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A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals. quotations examples
Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.
2003, “Universal Lifts the Veil on a Harry Potter Park”, in New York Times
Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.
2007 December 16, Ethan Todras-Whitehill, “In Tikal, Temples in the Mist”, in New York Times
Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.
2007, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007
Eton’s playing fields are famous, not least because of the Eton Field Game. It’s played only there. It’s sort of like Quidditch for real people.
2010 May 8, Brooks Barnes, “Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio