English

Alternative forms

• quidditch

Noun

Quidditch ‎(uncountable)

1. A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.
   • 2003, Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park:

     Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.

   • 2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times:

     Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.

   • 2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007:

     Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in ****.

   • 2010 May 8, Brooks Barnes, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

     Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.

References

• Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least

Translations

English

Noun

quidditch ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of Quidditch
   • 2001, Virginia A. Walter, Children & Libraries: Getting It Right:

     We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.

   • 2009 September 16, Brooks Barnes, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times:

     The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer.

2. Muggle quidditch