rugby
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rugby /ˈrʌɡbi/ (also rugby football)
▶noun a team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed by hand, in which points are won by scoring a try or by kicking the ball over the crossbar of the opponents' goal.
– origin C19: named after Rugby School in England, where the game was first played.
'rugby' also found in these Oxford entries:
backline
- back row
- clear
- conversion
- convert
- dead-ball line
- drop
- drop goal
- drop kick
- dropout
- dummy
- -er
- fifteen
- five-eighth
- flank
- flanker
- fly half
- footy
- FP
- free kick
- fullback
- Gaelic football
- garryowen
- goal
- goal kick
- grass
- grubber
- hand
- heel
- hook
- hooker
- inside
- kick
- knock
- knock-on
- line-out
- lion
- lock
- loose
- loose forward
- loose head
- loose scrum
- mark
- maul
- misfield
- no side
- open side
- out-half
- pack
- penalty kick
