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rugby

collective term for rugby union and rugby league team sports
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Summary

rugby is a team sport[1]. rugby draws 8,524 Wikipedia views per month (team sport category, ranking #4 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: ball game[3]
  • Named after: Rugby School[4]
  • Subclass of: football[5]
  • Commons category: Rugby football[6]
  • Unicode character: 🏉[7]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rugby football[9]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Rugby[10]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=rugby[11]
  • Main Wikidata property: P9927[12]
  • Maximum number of players: 30[13]
  • Different from: rugby union[14], rugby league[15], rugby sevens[16], association football[17], rugby league nines[18], Football[19], Rugby[20]
  • Uses: rugby ball[21]
  • Practiced by: rugby player[22]
  • Narrower external class: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270102[23], https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5849[24]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[25], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]

Why It Matters

rugby has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] rugby is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000110
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Nhk one news topic id: E0000000110"
  2. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Emperor Cheng of Jin
    P14470 → Concepts/Rugby
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 33Kauy
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main wikidata property → P9927
    Country of origin → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
    Named after → Rugby School
    15min.lt theme id → 7394
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 4157, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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