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cap·ture the flag

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  1. capture the flagnoun

    a game normally played by children in which two teams have a flag which is stored at the other team's base. Whichever team returns their flag to their own base first is the winner. This game is often played in paintball.

  2. capture the flagnoun

    A computer game with similar rules, usually in first-person shooter format.

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  1. Capture the flag

    Capture the flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport where two or more teams each have a flag (or other markers) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "tagged" by players in their home territory and, depending on the rules, they may be out of the game, become members of the opposite team, sent back to their own territory, or frozen in place ("in jail") until freed by a member of their own team.

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  1. Capture the flag

    Capture the flag, commonly abbreviated as CTF, is a traditional outdoor game where two teams each have a flag and the object is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "tagged" by players in their home territory; these players are then, depending on the agreed rules, out of the game, members of the opposite team, sent back to their own territory, or "in jail".

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of capture the flag in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of capture the flag in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of capture the flag in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Ferguson:

    Sort of like a grown-up version of capture the flag.

  2. Tulane University:

    The comment was written on a makeshift wall on our private property, normally used for a game of capture the flag, to mock the ideologies of a political candidate.


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