water polo

1. 1.

   a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal

   Broaderathletic game

Questions about water polo

What does water polo mean?

water polo means "a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal".

Is water polo a common word?

water polo 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.