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ballplaying

ballplaying is the alternative form of ball-playing.

Meaning of ball-playing

Adjective

ball-playing (not comparable)

  1. Taking part in ball games; being a ball player.
  2. Focused on attacking and progressing down the field.
    • Irish debutant Conor Henderson - another ball-playing midfielder - probed for a gap through the back-line and the 19-year-old's deflected pass was pounced on by Tomas Rosicky, who sped to the byeline to clip a square ball through the legs of Charlie Daniels across the box.2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC

Questions about ballplaying

What is ballplaying the alternative form of?
Ballplaying is the alternative form of ball-playing.

Words near ballplaying in the dictionary

  1. ballpens
  2. ballpit
  3. ballpits
  4. ballplayer
  5. ballplayers
  6. ballplaying
  7. ballpoint
  8. ballpoint pen
  9. ballpoint pens
  10. ballpoints
  11. ballproof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballplaying (page history and authors); ball-playing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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