Boule fusée
The French word for a hand is 'une main' (fem.).
the body of a rocket or plane is called fuselage from the French "fuselé" i.e. shaped like a "fuseau" (spindle) also sometimes called "fusée" (i.e. rocket in Egnlish)
A ball point pen is 'styllo a bile'
Rocket is "fusée" (fem.) in French.
Rocket (English) -> Fusée (French)
My wife is French, she tells me it is "Balle aux Prisonniers."
le volley-ball (masc.)
The word ballot has been derived from the french word ballotte which means a small ball.
When the ball goes out of the playing area, the French judge says "faute !" (fault!). The word was adopted as a replacement for "out", which was previously used.
In the sentence "the ball shot straight up, into the air like a rocket", "like a rocket" is a simile. A simile is when something is like something else, but not the something else. This is a describing technique.So in this sentence, it means that the ball moved like a rocket would move.
As in 'I have travelled to all parts of the globe', the word is 'terre'. As in 'a ball with the map of the earth on it', the word is 'terrestre'. As in 'an object shaped like a globe' the word is 'sphere'
Rocket Reef doesn't have 8 balls. Candypalooza does.