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Sports vs Soccer - What's the difference?

sports | soccer |

As nouns the difference between sports and soccer

is that sports is while soccer is association football]], a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their [[foot|feet.

As a verb soccer is

(australian rules football) to kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.

sports

English

(wikipedia sports)

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    (sport plural) * air sports * disabled sports * parasports * sportscaster * water sports * watersports * winter sports

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sport)
  • (Reductive) To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. ("There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer", said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup).

    • Anagrams

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    soccer

    English

    (wikipedia soccer)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Association football]], a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their [[foot, feet.

    • Usage notes

    *football (meaning "soccer") is more commonly used in the UK.

    Synonyms

    * association football * football

    Derived terms

    * soccer mom

    Related terms

    * rugger

    See also

    * (Association football)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
  • * 1990 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football , 2003, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.
    • The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
  • * 2008 , John Devaney, Full Points Footy?s WA Football Companion , page 334,
    • West Perth seemed on the verge of victory, only to succumb by 4 points after a soccered goal from Old Easts with less than half a minute remaining.
  • * 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League .
    • Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.

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