- in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round.
- the holes of a stipulated course still unplayed after the match is finished.
- a run made on a ball not struck by the batsman.
- something subsidiary, secondary, or out of the way.
- by.
- by the way; incidentally: By the bye, how do you spell your name?
- variant of by-: bye-election.
- the situation in which a player or team in an eliminatory contest wins a preliminary round by virtue of having no opponent
- one or more holes of a stipulated course that are left unplayed after the match has been decided
- a run scored off a ball not struck by the batsman: allotted to the team as an extra and not to the individual batsman
- something incidental or secondary
- incidentally; by the way: used as a sentence connector
- goodbye
