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world game

world game noun: association football; soccer.

Noun (1)

world game

  1. (Australia) Association football; soccer.
    • Why then, for a country guilty of occasional ambivalence toward the world game, does the World Cup provoke such urgent displays of public unity?2026 July 3, Jeremy Story Carter, “Why the World Cup has us waking up early to party with strangers”, in ABC News, Sydney, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2026, retrieved 23 Aug 2026

Noun (2) capitalized: World Game

World Game

  1. Alternative letter-case form of world game.

Origin of world game

Coined by Hungarian-born Australian sports journalist Les Murray. Popularised by the Murray-presented television show of the same name. In reference to the sport's popularity across the world, in comparison with the relative global unpopularity of some of Australia's other popular sports (eg Australian rules football and rugby league) and the relative local unpopularity of association football.

Questions about world game

What does world game mean?
World game means association football; soccer.
What part of speech is world game?
World game is a noun.

Words near world game in the dictionary

  1. World Englishes
  2. World Exposition
  3. World Expositions
  4. World Freedom Day
  5. world fusion
  6. world game
  7. World Health Assembly
  8. World Health Organisation
  9. World Health Organization
  10. World Heritage Site
  11. World Heritage Sites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: world game (page history and authors); World Game (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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