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- sports such as ping-pong and badminton that use small balls
- see also 大球[da4 qiu2]
Trad. 球場
- stadium
- sports ground
- court
- pitch
- field
- golf course
- CL:個|个[ge4],處|处[chu4]
- sports such as soccer, basketball and volleyball that use large balls
- see also 小球[xiao3 qiu2]
Trad. 顛球
- to juggle a soccer ball (i.e. keep it in the air using feet, thighs, head etc)
- (table tennis, badminton etc) to keep the ball in the air by bouncing it repeatedly on one's paddle or racquet
- (sports) trajectory of the ball
- method of dispatching the ball (e.g. in baseball: curveball, slider, fastball etc)
Trad. 擬球
- (math.) pseudosphere, a surface in ordinary space of constant negative curvature
- table tennis
- table tennis ball (Tw)
- billiards
- pool
- snooker (HK, Singapore, Malaysia)
- variant of 琉球[Liu2 qiu2], Ryūkyū, e.g. the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan
- (sports) high ball; lob
- (Tw, HK) golf (abbr. for 高爾夫球|高尔夫球[gao1 er3 fu1 qiu2])
- highball (cocktail)
- to receive a served ball (volleyball, tennis etc)
- to catch a ball thrown by sb
Trad. 開球
- open ball (math.)
- to start a ball game
- to kick off (soccer)
- to tee off (golf)
- to watch a football game (or other ball game)
- Fore! (golf)
- Watch out for the ball!
- Ryūkyū
- refers to the Ryūkyū Islands 琉球群島|琉球群岛[Liu2 qiu2 Qun2 dao3] stretching from Japan to Taiwan
- Liuchiu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
- person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents)
- (esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment
Trad. 變化球
- (baseball) breaking ball
- (fig.) curveball; unexpected turn of events
- Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) (telecommunications)
Trad. 地滾球
- ten-pin bowling
- bowling ball
- (baseball etc) ground ball
Trad. 界內球
- ball within bounds (sports)
- in
- fair ball (baseball)
Trad. 擦邊球
- (table tennis) edge ball
- (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
- (football) set piece (a restart of play following a stoppage, including free kicks, corner kicks, penalty kicks, goal kicks and throw-ins)
- to kick a ball around
- (fig.) to mutually shirk responsibility
- to pass the buck
- shower puff
- bath sponge
- bath ball (containing aromas or salts)