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Lacrosse vs Hurling - What's the difference?

lacrosse | hurling |

As nouns the difference between lacrosse and hurling

is that lacrosse is a sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by achieving a higher score by scoring goals within the allotted time while hurling is the act by which something is hurled or thrown.

As a verb hurling is

present participle of lang=en.

lacrosse

English

(wikipedia lacrosse)

Noun

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  • (sports) A sport played on a field between two opposing teams using sticks (crosses ) and a ball, whereby one team defeats the other by achieving a higher score by scoring goals within the allotted time.

    • Derived terms

    * lacrosse stick * lacrosse ball * lacrosse helmet * lacrosse player * indoor lacrosse * box lacrosse * field lacrosse

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    hurling

    English

    Noun

  • The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
  • * Charles Dickens, Pincher Astray
    • The butcher's boy — a fierce and beefy youth, who openly defied the dog, and waved him off with hurlings of his basket and threatenings of his feet, accompanied by growls of "Git out, yer beast!" — now entered silently
  • An Irish game of Celtic origin dating from AD400. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley ( in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
  • A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.

    • Verb

    (head)