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OUTDOOR GAME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An athletic game that is played outdoors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("outdoor game" is a kind of...):
athletic game (a game involving athletic activity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outdoor game"):
day game (a game played in daylight)
night game (a game played under artificial illumination at night)
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
croquet (a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg)
paintball (a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them)
horseshoes; quoits (a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it)
shovelboard; shuffleboard (a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface)
field game (an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions)
