Canadian football

English

A warm-up game of Canadian football.

Noun

Canadian football (uncountable)

1. A game similar to American football played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide (with two 20 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

Usage notes

• Called simply football in Canada and Canadian football elsewhere in the world, even in the United States.

Synonyms

• football (Canadian English)

Hypernyms

• football (all types of football)
• gridiron football (Canadian and American football; North American football)
• North American football (rare term for the above sport)
• rugby (from Canadian football originating as Canadian rugby)

Coordinate terms

• Canadian Football League
• American football
• association football (soccer)
• rugby football

Translations

sport

• Armenian: կանադական ֆուտբոլ (hy) (kanadakan futbol)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 加拿大式足球 (gaa¹ naa⁴ daai⁶ sik¹ zuk¹ kau⁴)

  Mandarin: 加拿大式足球 (Jiānádà-shì zúqiú)

• Esperanto: kanada futbalo, kanada piedpilko
• Faroese: kanadiskur fótbóltur m
• Finnish: kanadalainen jalkapallo (fi)
• French: football (fr) m (Canada), football canadien (fr) m (France)
• Georgian: კანადური ფეხბურთი (ḳanaduri pexburti)
• German: Canadian Football m, kanadischer Fußball m
• Italian: football canadese m
• Japanese: カナディアンフットボール (ja) (kanadianfuttobōru)
• Korean: 캐나디안 풋볼 (kaenadian putbol)
• Latvian: kanādiešu futbols m
• Macedonian: канадски фудбал m (kanadski fudbal)
• Maltese: futbol Kanadiż
• Ojibwe: obasikawaadaanaawaa chi-bikwaakwad
• Polish: futbol kanadyjski m
• Portuguese: futebol canadense m
• Russian: кана́дский футбо́л m (kanádskij futból)
• Sicilian: futtibboll canadisi m
• Slovak: kanadský futbal m
• Spanish: fútbol canadiense m
• Swedish: kanadensisk fotboll c
• Ukrainian: кана́дський футбо́л m (kanádsʹkyj futból), канаді́йський футбо́л m (kanadíjsʹkyj futból)
• West Frisian: Kanadeesk rugby