rugby

Speech parts

1. rugby - Noun

2. rugby - Verb

3. Rugby - Proper noun

Meaning

a form of football played with an oval ball

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

rugger rugby football American football game football sport baseball cricket hockey boxing athletics bowling fencing discus badminton

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Antonyms

winter activity winter sport

Hypernyms

football football game

Phrases with the word

rugby gridiron ball rugby leather ball rugby footballer rugby oval ball rugby pigskin rugby american football

Examples

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. Éamon de Valera

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport. Yoshiro Mori

A game of rugby is a work of art! Danie Craven

I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But that's part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European. Rory Bremner

I'm a rugby player, really, and I knew I was going to get to him, and when he was about two yards away I just put my head down. There was no malice. I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move in soccer. Boris Johnson

Rugby is a game for men with no fear of brain injury. Linda Smith

Close letter words and terms

Rugbeian rugburn rugburned rugby american football rugby australian rules football rugby ball