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roller football

roller football noun: the sport of either association football or American touch football played on roller skates.

Noun

roller football (uncountable)

  1. the sport of either association football or American touch football played on roller skates.
    • Despite efforts to maintain interest by staging novelty races and roller football, few of these rinks would survive, and only one more opened before the end of the century, at the Sherbourne Hotel, Balsall Heath, in 1887.2006, Steve Beauchampe, Played in Birmingham, Played in Britain
    • The most popular outdoor skating games, roller-frisbee, roller football, and roller hockey, are very difficult to adapt to indoor areas.1979, Hal Straus and Marilou Sturges, Roller Skating Guide, World Publications, Inc., page 139

Questions about roller football

What does roller football mean?
Roller football means the sport of either association football or American touch football played on roller skates.
What part of speech is roller football?
Roller football is a noun.

Words near roller football in the dictionary

  1. roller derby
  2. roller disco
  3. roller discos
  4. roller docker
  5. roller dockers
  6. roller football
  7. roller gin
  8. roller gins
  9. roller hockey
  10. roller machine
  11. roller machines

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