water polo

See also: waterpolo, water-polo, and wáter-polo

English

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Noun

water polo (uncountable)

1. A water sport consisting of two teams of swimmers who have to throw the ball into the opponent's goal.

Translations

a water sport

Arabic: كُرَة اَلْمَاء f (kurat al-māʔ) Armenian: ջրագնդակ (hy) (ǰragndak) Bulgarian: водна топка f (vodna topka) Carpathian Rusyn: во́дноє по́ло n (vódnoje pólo) Catalan: waterpolo (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 水球 (zh) (shuǐqiú) Czech: vodní pólo n Danish: vandpolo (da) c Dutch: waterpolo (nl) n Esperanto: akvopilko Finnish: vesipoolo, vesipallo (fi) French: waterpolo (fr) m Galician: wáter-polo (gl) m Georgian: წყალბურთი (c̣q̇alburti), ვატერპოლო (vaṭerṗolo) German: Wasserball (de) m Greek: υδατοσφαίριση (el) f (ydatosfaírisi) Hungarian: vízilabda (hu) Irish: póló uisce m Italian: pallanuoto (it) f Japanese: 水球 (ja) (すいきゅう, suikyū), ウォーターポロ (ja) (wōtāporo) Kazakh: су добы (su doby) Korean: 수구(水球) (ko) (sugu), 워터 폴로 (woteo pollo) Macedonian: ватерполо (mk) n (vaterpolo) Norwegian: Bokmål: vannpolo m Polish: piłka wodna (pl), waterpolo (pl) Portuguese: polo aquático (pt) m Romanian: polo pe apă Russian: ватерпо́ло (ru) n (vatɛrpólo), во́дное по́ло (ru) n (vódnoje pólo) Serbo-Croatian: ватерполо n, vaterpolo (sh) m Slovene: vaterpolo (sl) m Spanish: polo acuático, waterpolo (es) Swedish: vattenpolo (sv) Turkish: su topu (tr) Ukrainian: водне поло (vodne polo) Yiddish: וואַסער־פּאָלאָ m (vaser-polo)

Further reading

• water polo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• poolwater

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.tɛʁ pɔ.lo/

Noun

water polo m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of waterpolo