Ball

"Ball" in Italian

ball

(baseball: a pitch that falls outside the strike zone)

balla

(mildly vulgar slang: nonsense)

ballo

(formal dance)

boiate

(mildly vulgar slang: nonsense)

coglione

(testicle — see also testicle)

gomitolo

(quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape)

palla

(solid or hollow sphere)

palla

(ballistics: a solid nonexplosive missile)

palla

(mathematics: set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance of a given point)

palla

(testicle — see also testicle)

palla

(anatomy: ball of a foot)

palle

(in plural — slang — courage)

pallone

(object, generally spherical, used for playing games)

scopare

(vulgar slang: have sexual intercourse with)

trombare

(vulgar slang: have sexual intercourse with)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.