kickabout

plural kickabouts

1. ball gamesAn informal amateur game of football/soccer.

   Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107

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   We’re at a photo studio in London. Coleen [Rooney] is studiously going through the clothes, while Wayne [Rooney] is looking out of the window, studying the primary school kids playing seven-a-side. You sense he’d like to get out there for a kickabout.

   2026 September 19, Simon Hattenstone, “‘We’ve been on a good run lately. We’ve not had a row for weeks!’: Coleen and Wayne Rooney on marriage, mistakes and making reality TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: kickaround