American football

See also: American Football

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

American football (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei)

1. A game similar to rugby football played on a field of one hundred yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two ten yard-long endzones) in which two teams of eleven players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."

Usage notes

• Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world.

Synonyms

• American handegg
• feetsball (slang)
• handegg
• NFL

Hypernyms

• gridiron football

Translations

American football

• Afrikaans: amerikaanse voetbal
• Albanian: futboll Amerikan
• Arabic: كُرَة الْقَدَم الْأَمْرِيكِيَّة f (kurat al-qadam al-ʔamrīkiyya)
• Armenian: ամերիկյան ֆուտբոլ (hy) (amerikyan futbol)
• Asturian: fútbol americanu m
• Azerbaijani: amerika futbolu
• Bashkir: америка футболы (amerika futbolı)
• Basque: futbol amerikarra
• Belarusian: амерыка́нскі футбо́л m (amjerykánski futból)
• Bulgarian: америка́нски фу́тбол (amerikánski fútbol)
• Catalan: futbol americà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 美び式しき足あし球だま (mei⁵ sik¹ zuk¹ kau⁴)

  Mandarin: 美び式しき足あし球だま (zh) (Měishì zúqiú), 橄欖かんらん球だま／橄榄球だま (zh) (gǎnlǎnqiú)

• Czech: americký fotbal m
• Danish: amerikansk fodbold
• Dutch: Amerikaanse voetbal n, rugby (nl) n, American football (nl) n
• Esperanto: usona futbalo, usona piedpilko, usona piedpilkado
• Estonian: ameerika jalgpall
• Faroese: amerikanskur fótbóltur m
• Finnish: amerikkalainen jalkapallo (fi), (colloquial) jenkkifutis
• French: football américain (fr) m, football (fr) m (Canada)
• Galician: fútbol americano m, fútbol estadounidense m
• Georgian: ამერიკული ფეხბურთი (ameriḳuli pexburti)
• German: American Football (de) m
• Greek:

  Modern: αμερικανικό ποδόσφαιρο m (amerikanikó podósfairo)

• Hawaiian: pōpeku
• Hebrew: פוטבול אמריקאי m (futbol amerikai)
• Hindi: अमेरिकी फ़ुटबॉल (amerikī fuṭbŏl)
• Hungarian: amerikai foci, amerikai futball
• Icelandic: amerískur fótbolti m
• Irish: peil Mheiriceánach f
• Italian: football americano (it) m, football statunitense m, calcio americano m, calcio statunitense m
• Japanese: アメリカンフットボール (ja) (Amerikan futtobōru), 鎧よろい球だま (ja) (がいきゅう, gaikyū), フットボール (ja) (futtobōru), アメフト (ja) (amefuto)
• Kannada: ಅಮೇರಿಕದ ಫುಟ್‌ಬಾಲ್ (kn) (amērikada phuṭ‌bāl)
• Kazakh: америкалық футбол (amerikalyq futbol)
• Korean: 미식축구(美び式しき蹴球しゅうきゅう) (ko) (misikchukgu)
• Latvian: amerikāņu futbols m
• Lithuanian: amerikietiškasis futbolas m
• Lombard: fóball american
• Macedonian: америка́нски фу́дбал m (amerikánski fúdbal)
• Malay: bola sepak Amerika
• Malayalam: അമേരിക്കൻ ഫുട്ബോൾ (amērikkaṉ phuṭbōḷ)
• Maltese: futbol Amerikan
• Marathi: अमेरिकन फुटबॉल (amerikan phuṭbŏl)
• Navajo: jooł yitalí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amerikansk fotball m

  Nynorsk: amerikansk fotball m

• Occitan: futbòl american m
• Ojibwe: obasikawaadaanaawaa chi-bikwaakwad
• Persian: فوتبال آمریکایی
• Picard: fotbale anmérikin m
• Polish: futbol (pl) m, futbol amerykański (pl) m
• Portuguese: futebol americano (pt) m
• Romanian: fotbal american
• Russian: америка́нский футбо́л (ru) m (amerikánskij futból)
• Scots: American fitbaw, American fitba
• Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise Aimeireaganach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амерички ногомет m, амерички фудбал m

  Roman: američki nogomet m, američki fudbal m

• Sicilian: futtibboll miricanu m
• Slovak: americký futbal m
• Slovene: ameriški nogomet m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: ameriski football m

• Spanish: fútbol americano m, fútbol estadounidense m
• Swedish: amerikansk fotboll (sv) c
• Tagalog: amerikanong putbol
• Tajik: футболи амрикоӣ (futbol-i amrikoi)
• Tamil: அமெரிக்கக் கால்பந்தாட்டம் (amerikkak kālpantāṭṭam)
• Thai: อเมริกันฟุตบอล (à-mee-rí-gan fút-bɔn)
• Tok Pisin: futbal
• Turkish: Amerikan futbolu
• Ukrainian: америка́нський футбо́л m (amerykánsʹkyj futból)
• Urdu: امریکی فٹ بال
• Uzbek: amerika futboli
• Vietnamese: bóng bầu dục (vi)
• Welsh: pêl-droed Americanaidd f

See also

• association football
• Canadian football
• North American football
• football
• gridiron
• rugby
• rugby football
• soccer