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a game like tennis played by two or four people, usually
indoors. Players hit a small light kind of ball, originally badminton with feathers around it (= a shuttlecock) across a high noun net using a racket. a game played especially in the US by two teams of nine players, using a bat and ball. Each player tries to hit noun baseball the ball and then run around four bases before the other team can return the ball a game for two people played on a board marked with black and white squares on which each playing piece (representing a king, queen, castle, etc.) is moved chess according to special rules. The aim is to put the other noun player's king in a position from which it cannot escape (= to checkmate it).
cooking the process of preparing food noun
dancing moving your body to music noun
enjoy to get pleasure from sth verb
falling to drop down from a higher level to a lower level verb
used with plural nouns and a plural verb to mean 'not
few many' det.,adj.
a game played by two teams of 11 players, using a
round ball which players kick up and down the playing noun football field. Teams try to kick the ball into the other team's goal physical exercises that develop and show the body's gymnastics strength and ability to move and bend easily, often done noun as a sport in competitions the activity of going for long walks in the country for hiking pleasure noun
a game played on ice, in which players use long sticks
ice hockey to hit a hard rubber disc (called a puck) into the other noun team's goal a Japanese system of fighting in which you use your karate hands and feet as weapons noun
used with plural nouns and verbs, especially in negative
sentences or in more formal English, to mean 'a large many number of'. Also used in questions to ask about the size det.,pron. of a number, and with 'as', 'so' and 'too'.
most the largest in number or amount det.,pron.
painting the act or art of using paint to produce pictures noun
an occasion when people pack a meal and take it to eat
picnic outdoors, especially in the countryside noun
to come or go upwards; to reach a higher level or
rise position verb
running the action or sport of running noun
a game played by two teams of 11 players, using a
round ball which players kick up and down the playing noun soccer field. Teams try to kick the ball into the other team's goal the sport of riding on waves while standing on a narrow surfing board called a surfboard noun
swimming the sport or activity of swimming noun
a game played like tennis with bats and a small plastic
table tennis ball on a table with a net across it noun
a game in which two teams of six players use their
hands to hit a large ball backwards and forwards over a noun volleyball high net while trying not to let the ball touch the ground on their own side a system of exercises for your body and for controlling yoga your breathing, used by people who want to become noun fitter or to relax