kickoffs

Football opening plays

Kickoffs is the plural of kickoff, the opening play in football when the ball is kicked from a tee to start the game or resume after a score.

By extension, any beginning event: The company scheduled kickoffs for all new projects in January.

The term emphasizes a formal or ceremonial start rather than a gradual beginning.

sports

football

Field sport with goals

referee · onside · touchback · halftime · punt · return · field · tee · formation · strategy

beginning

initiation

Formal admission ceremony

genesis · onset · inauguration · launch · start · dawn · birth · advent · emergence · introduction

Categories
Opposites
game/event sequence

kickoffsfinal whistles

Sounds marking game's end

ends · conclusions · finales · closings · game overs

project/initiative timing

kickoffswrap-ups

Concluding summary sections

conclusions · finales · endings · closings · completions

Family

kickoff

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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G