kickabout
nounEtymology From kick + about.
1
An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
- Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107:
- Synonyms
- kickaround
- Related terms
- pick-up game