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ゴロ (ごろ, goro) Japanese meaning: ground ball | Kotomora
じ 字 Furigana
Related words フライ フライ is a fly ball (hit high in the air), while ゴロ is a ground ball (hit along the ground).
ライナー ライナー is a line drive (hit sharply on a line), while ゴロ is a ground ball.
Opposites ゴロ is a ball hit along the ground, while フライ is a ball hit high into the air.
ゴロ bounces or rolls on the ground, whereas ライナー is a sharply hit ball that travels in a straight line through the air.
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きゅう
し
た
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The shortstop handled the grounder and threw to first base.
わる
to ground out (an at-bat ending as a grounder)
His at-bat ended with a ground out to shortstop.
ゴロを 捕と る to field a ground ball
The second baseman quickly fielded the grounder and threw to first.
飛ひ 球きゅう
飛球 is a ball hit high into the air, while ゴロ is a ball hit low that bounces or rolls along the ground.
Word family rumbling; grumbling; growling; purring · rolling; tumbling · all over the place; everywhere; in great numbers · idly; lazily; lounging around · feeling of a foreign object; gritty sensation · thunder
corporate extortionist; corporate shakedown artist
purring
Etymology From English 'grounder' or 'ground ball', abbreviated and adapted into Japanese as ゴロ.