Scrimmage (sometimes spelled scrummage), which derives from or is cognate to the word "skirmish", can refer to:

• A scrimmage, an informal or practice game between members of the same sports team
• A scrimmage, an exhibition game or informal match between two teams or individual competitors which does not go on record or have title consequences
• The line of scrimmage in American football and related games
• The scrummage (or scrum) formation (or a ruck) in rugby (the "scrimmage" spelling is very rare in this context in modern times)
• A scrimmage game, or "pick-up" game, in amateur football (soccer) — a game in which the players generally do not know each other prior to playing; players often circulate among known fields in their area and ask to join a game or team that they find particularly fitting for their skill level, availability, etc. Cognates in Linguistics are words that have a common origin They may occur within a language such as shirt and skirt as two English words descended from Team sport refers to Sports that are practiced between opposing teams where the players interact directly and simultaneously between them to achieve an objective An exhibition game (also known as an exhibition match or simply exhibition, or a demonstration or demo event is a sporting event In American and Canadian football a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line crossing the football field across its narrower dimension beyond Scrum (an abbreviated form of scrummage, which is now rarely used in the sports of Rugby union and Rugby league, is a way of restarting the game either Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered
• Scrimmage hockey or pick-up hockey, American ice hockey variants
• A scrimmage (shortened "scrim") in online games (mostly First Person Shooters) is a battle or match between two different clans or guilds. A first-person shooter ( FPS) is an action Video game from the Shooter game The initial development of Maze War

See also

• Scrim (disambiguation)

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