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🗣️ To discuss casually 🦵 Curved legs 🏓 To hit back and forth 🥊 To exchange hits
to bandy

to bandy

1 7.0
To hit or throw a ball back and forth for fun
  • verb
  • /ˈbændi/
translation icon : pasarse
  • The children were bandying the soccer ball back and forth during recess.

Examples

  • In the backyard, the dog and the boy were bandying the tennis ball joyfully.

  • Men also worried that women, should they have the right to vote, would bandy together and collectively support such things as alcohol prohibition (hmmm...) or dominate a certain political spectrum; a single household, it was thought, deserves a single vote.

    Blog text (17)

  • We listen to two or three frogs bandying croaks back and forth.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • They spent the afternoon bandying a frisbee across the park.

Synonyms

to sling
vsto bandy
41 3.9

To throw something with force or without care

focuses on hitting a ball back and forth in play
toss
vsto bandy
7 2.0

A quick movement of the head or body

refers to sending a ball back and forth not a body movement
to sling the ball
vsto bandy
  • Informal
3.4

To throw the ball quickly and casually

is about sending a ball back and forth repeatedly

Phrasal Verbs

to bandy about
11 6.8

Talk about an idea or name without careful thought

Compounds

bandy leg
  • Archaic
1 8.8

A leg that curves outward at or below the knee

bandy legs
  • Archaic
7.5

Legs that curve outward at the knees and look bowed

How Hard

to fling
30 3.1
to throw
∞ 1.0
to bandy
1 7.0
to toss
348 1.0
to tap
174 1.0
to nudge
33 3.8

Surface Forms

bandy infinitive
bandied past
bandied past participle
bandying present participle
bandies third person singular

Etymology

Bandy began as a sports word for hitting or 'tossing' a ball back and forth, so picture players sending the ball quickly between them. That's why bandy means to toss or strike a ball back and forth.