spavined

en-adj

spavined (comparative more spavined, superlative most spavined)

more spavined (comparative)
most spavined (superlative)

From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).

surf

Coordinate term: foundered

[H]e […] made a present to Andrew of a broken-winded and spavined poney, in order to enable him to pursue his journey.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 115:

A horse-giver, no more than a horse-seller, has a right to palm his spavined article upon us for good ware. An equivalent is expected in either case; and, with my own good will, I would no more be cheated out of my thanks, than out of my money.

1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] XI. That We Must Not Look a Gift-Horse in the Mouth, […].”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 250:

[…] Mr. Thumble, […] had ridden over to Hogglestock on a poor spavined brute belonging to the bishop's stable, and which had once been the bishop's cob.

1867, Anthony Trollope, “The Bishop’s Angel”, in The Last Chronicle of Barset. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 106:

As for the wonderful feats of horsemanship one hears of or sees among the Arabs, they are due to sharp spurs like razors, and to bits strong enough to break an animal's jaw. […] The favourite feat at their fantasias or fêtes of suddenly pulling up their horses short while at a hand-gallop, ruins their legs, and there is in consequence scarcely a horse to be seen whose hind-legs are not spavined.

1868, Mrs. H. Lloyd Evans, “Across the Atlas”, in Last Winter in Algeria, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 100:

The Whig party was supposed to be broken in 1842. It was likened to the man who wished to sell his horse. A by-stander asked if the horse was not spavined? "Spavined! I don't know what that is; but if the horse is any better for being spavined, then he is spavined!"

1876, Samuel S[ullivan] Cox, “Legislative Anecdote—Continued”, in Why We Laugh, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 281:

Into the vale from the north rode a stranger. He was mounted on a mangy, shovel-headed horse so spavined that it should have been unable to support his improbable bulk.

2010, Stephen R[eeder] Donaldson, Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant; 3), New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 54:

(farriery, veterinary medicine) Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).


madonna

Said to be named after the American singer Madonna.

(skateboarding) A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board.


Junior Circuit

(baseball) The American League, the younger of Major League Baseball's two leagues.


Senior Circuit

(baseball) The National League, the older of Major League Baseball's two leagues.


bruiser

(sports) In contact sports, an athlete whose size, strength, and/or aggressiveness make it likely that they will cause athletes on the opposing team to suffer physical punishment.

Bulle

an athlete who likely will cause physical punishment


contact sport

(sports) An athletic contest which involves a significant amount of physical contact between the participating athletes.


race card

race cards (plural)
racecard (alternative)

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(sports) A printed card or pamphlet giving information about a series of horse races and listing the horses to be run; a racebook.

kilpailuohjelma

printed card or pamphlet listing horses to be run in a horse race


mashed potatoes

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During late-season skiing, I have encountered ice in the morning and mashed potatoes in the afternoon.

19841 November, Richard C. Sailiant, “Ask Skiing [letter]”, in Skiing, page 38:

The Eastern ski tribe could confidently expect much ice underfoot while the Western contingent could expect much mashed potatoes around the ankles.

1996 Spring-Summer, Morten Lund, “Skiing Down Those Golden Years with John Jay”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, page 7:

I climbed back through the bottomless mashed potatoes as quickly as I could, relieved to see that his ski was off, with his foot pointing in a normal direction— not the skis’.

2001 October 1, Paul Parker, Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions, 3rd edition, Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 185:

(skiing) Partially melted snow with a pulpy texture, making for slow skiing.


full time

en-noun

full time (usually uncountable, plural full times)


Rover

(sports) Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.

(soccer) someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.


OOP

OOP (countable and uncountable, plural OOPs)

(tennis) Initialism of order of play (“the schedule of contests in a tennis event”).


clubhouse

(golf) A building at a golf course that houses various activities associated with golf.


bench-press

en-verb

bench-press (third-person singular simple present bench-presses, present participle bench-pressing, simple past and past participle bench-pressed)

bench-presses (present singular third-person)
bench-pressing (participle present)
bench-pressed (participle past)
bench-pressed (past)

(weightlifting) To press the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.


bench press

bench presses (plural)
benchpress (alternative)

...Nubret has pushed and pulled maniacally at iron while sustaining a diet that would explode an ordinary metabolism—doing for that renowned chest, for instance, forty sets of twenty benchpresses (pushing 210 pounds off his chest a total of eight hundred times every other day)[…]

1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 18:

(weightlifting) An exercise performed by pressing the weight of a barbell away from one's body while lying on a bench.


bench press

bench press (third-person singular simple present bench presses, present participle bench pressing, simple past and past participle bench pressed)

bench presses (present singular third-person)
bench pressing (participle present)
bench pressed (participle past)
bench pressed (past)
benchpress (alternative)

I went home and bench pressed 30 pounds more than I had ever done before.

