kickabout
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He even met his wife while playing a coed kickabout in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Hearn will always find that competitive edge "whether it's Jenga, table tennis or a kickabout in the garden".
From BBC ● May 30, 2024
That casual kickabout soon evolved into an 11-a-side club through which the project could be delivered.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2023
When Anthony Gibbons joined a Sunday morning kickabout, he didn't imagine it would lead to being David Beckham's body double.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023
He’d been having a kickabout earlier with two other boys, but now he was alone, juggling the ball about in the air.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Children and adults alike have kickabouts — some in organized matches at the grassroots level and others just for the fun of it on dirt roads and beaches.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
The lush green lawn at the back of the house was once worn bare by the teen's kickabouts.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2022
Football at the prison comes in the form of kickabouts, practices, friendlies.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2015
It set the stage for the Christmas truce and those magic kickabouts.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2014
Most infectious of all was his clear fondness for the game, always playing with a smile on his face and treating auspicious occasions as if they were kickabouts in the local park.
From Time ● Feb. 6, 2013
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