Soccer
noun
1.
a form of football played between two teams of 11 players, in which the ball may be advanced by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body but the arms and hands, except in the case of the goalkeepers, who may use their hands to catch, carry, throw, or stop the ball.
noun
1.
a game in which two teams of eleven players try to kick or head a ball into their opponent’s goal, only the goalkeeper on either side being allowed to touch the ball with his hands and arms except in the case of throw-ins
(as modifier): a soccer player
Also called Association Football
Read Also:
- Soccer-mom
noun 1. a typical American suburban woman with school-age children. noun 1. (US) a woman who devotes much of her spare time to her children’s activities, typically driving them to and from sports events in which they are involved
- Socceroos
plural noun 1. the Australian men’s national soccer team
- Soche
noun 1. Wade-Giles. Shache. noun 1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Shache
- Sochi
noun 1. a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea: resort. noun 1. a city and resort in SW Russia, in the Krasnodar Territory on the Black Sea: hot mineral springs. Pop: 328 000 (2005 est)
- Socho
a fence; hedge, (1 Chr. 4:18; R.V., Soco)=So’choh (1 Kings 4:10; R.V., Socoh), Sho’choh (1 Sam. 17:1; R.V., Socoh), Sho’co (2 Chr. 11:7; R.V., Soco), Sho’cho (2 Chr. 28:18; R.V., Soco), a city in the plain or lowland of Judah, where the Philistines encamped when they invaded Judah after their defeat at Michmash. It lay […]