fulbito
Spanish
Noun
fulbito m (uncountable)
- (Rioplatense, Bolivia) noncompetitive football
- (colloquial, Rioplatense, Bolivia, sports) play which is flashy but not strategic or effective
- (Peru) football played on a small pitch
- 2016 September, “Adiós Mosquera, ¿hola Juan?”, in El Comercio[1]:
- Lo estético como exhibición le sigue importando menos que el Día del Periodista, pero ahora ya incorpora uno que otro talentoso esté en decadencia o no, ya no pone once jugadores de fulbito de mano, todos igualitos.
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- (Ecuador, Bolivia) futsal
- Synonym: fútbol sala
- (Argentina) foosball
- Synonym: metegol
Further reading
- “fulbito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024