kickball
noun
kickball is a noun meaning “A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is pitched at a kicker, and is kicked rather than hit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-C-K-B-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kickball is kickballs.
What does kickball mean?
noun
- 1
A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is pitched at a kicker, and is kicked rather than hit.
- 2
The ball used in the above sport.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kickball
- kickballs plural
- kick-ball
- kick ball
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kickball?
Kickball appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with kickball
Also written: kick-ball (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does kickball come from?
From kick + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).