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Definition of Passing play
1. Noun. (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate. "The coach sent in a passing play on third and long"
Category relationships: American Football, American Football Game
Generic synonyms: Football Play
Specialized synonyms: Aerial, Forward Pass, Lateral, Lateral Pass, Spot Pass
Derivative terms: Pass, Pass
Literary usage of Passing play
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quaker Poets of Great Britain and Ireland by Evelyn Noble Armitage (1896)
"... The boats look so small in the tiny bay,— It must be a dream, or a passing play.
Masses of leaves wherever you look, Rich autumn colour in every nook, ..."
2. Football: The Rugby Union Game by Francis Marshall (1892)
"... under Vassall, were already bringing their scrummage and passing play to
perfection. This capable leader, with as fine a body of athletes under him as ..."
3. Kant's Kritik of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (1892)
"... communicable—whether the expression be in speech or painting or statuary—this
requires a faculty of seizing the quickly passing play of Imagination and ..."
4. The Struggle for Immortality by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1889)
"A literary view of Christ is a passing play. It is phenomenal like the snow-flake
of the South. It drops into graceful hands outstretched for the last fine ..."
5. On Beauty: Three Discourses Delivered in the University of Edinburgh by John Stuart Blackie (1858)
"... upon a holiday,—a frothy bubble upon the surface of the deep ocean, to make
a passing play of iridescent light in the sun, and twinkle, and expire ? ..."
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