a large, heavy, leather-covered ball, tossed from one person to another for physical exercise
medicine ball in American English
noun
a large, solid, heavy, leather-covered ball, thrown from one person to another for exercise
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blip, bootstrap, historicism, neoclassicism, wireless