dodgeball

See also: dodge ball

English

Alternative forms

dodge ball

Etymology

dodge +‎ ball

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

dodgeball (countable and uncountable, plural dodgeballs)

A team sport whose main objective is to dodge or catch balls thrown by the opposition.
The ball thrown in this sport.

Translations

a sport

Catalan: baló presoner m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 躲避球 (zh) (duǒbìqiú)
Danish: høvdingebold c
Dutch: trefbal (nl) m
Esperanto: evitpilkado, evitludo
Estonian: rahvastepall
Finnish: polttopallo (fi)
French: balle aux prisonniers (fr) f, ballon-chasseur m
German: Völkerball (de) m
Greek: μήλα (el) n pl (míla)
Hungarian: kidobós
Icelandic: brennibolti m
Irish: seachain m
Japanese: ドッジボール (ja) (dojjibōru)
Korean: 피구(避球) (ko) (pigu)
Norwegian: kanonball m
Polish: dwa ognie (pl) m pl, zbijak (pl) m
Portuguese: queimada (pt) f (Brazil), mata (pt) m (Portugal)
Russian: вышиба́лы pl (vyšibály), доджбо́л m (dodžból)
Spanish: balón prisionero m
Swedish: spökboll (sv) c
Turkish: yakartop (tr), yakantop (tr)
Welsh: osgoi'r bêl m

See also

suicide (children's game)
tag (children's game)

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