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centre circles

centre circles is the plural of centre circle.

Meaning of centre circle

Noun

centre circle (plural centre circles)

  1. The circle in the centre of the pitch which, at kick-off, the defending team may not enter until the attacking side has touched the ball.
    • Vardy should have equalled Dunne’s record nine minutes in, when he dispossessed Williams in the centre circle and sped clear.2015 December 5, Alan Smith, “Leicester City back on top as Riyad Mahrez hat-trick downs Swansea City”, in The Guardian (London)

Questions about centre circles

What is centre circles the plural of?
Centre circles is the plural of centre circle.

Words near centre circles in the dictionary

  1. centration
  2. centre
  3. centre back
  4. centre backs
  5. centre circle
  6. centre circles
  7. centre console
  8. centre consoles
  9. Centre County
  10. centre forward
  11. centre forwards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: centre circles (page history and authors); centre circle (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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