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

Usage examples of football.

She turned the glasses to the Afghanis encamped below on the football field.

Bright emergency lights flashed on all over the estate, lighting up the area like a football field.

On West Auer Avenue, a man in a gray University of Michigan football T-shirt, gray cotton shorts, and flip-flops was washing a dark blue Toyota Camry in his short double-wheel-track driveway.

Rake had coached hundreds of games, and looked again at the silent bleachers where ten thousand people once gathered on Friday nights to pour their emotions upon a high school football team.

Laughter rose occasionally from one of the groups scattered throughout the home bleachers as someone told an old football story.

A soggy football went sailing past the window and a clatter of bogmen chasing after it.

Sandy Foster, football bohunk extraordinaire, leaned forward and handed them both cold beers, after throwing his own empty through the open T-top.

Like if a street bookie had a real heavy play on a horse or a football team, he could lay off some of his bets with Bobby.

If I expected to score by betting on fighters and football teams that had been doped with ZAP, I needed Bobby because he knew bookies all over , the country and could cobble up a giant swindle.

It reminded Borel of a North American high-school football field: same small wooden grandstands, and tents at the ends where the goal posts should be.

There, a mass of fifty thousand particles forms a single, eukaryotic Football Fan.

He had for years played the euphonium in the silver band at Airdrie until some baiter at a football ground had tossed a lighted firework into the bright gaping horn.

Sports buffs replaced baseball with falconry and polo in their Sunday afternoon television repertoire, and the big Thanksgiving game changed from football to soccer.

The football captain asked his advice as to whether there really was anything to all this Reading that he kept hearing about in his classes, and the leading bootlegger in the village gave Gid a box of thirty Turkish cigarettes.

But it seems that the reason Sam the Gonoph wishes to find Gigolo Georgie is to give him a good punch in the snoot, because it seems that Gigolo Georgie promotes Sam for several duckets to the large football game between the Harvards and the Yales to sell on commission, and never kicks back anything whatever to Sam.