rugby players

Oval ball athletes

Rugby players are athletes who play rugby, a contact sport involving carrying, passing, and kicking an oval ball.

The term often evokes a particular physical type—broad-shouldered, thick-necked, and sturdy—along with associations of toughness and camaraderie: He had the build of a rugby player.

The rugby players gathered at the pub after the match.

Opposites
sport/athletic pursuit

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Competitors at the board

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sport type

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Those who play the sport

footballers

athletic archetype

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Artists performing classical movement

jockeys · distance runners · gymnasts · figure skaters · divers

Family

play, player, playing, played, players, rugby, playfulness, playable, playmaker

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G