kickabout

American  

[kik-uh-baut] / ˈkɪk əˌbaʊt /

noun

• kickabouts
  plural

1. a casual game of soccer, primarily played as a way to pass time.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• kickabouts
  plural

Example Sentences

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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

Broad choked up when he told Joe Root, then passed on responsibility for organising the team kickabout in the warm-up to Ben Duckett.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

Now, three years earlier than doctors predicted, he is enjoying a kickabout in his first pair of football boots.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022

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

Some eyewitness accounts say they were highlighted by something as remarkable as a few football 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