Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To play the game of polo.

  2. (intransitive)To give the cry of "polo!" in the marco polo game.

Examples

27 sentences

  1. Are you a big polo fan?

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  2. When I was in high school, I played water polo in gym class.

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  3. Tom joined the water polo team.

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  4. I like water polo.

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  5. Does Tom play polo?

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Origin

From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ

From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).

From the game marco polo, from the explorer Marco Polo, from Latin Paulus.

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Forms

polos, poloing, poloed, poloed
Base formpolo · to polo
3rd person singularpolos
Present participlepoloing
Past simplepoloed
Past participlepoloed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypolo
he, she, itpolos

Past simpleLesson

all personspoloed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave poloed
he, she, ithas poloed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill polo

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
polluteA2polluterpollutionA1poltergeistpoly

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