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ultimate

ultimate

1 4.0
A team sport in which teams throw a flying disc to score in the opponent's end zone
  • noun
  • /ˈʌltɪmət/
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  • During the summer, our club organizes weekly games of Ultimate to help new players learn the rules.

And I was, I think I was the second youngest player to ever play ultimate, my debut.

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Examples

  • This time I'm in California and I'm out here because this week is the Ultimate Frisbee Beach World Championships.

  • The players enjoyed a friendly match of Ultimate at the park, showcasing their skills with the flying disc.

  • Ultimate is the name of the game

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  • And I was, I think I was the second youngest player to ever play ultimate, my debut.

  • Now, when you're playing ultimate, you got to decide who gets the Frisbee first.

  • Haller said his best friendships were made through Ultimate, and it is "great to play sports together and laugh together."

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  • That's why it's the Ultimate Team sport and that's why it's the best sport to translate life through.

  • Now the grass was brown and bare in patches, a scraggly pack of boys playing Ultimate under the bell tower.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • On the other hand, there is Dausch, who had been playing Ultimate for six years before attending Loyola.

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  • "I knew coming to college that I wanted to play competitive Ultimate, so I looked for the table at the Org Fair," said Griffin Muckley, senior Darkwing President.

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Synonyms

ultimate frisbee
vsultimate
1 3.5

A team sport played with a flying disc where players score by catching it in the opposing end zone

is the general description without detailed passing or turnover rules

Compounds

A team sport played with a flying disc where players score by catching it in the opposing end zone

9.9

A person who is very interested in games, computers, and gadgets and knows a lot about them

9.9

A person who makes people laugh online by telling funny stories

8.2

A woman who often goes to parties and likes going out at night

ultimate antagonist
  • Literature
7.9

The main enemy at the end of a story who the heroes must defeat

ultimate boss
  • Jargon
7.0

The final, most difficult enemy you must beat in a game

9.9

A person who attracts sexual interest but does not want sex

A young white man who behaves in ways people often joke about or make fun of

Surface Forms

ultimate singular
ultimates plural

Etymology

Ultimate as the sport name is short for Ultimate Frisbee, and the name was chosen to mean the 'highest' or most complete form of Frisbee play. So the sport called ultimate suggests a full, competitive game where teams aim to be the best.