1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 21:

And I’m definitely getting stronger. I can now bench press — oh — at least 10 kilos without my arms collapsing underneath me.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:


beatdown

en-noun

beatdown (countable and uncountable, plural beatdowns)

Deverbal from beat down; influenced by earlier throwdown.

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

(professional wrestling, slang) A prescribed situation, usually to advance an angle or establish character, where two or more wrestlers severely beat up another wrestler or performer.


no-trade clause

no-trade clause (plural no-trade clauses)

(US, sports) A clause in a contract by players who do not wish to be traded without their consent.


blackwash

blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)

From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).

(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.


WFC

(soccer) Initialism of women's football club.


black belt

(martial arts) The highest belt colour in various martial arts.

حِزَام أَسْوَد

highest belt color in various martial arts

Raymond is a black belt in karate.

(martial arts) Someone who has attained the black belt in martial arts.

not used in Finnish (instead say jollakulla on musta vyö "someone has a black belt")


time of pitch

(baseball) The moment when the pitcher begins the motion of pitching the ball and, by the rules of the game, has committed himself to throwing the pitch.


alley cat

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(cycling) An informal bicycle race with checkpoints.


shutout

The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.

(sports) A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.

на нула

game that ends with one side not having scored


flyaway

flyaways (plural)
fly-away (alternative)

(gymnastics) A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.


ATA

American Taekwondo Association
w:American Taekwondo Association

(martial arts) Initialism of American Taekwondo Association.

American Tennis Association
w:American Tennis Association

(tennis) Initialism of American Tennis Association.


baserunner

baserunners (plural)
base runner (alternative)

(baseball, softball) A player who is on base and is thus trying to advance to the next base.


service line

(tennis, badminton) The line, in tennis and similar sports, from behind which the ball is initially served and which the feet must not cross when serving.


cushioned

en-adj

cushioned (comparative more cushioned, superlative most cushioned)

more cushioned (comparative)
most cushioned (superlative)

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balking

balking (comparative more balking, superlative most balking)

more balking (comparative)
most balking (superlative)
baulking (alternative)

These large discrepancies must stem from inconsistencies in interpretation rather than the possibility that one crew was constantly drawing more balking pitchers than another.

2013, Peter E. Meltzer, So You Think You Know Baseball?, page 107:

Yes, I'm saying umpire shouldn't even make a balk call unless there is evidence that the balking player was deliberately trying to deceive the opposition.

2016, Norman Keifetz, Belle of the Ball:

A balking pitcher sends everyone home, including the runner on third—and the visiting team has another loss in the record book.

2016, Tom DeMichael, Baseball FAQ: All That's Left to Know About America's Pastime:

(sports) That makes motions which attempt to deceive the opponent.


pig dog

pig dogs (plural)
pigdog (alternative)
pig-dog (alternative)

In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).

The trick here is to do a so-called “pig-dog”. Standing sideways on your board with your back to the wave you will stall by twisting forward (in relation to the tip of your board) shoulder back, and using the arm belonging to it, drag your hand in the water. At the same time your rear hand grabs just behind the outside rail just somewhere near your forward foot. Now look at yourself and you will know why it is called a ‘pig-dog’.

2008, Peter Diel, Eric Menges, Surfing: In Search of the Perfect Wave, page 99:

(surfing) A stance used for surfing tubes on one’s backhand. The surfer crouches low over a bent front knee, back leg extending back, outside hand holding onto the outside rail, and inside arm extended upwards touching the face of the wave as a guide (or digging in to slow down).


seeing eye ball

en-noun

seeing eye ball (plural seeing eye balls)

Jones hit a seeing eye ball between third and short for a single his last time up.

(baseball) A batted ball that gets between several fielders.


shoestring catch

shoestring catch (plural shoestring catches)

Jones races in... and makes a fine shoestring catch in shallow center.

(baseball) A fielding play, typically made by an outfielder, who catches a ball near his shoes, often after a long run.


squeeze play

squeeze plays (plural)
squeeze-play (alternative)

The squeeze play is on! Jones bunts, and Smith scores from third.

(baseball) The tactic of bunting the ball to help a runner at third base score.


fungo bat

The fielding coach used his fungo bat to help Jones work on his first step.

(baseball) A specially designed small-diameter bat used to hit fly balls for fielding practice.


reducer

Koulibaly flattens Steven Bergwijn with a reducer from behind but avoids a booking. Bergwijn gets to his feet and blows his cheeks in frustration. I think that really hurt but he doesn’t want to show it.

