Meaning of tunnelball | Babel Free

Definitions

A children's game in which players stand in line with their feet apart, making a tunnel with their legs, down which the lead player propels a ball back to the last player, who runs with it to the front of the line and repeats; played competitively between teams for speed, or by a single team for recreation or exercise.

Australia, UK, uncountable

Examples

“1994, Mark⟳ Brandon “Chopper” Read⟳, Chopper 4: For the Term of His Unnatural Life, 2012, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page, They run⟳ the sports for ten days. This includes weightlifting, football, tennis, table tennis, cards, scrabble, chess, draughts, darts, quoits, volleyball, baseball, frisbee tossing, tunnelball, scramble ball, the piggyback race⟳, the egg and spoon race⟳, target⟳ handball, the spit⟳ the dummy contest, […] .”

“I went along to my children′s sports day and found myself cheering madly at the tunnelball games and when they played Chariots of Fire over the running races – it was all I could do not to get⟳ up and break⟳ the record⟳ for the four minute mile myself.”

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