"paintball" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpeɪntbɔːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-paintball.wav [Southern-England] Forms: paintballs [plural]
Etymology: paint + ball Etymology templates: {{compound|en|paint|ball}} paint + ball Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} paintball (countable and uncountable, plural paintballs)
  1. (uncountable) A sport where teams shoot each other with gelatin capsules filled with paint-like dye. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sports Translations (sport): värikuulasota (Finnish), paintti (Finnish), Paintball [masculine] (German), χρωματοσφαίριση (chromatosfaírisi) [feminine] (Greek), paintball (Hungarian), festékharc (Hungarian), ペイントボール (peintobōru) (Japanese), paintball [masculine] (Polish), пейнтбо́л (pɛjntból) [masculine] (Russian), boyartop (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-paintball-en-noun-aEjyjmzc Disambiguation of Sports: 47 19 22 12 Categories (other): English endocentric compounds, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English endocentric compounds: 40 19 20 21 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 7 8 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 62 9 11 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 55 10 13 22 Disambiguation of 'sport': 56 44
  2. (countable) The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball. Tags: countable Translations (capsule): värikuula (Finnish), festékgolyó (Hungarian), paintballgolyó (Hungarian), festéklövedék (Hungarian), festék (Hungarian), boyartop (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-paintball-en-noun-FzC11KjU Disambiguation of 'capsule': 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: archery tag, dart tag, laser tag, tagball

Verb

IPA: /ˈpeɪntbɔːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-paintball.wav [Southern-England] Forms: paintballs [present, singular, third-person], paintballing [participle, present], paintballed [participle, past], paintballed [past]
Etymology: paint + ball Etymology templates: {{compound|en|paint|ball}} paint + ball Head templates: {{en-verb}} paintball (third-person singular simple present paintballs, present participle paintballing, simple past and past participle paintballed)
  1. To engage in the sport of paintball.
    Sense id: en-paintball-en-verb-T8ymWEjw
  2. To shoot someone using a paintball gun.
    Sense id: en-paintball-en-verb-4eTqA7Cf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: paintballer

Inflected forms

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