ultimate frisbee
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈʌltəmɪt ˈfrɪzbi/
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ultimate frisbee
- I mean, like, video games, you know, ultimate frisbee, goat yoga.
I really regret never, never playing ultimate Frisbee.
- I really regret never, never playing ultimate Frisbee.
- I had a broken hand from Frisbee right from playing ultimate Frisbee, yes.
- Well yeah, the only thing college kids are good at distributing are ultimate frisbee, sign up sheets and HPV.
Examples
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Ultimate Frisbee?
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Are there any criteria that would consider trampolining and water polo Olympic-worthy, and would exclude capture the flag, dodgeball, or Ultimate Frisbee?
Blog text (18) -
Today's contestants are an ultimate Frisbee player hailing from New Jersey, Marquez Brownlee, an lttstore.com fashion model from Florida.
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My friends and I often play ultimate frisbee in the park on weekends.
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During summer camp, we have a tournament for ultimate frisbee teams every Friday.
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He joined the university team to compete in the national ultimate frisbee championship.
Synonyms
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4.0
A team sport in which teams throw a flying disc to score in the opponent's end zone
Surface Forms
Morphology
Because the phrase contains the familiar noun 'Frisbee', a B1 learner who knows that word will likely infer that the expression refers to an activity involving a flying disc. However, the modifier 'ultimate' does not transparently indicate the specific sense of a formal team sport with particular rules, so the full meaning (organized team game, scoring in end zones, turnover rules) is conventionalized rather than fully deducible from the parts.
Etymology
Ultimate frisbee began when students tossed pie tins and later a plastic Frisbee, running to catch it in an end zone to score. The name ultimate showed it was an exciting, final play, so today ultimate frisbee means 'a team game played with a flying disc'.