Crossword answer · 5 letters
Rugby definition and meaning
RUG-bee · noun
RUGBY
What does Rugby mean?
Rugby names a family of team ball games involving carrying, passing, kicking, and tackling, including rugby union and rugby league.
What does RUGBY mean in a crossword?
RUGBY answers the reviewed clue “National sport of New Zealand.” The country is strongly associated with a particular oval-ball team sport.
Why is RUGBY useful to learn?
A national-team clue supplies sporting context, but the word is not another name for a country or for American football.
Common clue patterns
- A team ball sport
- Union or league, as a sport
- A game played with an oval ball
These are editorially written pattern summaries, not a reproduced puzzle archive.
Other meanings to watch
Rugby union and rugby league have different rules. A broad RUGBY clue should not be explained using a team size or rule that applies to only one code without saying which.