Meaning of Quidditch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
   uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of Quidditch.
   alt-of, uncountable
3. Muggle quidditch
   broadly, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.”

“Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.”

“Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.”

“Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.”

“We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.”

“The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer.”

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