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ROWND-uh-z/ˈraʊndəz/

Rounders is a UK team game in which you hit a ball and run round bases (often uncountable). Cricket uses wickets and a different bat; baseball is the US cousin with different scoring. PE: rounders is on the rota; baseball rules are not the same scoring.

Meaning

A UK team game in which you hit a ball and run round bases (often uncountable).

Examples

• “Rounders is on the PE rota; baseball rules are not the same scoring.”
• “A rounders post is still a post, not a wicket; arguing the cricket rulebook is not PE.”

Good to know

rounders (UK game, often uncountable). Contrast: cricket / baseball. PE. Mix-up: rounder is not the usual word; the game is rounders. Extra: a rounder is a score in the game.

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