family or brood of young animals; a group of animals moving together; people joined in some sporting or other competitive event.
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Team
Examples: team of athletes; of baseball; of cattle; of chicken (a brood), c. 1400; of cows; of debaters; of dogs; of dolphins; of ducks (in the air, or a brood of young ducks); of footballers; of geese; of carriage horses; of polo horses; of oxen; of pigs (a litter); of sins; of swans (swans with cygnets); of villains; of wild ducks (flying in a line or string); cricket team.