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🥅 A team sport 🥅 To play
to broomball

to broomball

7.9
To play a team sport on ice using brooms and a ball
  • verb
  • US
translation icon : jugar al broomball
  • She loves to broomball with her friends after school when the rink is open.

Examples

  • Let's broomball this weekend!

  • I love to broomball with my friends.

  • Every winter, students gather to broomball on the frozen lake near campus.

  • We decided to broomball instead of ice skate at the community center last night.

  • Every winter, students gather to broomball on the frozen lake near campus.

  • We decided to broomball instead of ice skating at the community center last night.

  • She loves to broomball with her friends after school when the rink is open.

Surface Forms

broomball infinitive
broomballed past
broomballed past participle
broomballing present participle
broomballs third person singular

Morphology

broomball = broomball (transparent) = broom + ball

The verb is a straightforward conversion from the noun 'broomball', which itself is transparently built from 'broom' + 'ball'.

Etymology

The verb broomball comes from the name of the game, which is made of broom and ball. It means 'to play broomball', to use a broom-like stick to move a ball on the ice, so to broomball is simply to play that sport.