(UK, Australia, games) A children's game in which players stand in line with their feet apart, making a tunnel with their legs, down which the lead player propels a ball back to the last player, who runs with it to the front of the line and repeats; played competitively between teams for speed, or by a single team for recreation or exercise.
1994, Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, Chopper 4: For the Term of His Unnatural Life, 2012, Pan Macmillan Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eqBLBu3qpMAC&pg=PT44&dq=%22tunnelball%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei…
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