tetherball

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  1. noun A game played by two people using the hands or paddles and a ball hung by a cord from an upright post, the objective being to wind the cord around the post.

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  • It was the guy on the ground, the one he had batted with the stick like a tetherball. —  Lost Echoes by Joe R Lansdale
  • The pitch-black playground, freshly tarred and newly painted with the icons of the playground - the hopscotch squares, the boundaries for hoops, kickball, tetherball and four-square, the cakewalk for the various carnivals and fiestas, the outlines of all the states of the country. —  Long Beach Press Telegram Most Viewed
  • At school he shares his current event with the class, plays tetherball, talks about hunting wolverines in Alaska with a frickin '12 gauge, and gets bullied. —  Releaselog | RLSLOG.net
  • I can still feel the wind in my hair as I twirled over the bars ... the slap of my hand on the tetherball ... the whoosh of the jump rope over my head. —  Blogger KING
  • The 9-year-old (who noted that she is almost 10 and sometimes goes by Lola) lit up when she listed the sports she loves: basketball, soccer, track, tetherball and her favorite: snowboarding.
 

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