Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
frescobol
English translation:
frescobol or paddleball / paddle ball
Added to glossary by
Anitsa
May 26, 2008 21:44
16 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
frescobol
Non-PRO
Portuguese to English
Other
Sports / Fitness / Recreation
beach sports
How do you say frescobol in English?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | frescobol or paddleball / paddle ball |
Richard Jenkins
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| 5 +1 | smashball (or even 'frescobol') |
Alyson Steele Weickert, Ph.D.
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| 4 | "frescobol" (beach racketball) |
Heloisa Ferreira
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Proposed translations
10 mins
Richard Jenkins
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
Brazil
Translator and Editor
Native in: English 
Works in: Portuguese to English, Spanish to English, English
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frescobol or paddleball / paddle ball
Personally, I wouldn't translate it; just leave it as 'frescobol', but if you do want a translation, the nearest is 'paddleball / paddle ball'.
http://www.amazon.com/Frescobol-Racquet-Paddle-Paddleball-Sm...
Paddleball Web Site, Tournaments, Events, Places to Play, Paddles ...
paddles for all paddle sports, paddle racquets, paddle balls, sport accessories, paddle tournaments, where to play, finding people to play paddle, ...
www.paddleball.com/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
paddleball.org - Home
Offers tournament schedules, entry forms, and rules for this 4-Wall organization. Also offers resources for 1-Wall and 4-Wall games.
www.paddleball.org/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
Paddle ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paddle ball is a one-person game played with an attached ball and paddle. Using a flat paddle with a small rubber ball attached at the center via an elastic ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddleball
Good luck :)
http://www.amazon.com/Frescobol-Racquet-Paddle-Paddleball-Sm...
Paddleball Web Site, Tournaments, Events, Places to Play, Paddles ...
paddles for all paddle sports, paddle racquets, paddle balls, sport accessories, paddle tournaments, where to play, finding people to play paddle, ...
www.paddleball.com/ - 11k - Cached - Similar pages
paddleball.org - Home
Offers tournament schedules, entry forms, and rules for this 4-Wall organization. Also offers resources for 1-Wall and 4-Wall games.
www.paddleball.org/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages
Paddle ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paddle ball is a one-person game played with an attached ball and paddle. Using a flat paddle with a small rubber ball attached at the center via an elastic ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddleball
Good luck :)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "It seems like the game (played on the beach) can be called frescobol, paddleball, smashball or prokadima. They're all synonymous, right?"
14 mins
Heloisa Ferreira
Brazil
Brazil
Native in Portuguese
Works in field
Brazil
Medicine and gaming, 10+ experience
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese
"frescobol" (beach racketball)
Eu deixaria assim, "frescobol" entre aspas, e o equivalente em inglês entre parênteses.
Racketball é um esporte jogado com as raquetes de madeira, e com dois jogadores. Acredito que "paddleball" seja uma raquete só, com uma bola amarrada a um fio, e que pode ser jogado por uma pessoa só.
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Note added at 14 mins (2008-05-26 21:59:51 GMT)
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Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court. Joe Sobek invented the sport in 1948, incorporating rules from squash and handball. Unlike most racquet sports, such as tennis or badminton, the court's walls, floor, and ceiling are legal playing surfaces, rather than out-of-bounds.
Racketball é um esporte jogado com as raquetes de madeira, e com dois jogadores. Acredito que "paddleball" seja uma raquete só, com uma bola amarrada a um fio, e que pode ser jogado por uma pessoa só.
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Note added at 14 mins (2008-05-26 21:59:51 GMT)
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Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court. Joe Sobek invented the sport in 1948, incorporating rules from squash and handball. Unlike most racquet sports, such as tennis or badminton, the court's walls, floor, and ceiling are legal playing surfaces, rather than out-of-bounds.
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19 mins
Alyson Steele Weickert, Ph.D.
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
Brazil
Ph.D English
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English
smashball (or even 'frescobol')
Frescobol and Smashball show similar pictures in Google images
http://www.frescobol.com/frescobol/howtoplay.html
used frescobol in an English text
smashball at
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sport-Design-Beach-Tennis-Smashball-wood...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006053016948 gives
Anyone know about or ever played Smash Ball or Frescobol?
http://www.frescobol.com/frescobol/howtoplay.html
used frescobol in an English text
smashball at
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sport-Design-Beach-Tennis-Smashball-wood...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006053016948 gives
Anyone know about or ever played Smash Ball or Frescobol?
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