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# polo

«polo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a game played on horseback in which two teams use…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (polo, uncountable — the sport; a polo, polos — a polo shirt or neck)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Polo is a game played on horseback in which two teams use long-handled wooden mallets to hit a small ball into the other team's goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#m1)

2) Water polo is a team game played in a swimming pool, where swimmers throw a ball into a goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#m2)

3) A polo, or polo shirt, is a short-sleeved cotton shirt with a collar and a few buttons at the neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#m3)

4) A polo neck is a jumper with a high, folded collar round the neck (in the USA a turtleneck). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Polo is one of the oldest team sports, from ancient Persia; it is linked with rich people because horses are expensive. Many schools have a polo shirt as part of the uniform. Water polo is an Olympic sport. Marco Polo was a famous Italian traveller to China (a name). Phrases: «polo shirt», «polo neck», «water polo», «polo match».

### examples

- The polo players galloped after the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x1)
- Our school uniform is a blue polo shirt and grey trousers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x2)
- I joined the water polo club at the swimming pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x3)
- Grandma knitted me a woolly polo neck jumper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x4)
- Polo was first played in ancient Persia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x5)
- Marco Polo travelled all the way to China. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x6)
- A polo team has four riders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x7)
- He told him that he wished him to play at polo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/#x8)

### note

The sport is uncountable: «play polo», not «a polo». The shirt is countable: «two polos». Capital P for Marco Polo and for the brand of mint sweets (Polo mints, UK).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «polo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/polo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.