game': 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: soccer baseball, kick-ball, kick ball Translations (kicking sport): キックベースボール (kikku bēsubōru) (Japanese), キックボール (kikkubōru) (Japanese), フットベースボール (futto bēsubōru) (Japanese), 발야구 (baryagu) (Korean), 킥볼 (kikbol) (Korean), sparkboll [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'kicking sport': 55 45

Inflected forms

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