21 November 2022, Barry Glendenning, Live Feed: Senegal v Netherlands, The Guardian

(soccer) The reduction of the contribution to a football game of a more talented opponent by intimidation using a brutal tackle.


single-elimination tournament

single-elimination tournament (plural single-elimination tournaments)

(sports) A tournament where the loser of a game or match is eliminated from further competition.


bolero

Edward's attention was at first rivetted on two dancers engaged in their graceful national dance, the bolero. What a blessing to a people is a climate that encourages out-of-door amusement!

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 335:

(dance) A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.


curler

The captain sent a curler into the top corner of the net.

Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.

2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:

Liverpool were energised at the start of the second half, with Curtis Jones shaping a curler just past the far post.

2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian:

(soccer) A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.

Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.

2021 August 25, Jilli Cluff, “Kelly Slater’s Artificial Wave Will Crown ‘The Ultimate Surfer’ on Hulu”, in GearJunkie:

There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.

2023 March 18, Sam Anderson, “Weekend Warm-Up: Liquid Lines, Entrancing Tunes, Mesmerizing Moments in ‘MALIA’”, in Explorersweb:

(surfing) A wave which breaks with a barrel


pressure point

For this strike, if your thumb is tucked correctly, you should hit the pressure point where their arm meets their shoulder.

(martial arts) A specific small area of the body targeted, due to a cluster of nerves being close to the skin, usually not protected by bone.


ever-present

(British, sports) An athlete who is present in every contest.


prizefighting

prizefighting (usually uncountable, plural prizefightings)

See prizefight. Originally Prize Playing, with play referring to sparring, a practice fight. By surface analysis, prize + fighting.

OF all the people gathered on Ninth Avenue Wednesday night to watch Marc Jacobs's spring 2003 runway show, I'm fairly sure I was the only one thinking about prizefighting.

2002 September 22, Ron Fried, “VIEW; Separated at Birth: Fashion and Prize Fights”, in The New York Times:

(sports) Professional boxing, in which two fighters compete for a prize.


utility man

(baseball) Alternative form of utilityman


freeball

Just about every play in the game, service reception, general play and freeball, involves the use of the front A and/or back A, although they are not always set.

1981, National Volleyball Coaches Association Technical Journal:

Areas of emphasis can be: team blocking, serve reception, attack combinations, freeball execution, and spiker coverage.

1985, Bob Bertucci Tina Kogut Bertucci, Ralph Hippolyte, Championship Volleyball Drills: Combination and complex training, page 99:

By serving tough, using effective downball placement, not giving easy freeballs and simply attacking smartly and in a tough manner.

1998, The American Volleyball Coaches Association, Coaching Volleyball, page 34:

(volleyball) A ball that has been hit from below the top of the net.


freeball

en-verb

freeball (third-person singular simple present freeballs, present participle freeballing, simple past and past participle freeballed)

freeballs (present singular third-person)
freeballing (participle present)
freeballed (participle past)
freeballed (past)

But we can't just freeball it to them because they will kill it right back at you.

2017 September 6, Josh Seguin, “Hodsdon nets 500th career kill as STA sweeps Hilltoppers”, in Seacoastonline:


tubeless

tubeless tyres


Air Force

Air Force Falcons
w:en:Air Force Falcons

United States Air Force Academy
w:en:United States Air Force Academy

(US, sports) Ellipsis of Air Force Falcons. sports teams representing the United States Air Force Academy


back slap

back slaps (plural)
back-slap (alternative)

(martial arts) A controlled landing, slapping to the mat with one's back.

(sports) An encouraging pat on one's back.


contra dance

[T]he Duchess, and the dandies, and the member's wife and all the rest of their tribulations, were happily hidden from the view by the towering bouquets of the gold plateau vases at the head of the room. [...] A contra-dance after supper was felt to be a national duty; but behind those fatal vases a plot had already been concocted by the recondites for rewarding their previous self-denial, not by a quadrille, but a galoppe.

1836, [Catherine Gore], chapter VIII, in Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination. […] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 134:

(dance) A type of folk dance style in which couples dance in two facing lines of indefinite length.


Proteas

(cricket) The South African cricket team


'roid rage

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(bodybuilding) Alternative spelling of roid rage


fifty-fifty

fifty-fifties (plural)
50 50 (alternative)
fifty fifty (alternative)
fifty/fifty (alternative)

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(sports) A challenge between two opposing players, where both have an equal chance of taking possession.

fifty-fifty grind
fifty-fifty grind#English

(skateboarding) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty grind; a rail or edge grind, using both trucks to grind along, longitudinally aligned.

fifty-fifty grind

fifty-fifty slide
fifty-fifty slide#English

(snowboarding) Ellipsis of fifty-fifty slide; a rail slide where the snowboard is longitudinally aligned with the direction of the slide, down the centerline.


dewdrop

dewdrops (plural)
dew-drop (alternative)
dew drop (alternative)

From Middle English deu drop, dew droppe, dewe droppe, equivalent to dew + drop. Compare Dutch dauwdruppel (“dewdrop”), German Tautropfen (“dewdrop”), Danish dugdråbe (“dewdrop”), Swedish daggdroppe (“dewdrop”), Faroese døggdropi (“dewdrop”).

