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A theoretical ball game played by fourteen players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals(from Harry Potter);

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Usage examples (29)
  • Enough of baseball and football, Quidditch is the game of the future!
  • I think in Quidditch, a lot of brooms would be put down in disgust the first time that happened ...
  • For those who don't read the books of J.K. Rowling, Quidditch is a fictitious wizarding sport played on broomsticks.
  • Not really worth bothering with, as it turns out; Quidditch is a one-joke game, stretched here to over a hundred well-padded pages.
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