polo

Plural: polos

Noun

• A team sport played on horseback with mallets and a ball.
• Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)
• a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball
• A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.
• The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
• A polo shirt.
• A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.
• A dress shirt.

Intj

• Alternative letter-case form of Polo.

Examples

• The short word POLO can often open up long plays in Scrabble.

Synonyms

Marco Polo