rugby

[ˈrʌɡbi]

Definition:
1. A form of football played with an oval ball.

Use 'rugby' in a sentence:

• 1. The ANC are attacking rugby because it is the soft underbelly of South African sport.
• 2. David had been on a pub crawl with pals from his rugby club.
• 3. I don’t care who wins the flower show or the Rugby World Cup.
• 4. The revivor of the modern Olympics introduced rugby union to the Summer Olympics at the 1900 games in Paris.
• 5. Named after Rugby school, where the game was first played.
• 6. What the heck does Rugby have to do with software development?
• 7. The players can advertise baked beans, but not rugby boots.
• 8. In his younger days he played rugby for Wales.
• 9. His eye was drawn to an old picture of a young man in a rugby uniform.
• 10. Rugby isn't played with a round ball.
• 11. The running of Welsh rugby was left in chaos yesterday after a vote of no confidence in the game's overlords.
• 12. He was rugby tackled by a policeman after breaking through police lines.
• 13. In Rugby League, Australia trounced France by sixty points to four.
• 14. Some speakers argued that boxing was less dangerous than rugby.
• 15. Australia's rugby union side enjoyed a record-breaking win over France.
• 16. The most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream.
• 17. I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
• 18. Lining a corridor is a wall of photographs spanning his rugby days.
• 19. He designed a church at Flecknoe, near Daventry, south of Rugby.
• 20. They hope to host concerts and cricket and rugby matches.
• 21. He used his column to spout ill-informed criticism of the Scots rugby team.
• 22. Australian rugby league enjoys a huge following in New Zealand.
• 23. Rugby and volleyball are also popular sports.
• 24. There were mixed fortunes for French rugby teams on tour.
• 25. Rugby's a rough game at the best of times.
• 26. Also rugby and handball have their adherents.
• 27. He skippered the second Rugby XV.
• 28. He had been the golden boy of Welsh rugby.
• 29. The rugby tour was a disaster both on and off the pitch.
• 30. The happy pair were spotted at a rugby match between England and Italy in 2007.
• 31. They have played an expansive style of rugby.
• 32. We need to let men know about alternatives to the style of football or rugby they played when they were 20.
• 33. The team has accustomed itself to the pace of first division rugby.
• 34. Rugby League football; Northern Union football;
• 35. The media have a mania about rugby union.
• 36. Rugby is my least favourite sport.
• 37. The hallowed turf of Twickenham is the venue for the Middlesex Rugby Sevens Finals.
• 38. While his interest in these sports began to wane, a passion for rugby developed.
• 39. The international rugby season is in full swing.
• 40. Australia's rugby union team for the return clash with New Zealand is weakened by injury.
• 41. When he was done, he looked like he'd been brawling with an entire rugby side.
• 42. The Pan Americano is the premier rugby competition held in the Americas.
• 43. The next Rugby World Cup will take place in three years' time.
• 44. New Zealand is at the top of the pecking order of rugby nations.
• 45. He rugby tackled her and stole her bag.
• 46. The popular sports are rugby league and football.
• 47. Rugby players don't often question the referee's decisions.
• 48. He has the physique of a rugby player.
• 49. Ballymore rugby union ground has been shortlisted as a possible home for Queensland softball.
• 50. At school I boxed and played rugby.
• 51. Kids from six years old play mini rugby at the club.
• 52. Mark was mainly interested in sport at school, playing rugby as well as soccer.
• 53. Rugby players must be rugged.
• 54. In rugby circles, there is nothing but criticism for the coverage of sport on terrestrial TV.
• 55. The Treviso team was an effective advertisement for the improving state of Italian club rugby.