(baseball, slang, dated, 1800s) A slow pitch.


road warrior

road warriors (plural)
roadwarrior (alternative)

(cycling) A recreational cyclist who rides a racing bicycle and wears lycra.


Olympian

From Late Latin Olympianus (“Olympic”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, or forming agent nouns). Olympianus is derived from Latin Olympia (“town in Elis, Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held”) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Olympia is from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpĭ́ā, “Olympia”), from Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos, “of or pertaining to Mount Olympus; living on Mount Olympus, Olympian; (specifically) Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólŭmpos, “Mount Olympus”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
As regards noun sense 1 (“inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States”), the city was named after the Olympic Mountains which are visible to the northwest, which in turn were named after Mount Olympus in Greece.

der

For he [Alexander the Great] was not (as his father Philip [II of Macedon]) deſirous of all kind of glorie: who like a Rhetoritian had a delight to vtter his eloquence, and ſtamped in his coines, the victories he had wonne at the Olympian games, by the ſwift running of his horſe and coaches. For when he was asked one day (becauſe he was ſwift of foot) whether he would aſſay to run for victorie at the Olympian games: I could be content, ſaid he, ſo I might run with kings.

1612, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Alexander the Great”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 675:

The Olympian Games were celebrated at the Full Moon after the Somer Solſtice, ſo the Olympian Years begin at that Seaſon.

1705, Tho[mas] Hearne, “The Gro[u]nds of Chronology”, in Ductor Historicus: Or, A Short System of Universal History, and an Introduction to the Study of It. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] Tim[othy] Childe, […], →OCLC, book I (Chronology), page 22:

During his Exile he [Cimon Coalemos] obtain'd the Olympian Prize in the Quadrijugal Chariot-race, and transferr'd the Honour to Miltiades [the Elder] his Mother's Son.

1720, Herodotus, “Book VI. Erato.”, in Isaac Littlebury, transl., The History of Herodotus: Translated from the Greek, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 126:

Q. Were Women allow'd to be preſent at thoſe Games? / A. At firſt they were ſo ſtrict in this reſpect, that any Women who croſs'd the River Alpheus while theſe Games were celebrating, were condemn'd to be tumbled down a Rock. But afterwards, Women were even ſuffer'd to perform in the Olympian Games, and they ſometimes won the Prizes.

1743, [John Lockman], “Of the Customs and Manners of the Grecians”, in The History of Greece. By Way of Question and Answer. […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M. Cooper […], →OCLC, section II (Of Publick Festivals; viz. of the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games), page 172:

(historical) Of or relating to the ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia; Olympic.

Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.

олимпийски

of or relating to the ancient or modern Olympic Games


Olympian

олимпиец

sportsperson competing in the ancient or modern Olympic Games

олимпи́йка

rare; generally used to mean a sports sweatshirt with a zip

And I haue ſeene thee pauſe, and take thy breath, / When that a ring of Greekes haue ſhruped thee in, / Like an Olympian wraſtling.

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

(historical) A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.

I will forever carry the pride and privilege of representing this amazing country on the grandest global stage. There is so much that comes with that, with being an Olympian. But now, because of Covid-19, some athletes will never get that honour. […] There will be people who were getting the timing right for 2020 who won't be in 2021. From in one year does not guarantee form in the next. That is absolutely heart-breaking. There will be athletes in the community that should have become Olympians. Because of Covid-19, they will never get that opportunity.

2020 August 28, Steve Solomon, “Covid has stripped Olympic glory from a generation of athletes – that’s heartbreaking”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-28:

[…] Olympians’ mental health has never been a key concern for the sports governing bodies that oversee them.

2021 July 22, Alice Park, “How Olympians are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22:

A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.


bocce

en-noun

bocce (countable and uncountable, plural bocces)

bocces (plural)
boccie (alternative)
bocci (alternative)

(sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court

The object is throw or roll the bocces as close as possible to the pallino.

2012, Victoria Rowell, Paul Tukey, Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games, →ISBN:

The side with their bocces closest to the pallino earns points.

2013 February 6, Brian Messenger, “Bocce balls are rolling”, in Eagle-Tribune:

When he first started we had to buy a smaller set of bocces because his hands were small.

