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cricketing

cricketing is the present participle and gerund of cricket.

Meaning of cricket

Verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To play the game of cricket.
    • Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
      Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016

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Adjective

cricketing

  1. That plays cricket.
    • The cricketing twins Sir Alec and Eric Bedser, who played for Surrey and England […]

Noun

cricketing (plural cricketings)

  1. (archaic) A game of cricket.
    • What between the Cowley cricketings, and the Isis boatings, Mr. Verdant Green only read by spasmodic fits […]1853, Cuthbert Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman

Forms of cricketing

pluralcricketings

Questions about cricketing

What does cricketing mean?
Cricketing means that plays cricket.
What is cricketing the present participle and gerund of?
Cricketing is the present participle and gerund of cricket.
What part of speech is cricketing?
Cricketing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cricketing in the dictionary

  1. cricketed
  2. cricketeer
  3. cricketeers
  4. cricketer
  5. cricketers
  6. cricketing
  7. cricketings
  8. cricketless
  9. cricketlike
  10. cricketly
  11. crickets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cricketing (page history and authors); cricket (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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