cricket
Noun
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is a type of: orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect - any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthpartssubtypes:
- mole cricket - digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots
- acheta domestica, european house cricket - lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America
- acheta assimilis, field cricket - common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings
- tree cricket - pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation
belongs to: family gryllidae, gryllidae - crickets -
associated with:
- bowling - (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- hat trick - (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)
- cricket equipment - sports equipment used in playing cricket
- stump - (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- duck, duck's egg - (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
- over - (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
- maiden, maiden over - (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored
- snick - hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat
- bowl - hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
- round-arm - with the arm swung round at shoulder height
is a type of: field game - an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions
Verb
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is a type of: play - participate in games or sport
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