Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Should I say soccer game or soccer match? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago.
Active 7 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 62k times. Which is the more correct: soccer game or soccer match? Are they both equally valid? Improve this question. Franck Dernoncourt Franck Dernoncourt 4, 14 14 gold badges 60 60 silver badges bronze badges. Soccer teams play matches. Football match! Not that I like football, but still. Cerberus Soccer seems to have been accepted in Britain until the s or so, when, ironically, the rising popularity of the sport in the U.
Cerberus Antipus, please. Don't you understand Greek singulars? DavidWallace: What? Mormons use antipus? By the way: Trevisa Barth. Show 6 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1.
Kaz Kaz 6, 11 11 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Add a comment. Steve Jessop Steve Jessop 1, 8 8 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Sports are about health, fitness, confidence building, teamwork, and a zillion other life skills that your kid is benefiting from thanks to this love of sports.
He might not have won, but hopefully, he still enjoyed the chance to play. I saw you Think about the things you usually congratulate him on - the difficult tackles, the excellent teamwork, and the way he holds himself on the pitch - and talk about those. Good effort! This is a phrase that is useful during winning games too. Instead of focusing on the final result, your praise should focus on the effort that went into the game.
You seem disappointed This is an important point. Instead, talk about how he is feeling. Mark Mark 7 7 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Consider: baseball - "game" - originated in the US football American - "game" - originated in the US golf - "match" - originated in the UK basketball - "game" - originated in the US cricket - "match" - originated in the UK boxing modern - "match" - originated in the UK tennis - "match" - originated in the UK The sport where players kick a round ball around a field is a bit of a special case: it's a football match in the UK, but a soccer game in the US.
Improve this answer. In association football, the Laws of the Game make it clear it is a match. I would disagree with you; a "match" is a meeting between a given set of two or more competitors in which one or more games is played. The terms are interchangeable when a "match" consists of one "game", but a tennis "game" and a tennis "match" are both proper and very important terms in the context of the "sport", but are distinct ideas in the context of that sport. The terms are not always interchangeable even in meetings consisting of a single contest--no editor in the US would consider "basketball match" an acceptable substitute for "basketball game," for example.
No, but the very similar term "matchup" is roughly synonymous, referring to the meeting of the two teams to play the game, or the combination of the two teams themselves.
I wouldn't call it synonymous, as I rarely see it used formally. More often it seems to be a colloquialism used by sportswriters to add a bit of color to their stories, similar to calling a boxing competition a "bout. See the Wikipedia article on " game " for more attempts to differentiate between terms for various leisure activities: 1.
Community Bot 1. KeithS KeithS A match is not always a series of several games. For instance, a football soccer match is a one-time thing, e. Who won the Nigeria-Argentina match? Sames goes for cricket match , tennis match , etc. Good point. So, as edited, a "match" is simply the "event" in which a given set of opposing players compete in one or more "games".
Nice edit, Keith. This distinction is rarely recognized in American English tennis being an exception. In AE, you are more likely to see games consisting of rounds or heats for competitions in which the overall set of individual contests is considered the primary unit , or games grouped into series , tournaments , or tourneys for competitions in which the individual contests themselves are considered the primary units.
In US baseball, two teams play a "series" of games with each other. Thus the "World Series", but also the term is used for the regular season. Show 1 more comment.
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