American football definition

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American football (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)

A game similar to rugby football played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two 10 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."

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Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world.

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gridiron football

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American football

Afrikaans: amerikaanse voetbal
Albanian: futboll Amerikan
Arabic: كُرَة الْقَدَم الْأَمْرِيكِيَّة‎ f (kurat al-qadam al-ʔamrīkiyya)
Armenian: ամերիկյան ֆուտբոլ (hy) (amerikyan futbol)
Asturian: fútbol americanu m
Azerbaijani: amerika futbolu
Bashkir: америка футболы (amireka fotbulı)
Basque: futbol amerikarra
Belarusian: амерыка́нскі футбо́л m (amjerykánski futból)
Bulgarian: америка́нски фу́тбол (amerikánski fútbol)
Catalan: futbol americà (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 美式足球 (mei⁵ sik¹ zuk¹ kau⁴)

Mandarin: 美式足球 (zh) (Měishì zúqiú), 橄欖球／橄榄球 (zh) (gǎnlǎnqiú)
Czech: americký fotbal m
Danish: amerikansk fodbold
Dutch: Amerikaanse voetbal n, rugby (nl) n, American football (nl) n
Esperanto: usona futbalo, usona piedpilko, usona piedpilkado
Estonian: ameerika jalgpall
Faroese: amerikanskur fótbóltur m
Finnish: amerikkalainen jalkapallo (fi), (colloquial) jenkkifutis
French: football américain (fr) m, football (fr) m (Canada)
Galician: fútbol americano m, fútbol estadounidense m
Georgian: ამერიკული ფეხბურთი (ameriḳuli pexburti)
German: American Football (de) m
Greek:
Modern: αμερικανικό ποδόσφαιρο m (amerikanikó podósfairo)
Hawaiian: pōpeku
Hebrew: פוטבול אמריקאי‎ m (futbol amerikai)
Hindi: अमेरिकी फ़ुटबॉल (amerikī fuṭbŏl)
Hungarian: amerikai foci, amerikai futball
Icelandic: amerískur fótbolti m
Irish: peil Mheiriceánach f
Italian: football americano (it) m
Japanese: アメリカンフットボール (ja) (Amerikan futtobōru), 鎧球 (ja) (がいきゅう, gaikyū), フットボール (ja) (futtobōru), アメフト (amefuto)
Kannada: ಅಮೇರಿಕದ ಫುಟ್‌ಬಾಲ್ (kn) (amērikada phuṭ‌bāl)
Kazakh: америкалық футбол (amerikalyq futbol)
Korean: 미식축구(美式蹴球) (ko) (misikchukgu)
Latvian: amerikāņu futbols m
Lithuanian: amerikietiškasis futbolas m
Lombard: fóball american
Macedonian: америка́нски фу́дбал m (amerikánski fúdbal)
Malay: bola sepak Amerika
Malayalam: അമേരിക്കൻ ഫുട്ബോൾ (amērikkaṉ fuṭbōḷ)
Maltese: futbol Amerikan
Marathi: अमेरिकन फुटबॉल (amerikan phuṭbŏl)
Navajo: jooł yitalí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: amerikansk fotball m

Nynorsk: amerikansk fotball m
Occitan: futbòl american m
Ojibwe: obasikawaadaanaawaa chi-bikwaakwad
Persian: فوتبال آمریکایی‎
Picard: fotbale anmérikin m
Polish: futbol (pl) m, futbol amerykański (pl) m
Portuguese: futebol americano (pt) m
Romanian: fotbal american
Russian: америка́нский футбо́л (ru) m (amerikánskij futból)
Scots: American fitbaw, American fitba
Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise Aimeireaganach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: амерички ногомет m, амерички фудбал m

Roman: američki nogomet m, američki fudbal m
Sicilian: futtibboll miricanu m
Slovak: americký futbal m
Slovene: ameriški nogomet m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: ameriski football m
Spanish: fútbol americano m, fútbol estadounidense m
Swedish: amerikansk fotboll (sv) c
Tagalog: amerikanong putbol
Tajik: футболи амрикоӣ (futboli amrikoyī)
Tamil: அமெரிக்கக் கால்பந்தாட்டம் (amerikkak kālpantāṭṭam)
Thai: อเมริกันฟุตบอล (à-mee-rí-gan fút-bɔn)
Tok Pisin: futbal
Turkish: Amerikan futbolu
Ukrainian: америка́нський футбо́л m (amerykánsʹkyj futból)
Urdu: امریکی فٹ بال‎
Uzbek: amerika futboli
Vietnamese: bóng bầu dục (vi)
Welsh: pêl-droed Americanaidd f

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