English

Proper noun

Rugby

1. A town in Warwickshire, England, where the sport of rugby is thought to have originated.
2. A city and county seat in North Dakota.

German

Pronunciation

Noun

Rugby m

1. rugby, rugby football

Luxembourgish

Noun

Rugby m ‎(uncountable)

1. rugby

English

rugby

Alternative forms

• Rugby

Noun

rugby ‎(countable and uncountable, plural rugbies)

1. (usually uncountable) A sport where players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.

   The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.

   The two rugbies split following a debate about amateurism.

2. (countable) A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.
   • 2003, B. Lawson Thornton, Misery Loves Company: The Diary of Kerri Mitchell, East River Press (ISBN 9780974018300)

     I don't know why, but for some reason people who work undercover for department store security always wear rugbies and khakis.

   • 2007, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: A Novel, Crown (ISBN 9780307419798), page 69

     Jansports and cargo pants were everywhere, set off with overstated polos, rugbies, and sweatshirts blaring the logos of hip hop designers.

   • 2015, Tony Jackson, FROM THE STREETS TO THE SHEETS, Page Publishing Inc (ISBN 9781634171519)

     I bought three jogging suits, a pair of Polo sneakers, and two rugbies.

Usage notes

Rugby is commonly used to refer specifically to the game of rugby union – for example, the Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament. Referring to rugby league simply as rugby is less common outside the sport's strongholds.

Synonyms

• rugby football, rugger

Hyponyms

• rugby league, league
• rugby union, RU, union
• rugby sevens, rugby 7s
• rugby tens, rugby 10s, ten-a-side rugby, 10-a-side rugby, ten-a-side, 10-a-side
• rugby fifteens, rugby 15s
• (obsolete) Canadian rules rugby (now evolved into Canadian football )
• (obsolete) American rules ruby / Harvard rules football (now evolved into American football )

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• rugby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby.

Noun

rugby ‎(uncountable)

1. (sports) rugby

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Rugby, (a brand of rubber cement by Bostik)

Noun

rugby

1. rubber cement, contact cement

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English rugby.

Noun

rugby

1. the sport of rugby

Czech

Alternative forms

• ragby

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby (sport).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈragbɪ/
• Hyphenation: rug‧by

Noun

rugby n (indeclinable)

1. rugby [20th c.]
   • 2006, Luboš Jeřábek (transl.), Fotbal – velký lexikon, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of Fussball-Lexikon by Bernd Rohr and Günter Simon, ISBN 80-247-1158-3, page 10:

     Ve škole v Rugby zakládá W. W. Ellis hru rugby (zvanou také rugbyfotbal, na rozdíl od pozdějšího asociačního fotbalu), při které je dovoleno hrát i rukama.

     W. W. Ellis founds a game called rugby (or rugby football, in contrast to later founded association football), in which it is allowed to play with hands, at a school in Rugby.

Derived terms

• rugbista
• rugbyový

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: rug‧by

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby.

Noun

rugby n ‎(uncountable)

1. rugby (sport)

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby.

Noun

rugby m ‎(uncountable)

1. rugby (sport)

Derived terms

• rugby à quinze
• rugby à treize
• rugbyman
• rugbywoman

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby.

Noun

rugby m ‎(invariable)

1. rugby (form of football)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• râguebi (Portugal)
• rúgbi (Brazil)

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐɡ.bi/

Noun

rugby m (uncountable)

1. rugby

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English rugby.

Noun

rugby m ‎(plural rugbys)

1. rugby