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American football

 
noun [U] UK (US football)

Definition

a game for two teams of eleven players in which each team tries to kick, run with, or throw an oval ball across the opposing team's goal line
(Definition of American football noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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