pesäpallo — meaning in English

English meaning

• baseball noun A bat-and-ball sport, especially popular in the US, Caribbean and parts of East Asia, in which players score by hitting a ball and running around four bases.

Senses

pesäpallo is used for these senses in English:

• baseball The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
• pesäpallo A sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball.

baseball — full definition

1. noun A bat-and-ball sport, especially popular in the US, Caribbean and parts of East Asia, in which players score by hitting a ball and running around four bases.
2. noun The small, hard ball used to play this sport.

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