BALLS Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun (1)

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plural of ball

as in spheres

a more or less round body or mass the little rubber ball used in racquetball a ball of string

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as in bullets

a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm found a cache of musket balls while excavating the old fort

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plural of ball

as in dances

a social gathering for dancing a ball to celebrate the inauguration

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verb

present tense third-person singular of ball

as in rounds

to form into a round compact mass balled up the paper and threw it at the garbage can

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Recent Examples of balls

Noun

Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70. —

Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026 Cantanucci’s property line is 72 feet away, but her hearing is such that the sound of balls bouncing and people yelping jumped the hedgerows. —

Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2026 Presidential inaugural balls, Le Bal des Débutantes, state dinners, and high society weddings still call for white tie. —

Vogue, 27 Mar. 2026 Bogaerts began this season with some loud contact, putting four balls in play at 102 mph or harder and going 2-for-4 yesterday. —

Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026 Despite that, footage shown in court showed officers still firing pepper balls at protesters running away from tear gas and other munitions. —

Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026 Johnny Joestar, a paraplegic former jockey who’s already wealthy, joins not for the money, but to pursue Gyro, a strange man with two strange spinning electric balls that seemingly can give him the ability to walk again. —

Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026 The balls are available now at Dick’s Sporting Goods stores nationwide. —

Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 27 Mar. 2026 How to play the Powerball To play, select five numbers from 1 to 69 for the white balls, then select one number from 1 to 26 for the red Powerball. —

Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026

Verb

The second and third outs were called third strikes, both of them initially balls before All-Star catcher Realmuto challenged through the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), or so called robot umpires, that will be used in the regular season for the first time this year. —

CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026 Arrange dough balls 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheets. —

Holly Riordan, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2026 Each team received their shipment of logo balls several weeks ago from the Wilson factory so that equipment managers would be able to properly prepare the footballs for their respective offenses. —

Kristi Scales jan. 5, Dallas Morning News, 5 Jan. 2026 Place balls 3 inches apart on 3 large baking sheets lined with parchment paper (about 12 cookies per sheet). —

Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025 Defense overall just balls Two. —

Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025

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Duncanville first baseman Madison Lee (7) rounds second base with enthusiasm after igniting Panthers players and fans by hitting a grand slam home run during the top of the 3rd inning of play against Waxahachie.

— Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 28 Mar. 2026
Elena Anaya rounds out the singular cast.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2026