2013 April 30, Paul Haigh, “Bocce star to represent Australia”, in Liverpool City Champion:

(sports, countable) One of the eight balls that the player throws in a game of bocce.


draisienne

Borrowed from French draisienne. Named after Karl Drais.

I looked to the right, where velocipedes with huge art-nouveau wheels and draisiennes with their flat, scooterlike bars evoked gentlemen in stovepipe hats, knights of progress pedaling through the Bois de Boulogne.

1989, William Weaver, transl., Foucault's Pendulum, Random House, translation of Il pendolo di Foucault by Umberto Eco, page 10:

(historical, cycling) dandy-horse, hobby horse


tighthead

(rugby) prop who plays on the right-hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is tightly bound between those of the opposing hooker and loosehead


front row

(British, rugby) The row of players who participate in a scrum with direct contact with the opposing scrum.


outside centre

(rugby) A player who is positioned between the inside centre and the right wing


inside centre

(rugby) A player who is positioned between the fly-half and the outside centre


number eight

But Ireland dug out a gutsy response and applied pressure which resulted in number eight Heaslip diving over in the corner to revive home hopes.

2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:

(rugby) A player in the scrum, who controls the movement of the scrum, and can pick up the ball exiting the scrum; eighthman.

vazač

rugby player who controls the movement of the scrum


flanker

Audio (US)

From flank + -er. The verb is from the noun (sense 3).

(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.

rváček

rugby player in the back row of the scrum

(American football) A wide receiver who lines up behind the line of scrimmage.


break one's duck

en-verb

break one's duck (third-person singular simple present breaks one's duck, present participle breaking one's duck, simple past broke one's duck, past participle broken one's duck)

breaks one's duck (present singular third-person)
breaking one's duck (participle present)
broke one's duck (past)
broken one's duck (participle past)

From cricket, where duck means a score of zero.

(cricket) To score one's first run in an innings.


game sheet

(sports) A document used in sports in order to keep track of goals, penalties, assists, etc.


MR

en-noun

MR (countable and uncountable, plural MRs)

(sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.


granny shot

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granny style

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(basketball) A method of shooting baskets, especially foul shots, in which the ball is thrown underhand, with both arms, from below or anterior to the pelvis.


brake shoe

brake shoes (plural)
brakeshoe (alternative)

(cycling) A brake lining unit in a coaster brake on a bike.


rub of the green

rub of the green (plural rubs of the green)

(golf) Any accidental deflection of the ball by an outside agency (spectator, caddie etc); the ball is played without penalty from where it comes to rest

(sports, by extension) an outside agent that affects the movement of the ball.


triple jumper

triple jumpers (plural)
triple-jumper (alternative)

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the triple jump.


high jumper

high jumpers (plural)
high-jumper (alternative)

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the high jump.

走高跳の選手

はしりたかとびのせんしゅ


pole vaulter

pole vaulters (plural)
pole-vaulter (alternative)

Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.

1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times:

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the pole vault.


burn up

en-verb

burn up (third-person singular simple present burns up, present participle burning up, simple past and past participle burned up or burnt up)

burns up (present singular third-person)
burning up (participle present)
burned up (participle past)
burned up (past)
burnt up (participle past)
burnt up (past)

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From burn + up. Compare Middle English upbrennynge, upbrennende (“burning up”, present participle), German Low German upbrannen (“to burn up”).

cog

(intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finishing strongly.


ring up

en-verb

ring up (third-person singular simple present rings up, present participle ringing up, simple past rang up, past participle rung up)

rings up (present singular third-person)
ringing up (participle present)
rang up (past)
rung up (participle past)

(baseball) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.


green belt

green belts (plural)
greenbelt (alternative)

From green (adjective) + belt (“band worn around the waist; thing resembling a belt, a strip or stripe”).

compound

When the club is fully developed and has a reasonable spectrum of ranks in it, the training schedule should be stable to encourage the habit of training. […] The advanced (above green belt) class meets for an additional hour, three times per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).

1995, Elmar T. Schmeisser, “The University Dojo: Teaching a Traditional Martial Art in a Nontraditional Setting”, in Carol A. Wiley, editor, Martial Arts Teachers on Teaching (Io Series; 53), Berkeley, Calif.: Frog, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 129:

He estimates it was around 1964 when the Japanese stylists of karate brought in the green belt to bridge the gap between white and brown.

2011, Yvonne Cruz, “Cruz Karate Studios”, in Grandmaster Freddie G. Cruz: Biography of a True Legend in the Martial Arts World, [S.l.]: Bookemon, →ISBN, page 217:

Any green belt martial artist could've done that. Because they were just ordinary goons, hired guns.

