A game in which two people use their hands or paddles to hit a ball suspended on a cord from an upright post, the winner being the first person to wind the cord completely around the post.
Example sentencesExamples
With snake eyes and a bully like laugh, he devilishly teases his son in a friendly game of tetherball.
Amanda could not help but notice the tetherball swinging only ever so slightly back and forth behind Red.
Hey, Samantha, wanna play tetherball with me?
‘And you played tetherball with me at lunch, and you would always let me win,’ he chimed in.
Emily played tetherball at recess with her students.
Definition of tetherball in US English:
tetherball
nounˈteT͟Hərˌbôlˈtɛðərˌbɔl
A game in which two people use their hands or paddles to hit a ball suspended on a cord from an upright post, the winner being the first person to wind the cord completely around the post.
Example sentencesExamples
Emily played tetherball at recess with her students.
‘And you played tetherball with me at lunch, and you would always let me win,’ he chimed in.
Hey, Samantha, wanna play tetherball with me?
Amanda could not help but notice the tetherball swinging only ever so slightly back and forth behind Red.
With snake eyes and a bully like laugh, he devilishly teases his son in a friendly game of tetherball.