Noun

1. A popular ball game played by wizards and witches on flying broomsticks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books.
2. An intercollegiate sport based on the sport in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books.

Quotations

• 2001 Virginia A. Walter: Children & Libraries: Getting It Right (page 107)

  We can disinfect headsets and teach a group of fifth graders how to play library quidditch.

• 2003 Read This Book Or You're Grounded!: A Secret Guide to Surviving Home (page 39) http://books.google.co.uk/books?um=1&lr=&q=%22a+spot+on+the+local+Quidditch+team%22&btnG=Search+Books

  Maybe you wish your parents were smarter or funnier or richer or better looking, but you might as well wish for a spot on the local Quidditch team.

• 2007 Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007 (page 499)

  Whichever team gets Yegor holds the edge. This is like Quidditch in hell.

• 2007 Ethan Todras-Whitehill: In Tikal, Temples in the Mist; The New York Times December 16, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/travel/16Tikal.html?8br

  Turn to the south, and you see the Central Acropolis, a five-story palace where the nobles might have sat to watch plaza ceremonies or the famous Quidditch-like Mayan ball games.