noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a football/rugby/tennis etc match
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There was a rugby match going on on the school field.
a tennis/cricket/golf/rugby etc ball
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She was practising hitting golf balls.
football/cricket/rugby etc pitch
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the world-famous Wembley football pitch
football/rugby/riding/ski boots
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Take your muddy football boots off before you come inside.
Rugby League
Rugby Union
tennis/football/rugby etc coaching
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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Perhaps his initial success shouldn't have been all that surprising for he comes of good rugby stock.
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I was no good at rugby and hopeless at cricket.
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Who has played the better rugby ?
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The best rugby , though, was yet to come stemming from a tigerish rally inspired by a local lad.
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I was no good at rugby so I took up rowing.
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After the restart North started to play better rugby gaining more possession and putting Malone under pressure for the first fifteen minutes.
international
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In conclusion, I fully endorse your desire to avoid confrontational behaviour surrounding international rugby .
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The lecture lasted for 45 minutes and provided an interesting and amusing insight into the world of international rugby .
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With hopes of unity in the Western Cape there is a real prospect of international rugby once again this season.
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On first impressions, Krynauw Otto is one of the scariest sights in international rugby .
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Welcome to international rugby union, Jason Robinson.
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The provincial competition should be a valuable stepping-stone to international rugby .
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His tackling this year has been phenomenal, even by international rugby standards.
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His only previous taste of international rugby was as an interval replacement against the Wallabies last year.
■ NOUN
ball
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Finding a rugby ball , they practised drop kicks in the boathouse, much to Jurgen's annoyance.
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Mould slid the rugby ball on to the hook, and threw it into the water.
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Royal Rovers, who joined in 1894, were so strapped they played with a rugby ball .
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On a given signal from the tannoy system we were all required to punt a rugby ball into the crowd.
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He designed his jumper with a regular pattern of rugby posts and a rugby ball in his extra art lessons at school.
club
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Five years ago rugby club chiefs were in favour of selling but the cricket club committee was firmly against.
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The rugby club are helping with the organisation.
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It led to the rugby club ending the talks.
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It is understood the rugby club favours the development which could net £5m.
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Bicester rugby club drive towards another Twickenham appearance when they travel to Ongar tomorrow in the quarter finals of the Provincial Cup.
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A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park.
coach
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It's all the brainchild of Oxford University rugby coach Lynn Evans.
fan
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Read in studio Police have now named the three rugby fans who were killed when their light aircraft crashed into a field.
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Three rugby fans killed in light plane crash.
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This really is a must for any rugby fan .
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Three rugby fans who were flying back from a match in Dublin were killed in the accident.
field
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Kinnock fils, who is no mean performer on the rugby field , has developed a taste for academe.
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It stirs in the mud of rugby fields and in the mist of recent films that romanticize clan heroes.
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There is, however, no earthly explanation for his imperious contributions on the rugby field .
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I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field .
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He recently admitted in his autobiography that he had used violence on the rugby field on at least4 three occasions.
football
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And he was in the rugby football team - Rich was proud as proud.
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His other recreations included golf, rugby football and shooting.
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They cut right across the basic philosophy of rugby football - that is, to go forward and make ground.
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Woods was not only a successful cricketer; he excelled at rugby football .
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Most important of all, though, rugby football gave Burton a real and early taste of fame.
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His chief activity, however, was rugby football .
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When I came round I told myself I should stick to gentler sporting pursuits ... like rugby football .
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It cuts right across everything we believe rugby football should be about - driving forward, gaining ground and exerting pressure.
match
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The women at the sidelines of the rugby match had become very rowdy indeed.
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A rugby match was in progress.
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A recent rugby match between Tredworth and Fleetwood at Moseley's ground saw rival supporters clash during the match.
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There was a rugby match when we went down 89 points to nil.
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No one runs up and kisses you in a rugby match .
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He enjoys a stroll across the Abbey's fields, sometimes forgetting there's a rugby match going on.
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But the university authorities agreed to rearrange an examination to allow him to play in a Varsity rugby match at Twickenham.
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And then he blagged a twin-engined Squirrel helicopter to take him home from a rugby match .
nation
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After the latest tango in Paris, there is a very real sense of a rugby nation in crisis.
pitch
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Since the school took up so much space on the island, the rugby pitches were the size of tennis courts.
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An orderly queue was formed, stretching throughout the corridors of Hardside and out on to the rugby pitches .
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He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch .
player
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The man was thickset and heavy, like a rugby player , the woman thin and bony.
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He was a promising young rugby player , either at full-back or three-quarter.
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First, that rugby players are a highly intelligent, dedicated and wise bunch.
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It was hardly a situation conducive to producing a relaxed and committed rugby player , just newly married.
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Harris was a large man, energetic, powerfully built, and a keen boxer and rugby player in his youth.
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At school he had been an ace rugby player and had become a big burly man.
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Nostalgia tends to be an acute instinct in most sportsmen: in rugby players it can be positively overwhelming.
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The tough rugby player at first put the pain of his acute appendicitis down to the after-effects of his stag night.
team
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In a recent meeting with council officials, he reiterated his call for its retention for the rugby team .
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The rugby team is from a rural ancestral world where traditions run unbroken.
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Also in Featherstone we have a rugby team which will win the cup this year.
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It will differ again in the case of the captain of the rugby team , or a parish priest.
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Ultra-confident, dashing and with a swashbuckling air he is the archetypal head boy or captain of the rugby team .
union
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Is there not one prominent rugby union footballer or journalist who is compelled to criticize this scandalous and absurd state of affairs?
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After all, rugby union has been the poor footballer brother to rugby league in Sydney for decades.
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Nigel Henderson is a consultant who's involved in the management of rugby union and deals with worst of these cases.
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Yet the events at Murrayfield illustrated just what a complex sport rugby union actually is.
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Davies speaks volumes Robert Armstrong on the biography destined to be a rugby union classic.
world
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If we all pull together, then we can be a successful force in world rugby again.
■ VERB
play
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He said Ireland would play attacking, 15-man rugby .
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More than that, it played attractive rugby .
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Do they want to carry on playing rugby ?
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He used to play rugby , and according to the coach it shows.
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He was attacked and stabbed in the chest in the town centre, after playing rugby for the college team.
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Very few people want to play rugby league.
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He is adamant that he will not be tempted back to play rugby .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A seven-hour festival of youth rugby will be staged at Bristol's Memorial Ground next Sunday.
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First though it's rugby and crunch time in the Courage League tomorrow.
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He claimed players applying for reinstatement should not be prejudiced by the amount of money they received from rugby league.
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I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary, but nothing like this.
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The rugby club are helping with the organisation.
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The Human Piranha was short and square, like the hooker on a rugby team.
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Very few people want to play rugby league.