scrimmage


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Synonyms for scrimmage

(American football) practice play between a football team's squads

a noisy riotous fight

Related Words

practice playing (a sport)

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Ravena, however, won't take part in the scrimmages due to his ongoing FIBA suspension.
Marcial on Thursday said the Boomers' schedule in preparation for the World Cup is already packed and that there's no way for the Philippines to face them in a scrimmage, which what was Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas initially wanted to happen.
"Scrimmage" is the first scholarly exhibition to survey football in art and to demonstrate that a multitude of artists have made important images of this quintessential American sport.
The free event begins with a scrimmage from noon to approximately 1:30 p.m.
After the scrimmage, Young and the rest of the Lakers understood that it was just Bryant's means of motivating them.
The Family Night tailgate party culminated a weeklong sweepstakes in which customers at Pick 'n Save and Copps stores in Green Bay, Bellevue, Appleton and Kimberly had a chance to win tickets to the Packers scrimmage. Additionally, the first 25,000 fans attending the game received store gift cards and free samples of Roundy's products.
The vast majority coach teams that scrimmage informally with other schools.
No, that's not a football audible at the line of scrimmage, but the accomplishments of the Small Diameter Bomb Program: the number of months--19--from the system design and development contract award to the first production contract award; the number of months--23--from development award to the start of operational test; the number of successful weapon drops--35--in the number of tests--37; and the design life of system hardware in years--20--for the small-diameter bomb weapon system.
The Swede broke his finger during the final scrimmage game with Frankfurt in St Petersburg at the weekend but coach Jack Bicknell said: 'We expect Jens to be back in a few weeks.'
However, every office scrimmage or argument over who's responsible for a particular task involves potential realignments of territory.
Pana JFL and high school football teams will be introduced and the high school team will scrimmage on Friday, August 23.
The 26-year-old Rosario attended practice on Tuesday at Meralco Gym, his first on court appearance after suffering a bad fall in TNT's game against Phoenix on Wednesday, but could only watch his teammates during the scrimmage.
"But like the scrimmage before, as the scrimmage went on they got a little tired, so the offense started to make plays and there was a lot of touchdowns thrown and run.