rugby n : a form of football played with an oval ball [syn: rugby football, rugger]

see Rugby

English

Alternative spellings

• Rugby

Etymology

1823: Named after Rugby School in Warwickshire where William Webb Ellis ‘with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game’. From the plaque at the school.

Noun

rugby

1. Sport from Rugby, England where players in a team of 15 attempt to score points by touching an ovid ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar

   The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.

Synonyms

• rugger

Derived terms

• rugby ball
• Rugby League, rugby league
• Rugby Union, rugby union

Translations

• Croatian: ragbi
• Dutch: rugby
• Finnish: rugby
• French: rugby
• Tongan: aka pulu
• Russian: регби (régbi)

Rugby may refer to:

Rugby football

• Rugby football in various forms:
  • Rugby union
  • Rugby league
  • Rugby sevens
  • College rugby
  • Tag Rugby
  • Touch rugby
  • Wheelchair rugby

Places

*Rugby, Warwickshire, England: the town from which all of these names stem

• • Rugby (borough)
  • Rugby and Kenilworth (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Rugby (UK Parliament constituency), former constituency
  • Rugby railway station
  • Rugby School
• Rugby Park, Scotland (Kilmarnock FC's stadium)
• Rugby, New South Wales
• Rugby Park Stadium
• Rugby, Cape Town
• Rugby, Indiana
• Rugby, Brooklyn, New York
• Rugby, North Dakota
  • Rugby (Amtrak station)
• Rugby, Tennessee

Other uses

• Rugby (automobile)
• Rugby transmitting station, a very low frequency radio transmission facility
• Rugby Ralph Lauren, a brand from Ralph Lauren
• Baron Rugby of Rugby in the County of Warwick, a title in the British peerage
• Rugby Fives, a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court