glovework
glovework noun: fielding ability in sports such as in baseball or cricket where fielders wear gloves.
Noun
glovework (uncountable)
- Fielding ability in sports such as in baseball or cricket where fielders wear gloves.
- A half-century after Branch Rickey harrumphed, “There is nothing on earth anybody can do with fielding,” all these pixels and bits will almost certainly revolutionize the analysis of baseball glovework.2009, Alan Schwarz, Digital Eyes Will Chart Baseball’s Unseen Skills, New York Times
- Synonyms:
- glovemanship
Synonyms of glovework
Origin of glovework
From glove + work.
Questions about glovework
- What does glovework mean?
- Glovework means fielding ability in sports such as in baseball or cricket where fielders wear gloves.
- What part of speech is glovework?
- Glovework is a noun.
Words near glovework in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glovework (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “glovework.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glovework. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.