rugby football

1. 1.

   a form of football played with an oval ball

   Synonymsrugbyrugger

   Broaderfootball

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   United Kingdom

Questions about rugby football

What does rugby football mean?

rugby football means "a form of football played with an oval ball".

What is another word for rugby football?

Close synonyms include rugby, rugger. 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 rugby football a common word?

rugby football 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.