indoor soccer

American  

noun

1. a form of soccer played indoors by two teams of six players each, usually on a hockey rink covered with a temporary floor with walls to keep the ball in play, in which a player who commits a foul is penalized by suspension from play for a certain amount of time, as in hockey.

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Example Sentences

Before MLS, indoor soccer was the most popular form of the game in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Andonovski, a native of Skopje, Macedonia, played for several teams in Europe before embarking on a professional indoor soccer career in the United States.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023

Pictures of Rabbis adorn the walls of the modern building, which also has an indoor soccer pitch and a snooker table.

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2023

“You don’t get paid a lot for being a coach in Montgomery County for soccer,” said Sean, who met Keiller after an adult-league game at the Corner Kick, a former indoor soccer facility in Gaithersburg.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

There was a fence made to look like ornate wrought iron around the little platform yard, which was done up with synthetic turf scraps left over from the indoor soccer field in Billings.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth