place-kicking

1. 1.

   (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking

   Synonymsplace kick

   Broaderkick

   Narrowerfree kickkickoff

   soccer · football

Questions about place-kicking

What does place-kicking mean?

place-kicking means "(sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking".

How many syllables are in place-kicking?

place-kicking has 4 syllables: pla-ce--kic-king. The stress falls on "ce-".

What is another word for place-kicking?

Close synonyms include place kick. 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 place-kicking a common word?

place-kicking 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.