beautiful game
English
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Etymology
[edit]Calque of Portuguese jogo bonito.
Noun
[edit]- (sometimes capitalized) association football; soccer.
- 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman[1]:
- Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
- 1990 December 18, Fauzi Omar, “Cheers to Kedah But Not At All to Fifa”, in New Straits Times, Malaysia, page 32:
- After watching Saturday's final, don't you agree that soccer is still the beautiful game that Pelé called it?
- (Canada) ice hockey.