football game

Questions about football game

What does football game mean?

football game means "any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal".

What is another word for football game?

Close synonyms include football. 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 football game a common word?

football game 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.