As nouns,
touch football is a hyponym of
American football game; that is,
touch football is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
American football game:
- American football game: a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays
- touch football: a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled