0 a sport where two teams try to score points by carrying an oval ball across a particular line or kicking it over and between an H-shaped set of posts:
1 a game played between two teams using an oval-shaped ball that is kicked or carried to goals at either end of a field
She spends her Saturday afternoons standing on the touchline, watching her boyfriend play rugby.
Six rugby internationals were charged with taking drugs to improve their performance.
Before a rugby match, the New Zealand team perform a Maori war dance.
The school playing fields were marked out for football and rugby.
In contrast, the skills, athleticism, and success of the colonial tourists seemed to demonstrate how rugby could help to develop a healthy, masculine nation.
In fact, rugby of whatever code occupied a distant second place compared to the popularity of soccer with troops on active service.
I turned up for my first ever movement class in my rugby kit, shorts and a striped top!
