ball carrier

1. 1.

   (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

   Synonymsrunner

   Broaderfootball player

   Narrowerpasserrusher

   football

Questions about ball carrier

What does ball carrier mean?

ball carrier means "(football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play".

What is another word for ball carrier?

Close synonyms include runner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ball carrier a common word?

ball carrier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.