softball
[ C ]
the ball used in the game of baseball:
He had a baseball and a couple of bats in his sports bag.
His fame is rooted in his extraordinary ability to hit baseballs where fielders could not catch them.
 
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College baseball teams across the country are getting ready for the new season.
This 21-year-old is now perhaps the best player in baseball.
Joe is passionate about baseball .
He was a member of the varsity baseball team.他是学校棒球队的队员。
Where is the bag with the baseball bats in it?
He had large hands - so large he could hold seven baseballs in one hand.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
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hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
sac
solo
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
stretch

baseball | American Dictionary

baseball
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈbeɪsˌbɔl/
a game with two teams of nine players in which a ball, thrown by a pitcher, is hit by a player with a bat (= special stick) who then tries to run around four bases before being stopped by the other team
A baseball is the ball used in this game.

Examples of baseball

baseball
Here are words peculiar to baseball, as well as ordinary words (spitter, receiver, farmhand) the special definitions of which won't be found in most dictionaries.
On the other side of the continuum would be, for example, intense focus during batting at a baseball game.
Wouldn't mention of baseball enrich these introductory offerings?
Another young man in the wider semicircle wore a baseball hat.
Although some teams and leagues were integrated, baseball was never as democratic and meritocratic as its promoters claimed.
It may be time to add baseball free agents to that list.
In baseball, the contributions of individuals can overwhelm the concept of team.
There is an allotted number of innings, a life span if you will, but the duration of a baseball game is not fixed.
Consider the case of projectile motion, such as a baseball hit by a batter.
Imagine a baseball being hit into the air and notice the trajectory it follows.
Baseball terms that have extended beyond the sport are also noted.
The entire second quotation was written in baseball terms.
For example, when asked for an apple, children picked a banana as often as they picked a baseball.
They dress in jeans and baseball caps, and are often broke and bored.
For every window broken by a thrown baseball, there is someone liable for the repair.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withbaseball

baseball

These are words often used in combination with baseball.

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amateur baseball
When the season is over, however, the field is transformed into a baseball field and allows for amateurbaseball teams to play.
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