to cricket
- verb
- /ˈkrɪkɪt/
- UK
Examples
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And I was joking with him about this last night, if I went to play cricket, right?
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Now, you you prefer playing cricket to rugby.
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But I thought I'd retire, I thought I'd play cricket, I play golf and I go fishing.
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I've never, ever played cricket before because I'm not a knob.
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It's a cricketing term.
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We've taken him out to play non-stop cricket and the goblin in Mead was talking again and Charlie's here.
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We decided to spend the weekend at the park, so we can cricket with our friends.
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After school, the students gathered to cricket on the field and enjoy the sunny weather.
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Let's cricket this Saturday; I heard there's going to be a friendly match nearby.
Synonyms
To take part in the sport of cricket
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
The things players use in cricket, like bats, balls and protective clothing
- Specialized
A small frog that lives near ponds and streams in the eastern United States and makes a short clicking call
A large insect with strong front legs that digs tunnels in soft soil and eats plant roots
A large dark insect like a cricket that cannot fly and forms moving swarms in the western United States
A large, wingless insect active at night that lives in loose soil and burrows
A small frog that jumps, lives near ponds, and makes a high, sharp call in eastern and central United States
A small pale yellow insect that lives on trees and makes a soft high sound
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb cricket (as in cricketing) comes from the name of the game; to cricket means to play the sport that was named after the stick used to hit the ball.