passing play

Questions about passing play

What does passing play mean?

passing play means "(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate".

What is another word for passing play?

Close synonyms include pass, passing game, passing. 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 passing play a common word?

passing play 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.