polo
Plural: polos
Noun
- 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.
- pl. -LOS a game played on horseback
Intj
- Alternative letter-case form of Polo.
Origin / Etymology
From Balti پولو (polo, “ball”). Cognate with Tibetan པོ་ལོ (po lo), ཕོ་ལོང (pho long), སྤོ་ལོ (spo lo, “ball”).
Synonyms
Marco Polo
Scrabble Score: 6
polo: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpolo: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
polo: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
polo is a valid Words With Friends word