Definition of "water polo" []

• A water sport with two teams of swimmers each of which tries to pass a ball into the other's goal. (noun)

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• "After a bit I handed her over to Charlie to dry, and played water polo (of sorts) with Peter and Chris, and after twenty minutes of that decided that even Evan Pentelow was a lesser task master."
• "At school he'd been on a team that played a water polo match against St. Mary's Hospital."