ball boy

See also: ballboy

English

A ball boy and ball girl during the tennis at the 2012 Olympics

Alternative forms

• ballboy

Noun

ball boy (plural ball boys)

1. (sports) A person, usually male, responsible for retrieving balls from the area of play, and returning them to the players.

Related terms

• ball girl
• ball kid

Translations

A male person responsible for retrieving balls

• Catalan: aplegapilotes (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 球童 (zh) (qiútóng)

• Danish: bolddreng c
• Dutch: ballenjongen (nl) m
• Finnish: pallopoika
• French: ramasseur de balles (fr) m
• German: Balljunge (de) m
• Hungarian: labdaszedő (hu), labdaszedő fiú
• Italian: raccattapalle
• Japanese: ボールパーソン (bōrupāson)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ballgutt m

  Nynorsk: ballgut m

• Polish: chłopiec do piłek (pl) m
• Portuguese: boleiro (pt) m, gandula (pt)
• Russian: болбо́й (ru) m (bolbój)
• Spanish: recogepelotas (es) m or f, recogebolas m or f
• Swedish: bollkalle (sv) c, bollpojke (sv) c (especially in tennis)