GA

en-noun

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)


center

* Borrowed from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
* (group theory): In the notation Z(G), the letter Z derives from the German Zentrum (“center”).

sentrum

point equidistant from all points on the perimeter of a circle

مَرْكَز

point in the interior of figure with mean coordinates

(sports) A player in the middle of a playing area.

(netball) A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.


goal attack

(netball) A player allowed in the centre third, goal third including the shooting circle.


wing attack

(netball) A player allowed in the centre third and goal third, but not the shooting circle.


goal shooter

(netball) A player allowed in the goal third including the shooting circle.


wing defence

defensive goal third
defensive goal third

(netball) A player allowed in the centre third, defensive goal third, but not the shooting circle.


goal defence

(netball) A player allowed in the centre third and the defensive goal third, including the shooting circle.


centre third

(netball) The central third of a netball court.


shooting circle

shooting circle (plural shooting circles)

(netball) One of two semicircles in the goal thirds, radius 4.9 metres, in which the goal shooter and goal attack can shoot.


goal third

The playing court is divided into thirds, a 'centre third' sandwiched between two 'goal thirds', with a D shaped area in both of the goal thirds and restrictions on which players are allowed in each section.

2012, Sandy Green, Encouraging Early Sports Skills, page 16:

(netball) One of two thirds of a netball court nearest the goal ring.


netball

netball (countable and uncountable, plural netballs)

Some excellent photographs are taken of [...] members of the athletic club, "net-ball," "foot-ball," etc., [...]

1913 January 15, “Personal and Official”, in C. W. Hastings, editor, The Gas Engineer’s Magazine and Gas Industries, volume XXIX, number 441, London: J. G. Hammond & Co., →OCLC, page 13, column 2:

The next events were ones in which selected members of squads participated while the other members watched and cheered. These were net ball, hockey, tennis, and swimming, and followed in the order given.

1928 February, “News Notes. A Successful College Play Day.”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXXIII, number 2 (number 234 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, →OCLC, page 124, column 2:

In addition to the above prominent clubs, there are a number of cricket, tennis, net-ball, and football clubs in the Colony.

1946–1947, “[Windward Islands.] St. Lucia.”, in The West Indies Year Book: […], London: Thomas Skinner & Co., →OCLC, page 389, column 2:

Outcome goals are related directly to end results – e.g. a netball player wants to score more goals / Performance goals are measured against past performance, e.g. a netball player wants to score more goals than in the previous match.

1999, Michael Hill, “Training Methods”, in PE for You: Teacher Resource Pack, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes Publishers, →ISBN, part 3 (Health, Safety and Training), page 83, column 2:

[W]hen I asked each person to nominate the best thing about netball, the overwhelming response was the friendships they had made. Netball friendships have carried people through form slumps, heartbreaking losses and personal tragedies, and it is these friendships that make the wins and the highs so much sweeter.

2005, Liz Ellis, “A Few Words from Liz”, in Netball Heroes, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 1:

Another key skill in netball is the art of dodging; a quick, decisive change of direction to out-manoeuvre or wrong-foot a defender and be free to receive a pass or create a space to move into.

2010, Anna Sheryn, Chris Sheryn, “Movement and Footwork”, in 101 Youth Netball Drills: Age 12 to 16, 2nd edition, London: A & C Black, published 2012, →ISBN, page 35:

It may be that this situation arose because of differential investment or more competent coaching in girls' as opposed to boys' sports in that school, but it is even more likely that it arose because of the composition, coaching, commitment, and so on of all other net ball teams in their league on the one hand, and all other soccer teams in their league on the other.

2012, Roger Gomm, “Qualitative Causal Analysis and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Example of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement”, in Barry Cooper, Judith Glaesser, Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, Challenging the Qualitative–Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, part I (Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research), page 119:

[A]round half the boys were of the view that roles in netball were suitable for both genders while one-third of boys indicated that all roles in netball were for girls only, with the exception of the warm-up coach. Girls were mostly of the view that only the equipment manager was more suitable for boys in netball.

2012, Gary D. Kinchin, “Learning Sport Education through Reflective Inquiry: Four Case Studies”, in Peter Hastie, editor, Sport Education: International Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 171:

(uncountable) A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player.


short pass

(netball) A pass of the ball between teammates too close together to allow an opponent to get between them. There is no particular distance the ball must travel to qualify as a short pass. For instance, if the passing player drops the ball and retreats before her teammate takes possession, it is not a short pass. A short pass is against the rules and results in a free pass to the opposition.


bramkarz

pl-noun

bramkarz m pers (female equivalent bramkarka)

bramkarka (feminine)
bramkarz (nominative singular)
bramkarze (nominative plural)
bramkarza (genitive singular)
bramkarzy (genitive plural)
bramkarzowi (dative singular)
bramkarzom (dative plural)
bramkarza (accusative singular)
bramkarzy (accusative plural)
bramkarzem (instrumental singular)
bramkarzami (instrumental plural)
bramkarzu (locative singular)
bramkarzach (locative plural)
bramkarzu (singular vocative)
bramkarze (plural vocative)

(field hockey, Gaelic football, handball, hurling, ice hockey, lacrosse, netball, soccer) goalkeeper, goaltender

field hockey; Gaelic football; hurling; field hockey; Gaelic football; hurling


goalshooter

Sunshine Girls captain and goalshooter Jhaniele Fowler has expressed her delight after finishing second in the voting for Netballer of the Year.Fowler picked up 27 votes, 10 behind England's Geva Mentor, who was claiming the top spot for the second...

2019 January 16, Robert Bailey, “Stories By Robert Bailey/Gleaner Writer”, in Jamaica Gleaner:

(netball) Alternative form of goal shooter


drop pass

(netball) A high pass for a catcher who will move into free space to receive the ball