Football (disambiguation) explained

Football is a family of sports that involve kicking with the foot or carrying in the hands a ball to score points.

Football may refer to:

Sports

• Association football (known as football in most of the world and soccer in North America, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland)
• Australian rules football
• Gaelic football (known as football in Ireland)
• Gridiron football (known as football in North America and gridiron in Australia and New Zealand)
  • American football
  • Canadian football
• International rules football
• Rugby football
  • Rugby league
  • Rugby union
• Football (ball), any of several types of balls used to play the football sports
  • Ball (association football)
  • Gaelic ball
  • Ball (gridiron football)
  • Rugby ball

Entertainment

• Football (board game), a game simulating association football
• "Football" (Adventure Time), a television episode
• "Football" (Drake & Josh), a television episode
• Football (film), a 1982 Indian Malayalam film
• Football (magazine), a Russian association football and ice hockey magazine
• Football (1978 video game), an American football arcade and Atari 2600 game
• NFL Football (video game), an American football game for Intellivision (1979) and the Atari 2600 (1982)

Other uses

• Football (word), an English-language word with various meanings and uses
• Football Mountain, an Antarctic mountain
  • The Football (Antarctica), a bare rock scar on the mountain
• Nuclear football, or the football, a briefcase carrying a triggering device to allow the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack

See also

• • • Ball (disambiguation)