2014 October, Sharit Sinha, “The Revelation”, in Blood Rush, 3rd edition, [S.l.]: Sharit Sinha, published December 2017, →ISBN, page 36:

A belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art, especially judo or karate; also, the level of skill represented by this belt.

vihreä vyö

belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art; the level of skill represented by this belt

After a month I distinctly remember one of the ‘green belts’ giving me a thorough but gentle working over in one of the sparring sessions, I was impressed not just with his ability to defeat me, but with the ease with which he did it.

2012, Noel C., “What Karate Means to Me”, in Tom Hill, editor, Essays for Black Belt, Luton, Bedfordshire: Andrews UK, →ISBN, page 22:

Develop a career progression ladder for black belts and green belts.

[2012, T. M. Kubiak, “Mentoring Black Belts and Green Belts”, in The Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt Handbook, Milwaukee, Wis.: ASQ Quality Press, →ISBN, part V (Mentoring Responsibilities), page 306:

A person who has earned the rank of green belt in a martial art.


groomer

(skiing, slang) A piste serviced by snow groomers.


catch a crab

en-verb

catch a crab (third-person singular simple present catches a crab, present participle catching a crab, simple past and past participle caught a crab)

catches a crab (present singular third-person)
catching a crab (participle present)
caught a crab (participle past)
caught a crab (past)

I blast off the first few strokes with all the anger and frustration I feel towards Rachel. It works against me. I catch a crab and totally lose it. The boat swings sideways and we have to easy oar or risk slamming into the bank.

2014, Pip Harry, Head of the River, page 82:

(rowing) To strike the blade of the oar against the water when moving the oar back between power strokes.


shirtfront

(cricket) A pitch that is easy to bat on.


nightcap

nightcaps (plural)
night cap (alternative)
night-cap (alternative)

(US, sports, baseball) The final match of a sporting contest, especially the second game of a baseball doubleheader.


unplayable

en-adj

unplayable (comparative more unplayable, superlative most unplayable)

more unplayable (comparative)
most unplayable (superlative)

That cannot be played; that is impossible or unreasonable (too difficult, etc.) to play.

(sports, of a ball or shuttlecock) Impossible to play or to defend against.


d.

Coordinate term: d-man

(sports, informal) Abbreviation of defence/defense.


step-up

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(exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.


scudetto

The race to the scudetto is on in Italy at the halfway point of the Serie A season.

2009 January 21, Jack Bell, “Juventus Putting Pressure on Inter”, in New York Times:

(soccer) The Italian Serie A Championship title.


below par

(golf) (of a score) Less than par for the hole or course (which in golf, means better than par).


finisher

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A thundering right to the head bent him back over the ropes, and then, just as I was setting myself for the finisher, I felt somebody jerking my pants leg […]

1934 June, Robert E. Howard, “General Ironfist”, in Jack Dempsey's Fight Magazine:

(boxing) The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.

After suffering a broken leg in a challenge from Stoke's Ryan Shawcross in 2010, the goal allowed Ramsey to put a positive slant on this fixture and show how he is evolving into a composed finisher.

2013 September 22, Alistair Magowan, “Arsenal 3-1 Stoke City”, in BBC:

As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.

2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN:

(sports) A player who scores points for their team.

[Eddie] Jones has used his bench as finishers and repeated last year’s ploy that helped overcome France when he brought on Ben Te’o for [George] Ford. [Dylan] Hartley and [Mike] Brown had already gone off, along with [Nathan] Hughes, whose replacement Sam Underhill was making an impact at the breakdown when he was sent to the sin-bin for a no-arms tackle on Barclay.

2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2018-04-22:

(rugby) A substitute player who plays at the end of the game.


attacking zone

(ice hockey) From one team's point of view, the area between the blue line of the other team's half of the rink and the end board behind the other team's goal.


He did a 180 off the diving board.

(sports) An instance of spinning 180 degrees, so that one is facing in the opposite direction.


defending zone

(ice hockey) The zone between the blue line and the end board in a team's own end of the rink. The same area is the attacking zone for the opposing team.


end board

end boards (plural)
endboard (alternative)

(ice hockey) A section of the board between the corners in each end of the rink,


He did a 720 off the halfpipe.

(sports) The act of spinning 720 degrees in the air, doing two complete turns.


offensive zone

(ice hockey) The ice between the opposing team's blue line and their end board.


defensive zone

(ice hockey) The ice between a team's own blue line and its end board.


forkball

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From fork + ball, since it is held between the first two fingers.

