flag football

noun

: a variation of football in which a player must remove a flag attached to the ballcarrier's clothing to stop the play

Examples of flag football in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two flag football standouts, Ayden Klaiber (transfer from Florida) and Ava Irwin (JSerra) have to sit out the first half of Sierra Canyon's season. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

Carrington played two years of flag football and then two years of tackle during her elementary school years. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

One of the ways the foundation will aim to reach kids is by organizing flag football games with direct funding from the NFL — like the one Obada recently watched at the park in his old neighborhood. — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026

As part of the partnership, flag football school programs across the country currently run by the AFA and NFL concurrently will all become NFL Flag branded and will enter the Australian Sports Commission’s (ASC) National Sporting Schools program. — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

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