any of several games that involve kicking a ball, esp Association Football in the UK or American football in the US, that are played between two teams on a usu rectangular field with having goalposts at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking
the inflated round or oval ball used in any of these games
(used before a noun) of football
a football match
something treated as a basis for contention rather than on its intrinsic merits
The bill became a political football in Parliament
footballer noun