(baseball) A baseball pitch, much like the sinker.


quali

en-noun

quali (usually uncountable, plural qualis or qualies)

qualis (plural)
qualies (plural)
qualie (alternative)
qualy (alternative)
qual (alternative)

(motor racing, slang) Clipping of qualifying.


fo shizzle my nizzle

From fo shizzle + my + nizzle, rhyming variation of nigga, with the rhyming particle -izzle.

(slang, hip-hop) A more emphatic and familiar form of fo shizzle; “For sure, my friend”, used to stress the following sentence.


faceoff

(ice hockey) The method used to begin play in ice hockey.


faceoff spot

(ice hockey) One of the five spots in an ice hockey rink where play may begin.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather

(equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather


follow-through

follow-through (countable and uncountable, plural follow-throughs)

follow-throughs (plural)
followthrough (alternative)

(sports) The continued action of a stroke, or of the delivery of a ball, after it has been hit or released.


follow-up

follow-ups (plural)
followup (alternative)

It could have been much worse for City before the break, but goalkeeper Joe Hart saved Jamie Mackie's long-range shot and Helguson's headed follow-up - although the latter was offside - before Bothroyd hit the post with another header.

2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.

opfølgning

sports: shot on goal directly following another


suicide squeeze

suicide squeeze (plural suicide squeezes)

(baseball) A play by the team at-bat where with a runner at third base, the batter puts down a sacrifice bunt with the aim of allowing the runner to score. In contrast to a safety squeeze, the runner sets off from third as soon as the pitch is made, allowing him or her to start running much earlier than on a safety squeeze.


take sign

(baseball) A sign from the third base coach, or whoever the batter receives signals from, telling the batter that no matter what he will not swing at the next pitch.


stolen base

The catcher caught the wild pitch and threw the ball to second, just in time, preventing another stolen base.

(baseball, softball) A play where a runner on any base runs to the next base, usually while the pitcher pitches to a batter. Such a runner is liable to be put out if tagged with the ball while not in contact with any base.

when a runner is unsuccessful and is thrown out

when the runner is not credited with a stolen base because the team playing the field did not try to stop the steal


power play

power plays (plural)
powerplay (alternative)
power-play (alternative)

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(ice hockey) A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.

(sports) A similar situation in other ball games, such as lacrosse, indoor soccer, rugby, and cricket.

(curling) A play used to move the stones to the side of the sheet.


penalty kill

(ice hockey) An effort by a penalized team to nullify a penalty and opponent's power play, a length of time during the game when a penalized team has one or more players in the penalty box.


cherry-bomb

(sports, US, slang) In the four square ball game, the act of spiking the ball or slamming it down with a great force to make it hard for a person to retrieve it to stay in the game.

a cherry-bomb with even more impressive force


nurdle

en-verb

nurdle (third-person singular simple present nurdles, present participle nurdling, simple past and past participle nurdled)

nurdles (present singular third-person)
nurdling (participle present)
nurdled (participle past)
nurdled (past)

(cricket) To score runs by gently nudging the ball into vacant areas of the field.


round robin

round robins (plural)
round-robin (alternative)

/ˌɹaʊnd ˈɹɒbɪn/

From round (adjective) + robin. Sense 1 (“senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around”) is connected with the word round, while sense 2 (“senses relating to people, animals, or plants”) is connected with some English regional senses of the word robin where it is used in the names of various fish and plants which are not related to the red-breasted bird. However, apart from the alliteration, it is not clear why the two words came to be linked together in compounds. It is possible that the term was first used to refer to sense 1.13.1 (“consecrated host”) which appears to be the earliest attested sense, and then extended to other senses either having the sense of round or robin.
Alternatively, it has been suggested that the term is a corruption of French ruban rond (literally “round ribbon”), referring to the practice in 17th-century France of signing on ribbons which were then attached to petitions of grievances in a circular manner: see sense 1.1. However, this etymology does not explain the senses of the term unrelated to a signed document.

der

At Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Japan defended well and attacked with ease, facing only moderate resistance in a 25-9, 25-19, 25-15 victory in the eight-team round robin, with two berths in next year's Paris Olympics up for grabs.

2023 September 17, “Japan’s women victorious in Olympic volleyball qualifying opener”, in The Japan Times, Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-30:

Sixteen men and sixteen women will compete for their respective gold medals in the inaugural edition of Olympic breaking. Each of the competitions are a one-day tournament that begins with round-robin competitions before quarterfinal and semifinal stages that lead into the medal events.

2024 June 24, Jack McKessy, “Breakdancing is making its Olympics debut at Paris 2024. Here’s when you can watch”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-31:

(also attributive) Senses relating to something with a round shape, or which goes around.

(originally US, sports, often attributive) The part of a tournament in which every player or team competes against each of the others in turn.


spray

en-verb

spray (third-person singular simple present sprays, present participle spraying, simple past and past participle sprayed)

sprays (present singular third-person)
spraying (participle present)
sprayed (participle past)
sprayed (past)

From Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”).
Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth, burst”), Norwegian dialectal spra, spræ (“to splash, splatter, spout, burst forth”), Dutch sproeien (“to spray, sprinkle”), German sprühen (“to spray, sparkle”).

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Kevin McLeod sprayed the ball across from the left flank where a raging Ainsworth met it on the volley from 25 yards out, crashing the ball into the roof of the net.

2012 February 1, Ash Rose, The QPR Miscellany, The History Press, →ISBN:

Yunus sprayed it to the wing where Ali was in some space.

2013 August 11, Jamal Orme, The Victory Boys, Kube Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 13:

(transitive, soccer) To pass (a ball), usually laterally across the field and often a long distance.

(climbing, slang, derogatory) To give unwanted advice.


true up

en-verb

true up (third-person singular simple present trues up, present participle truing up, simple past and past participle trued up)

trues up (present singular third-person)
truing up (participle present)
trued up (participle past)
trued up (past)

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(cycling) To make a wheel level, balanced or even by adjusting the spokes; to true a wheel; ideally, to make it perfectly circular in relation to the hub with no left or right bulges nor 'flat spots'.


Eskimo roll

(surfing) The act of rolling under one's surfboard to dive through a wave, when heading out from shore.


selfbow

selfbows (plural)
self-bow (alternative)
self bow (alternative)

From self (“having its own or a single nature or character throughout without addition or change, unmixed; (archery) of a bow: made from a single piece of wood”, adjective) + bow.

compound

With reſpect to a bow being made round, we muſt recollect, that [Roger] Aſcham ſpeaks of a ſelf'''-bow; which, it ſeems, was made round as well as the back as in the belly: but back'd-bows have almoſt always a flat back, to prevent their caſting.

1801, T[homas] Roberts, “Of the Bow”, in The English Bowman, or Tracts on Archery; […], London: […] [F]or the author, by C. Roworth, […]; [s]old by Mr. [Thomas] Edgerton, […]; [a]lso by Mr. [Thomas] Waring, […], →OCLC, section III (Of Proving the Bow), page 141:

Many Archers use a piece of waxed cloth, which is of great utility, as it not only gives the Bow a polish, but is a preventative against damps penetrating; this precaution however, is not so much required for self Bows, as backed ones. Self Bows are made of one piece of wood only, and that is generally of yew, but the long known difficulty of procuring good English yew, has compelled Bow makers of late years, to resort to various other woods, all containing great spring, but little pliability; the deficiency of the latter is amply supplied by the addition of a slip of ash, or some other tough wood glued to them; the toughness of the one combined to the elasticity of the other, both acting in conjunction, make capital Bows, and these it is that are called back'd Bows.

1820, Thomas Waring, “Attitude in Shooting”, in A Treatise on Archery; or, The Art of Shooting with the Long Bow. […], 2nd edition, London: […] A. Seale [for Thomas Waring], →OCLC, page 21:

[A] backed bow does not exceed a self bow, except that it is thought by some to be pleasanter and easier to draw, especially in the last inch, and of quicker cast.

1831, T[homas] B[urgeland] Johnson, “BOW”, in The Sportsman’s Cyclopedia; […], London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, […], →OCLC, page 78:

I once made a beautiful self-bow from a large branch of yew, which was amputated, after two valuable coach-horses had been poisoned by feeding on its leaves.

1840, George Agar Hansard, “Section VIII. Of Yew Trees, Yew Bows, &c. &c.”, in The Book of Archery, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 350:

Modern bows are of two kinds, viz. self bows and backed bows. The self bow is composed of only one kind of wood; but the backed bow is composed of two kinds of wood, both the full length of the bow, carefully joined together.

1845, [Jane] Loudon, “Letter XVIII. Archery: Targets; Self Bows and Backed Bows; …”, in The Lady’s Country Companion; or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, book V (Country Amusements), page 366:

The self-bow is the real old Engish weapon; the one with which the many mighty deeds that rendered this country renowned in times gone by were performed; […] Of the woods for self-bows, Yew beyond all question carries off the palm; other woods have been, and still are, in use, such as lance, Cocus, Washaba, Rose, Snake, and some others; but they may be summarily dismissed with the remark, that self-bows made of these woods are all, without exception radically bad, being heavy in hand, apt to jar, comparatively dull in cast, and very liable to chrysal and break, and that no archer should use them so long as a self-yew or a good backed-bow is within his reach.

1856, Horace A[lfred] Ford, “Of the Bow”, in Archery: Its Theory and Practice, London: J. Buchanan, […]; Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: H[enry] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 14:

Bows were of several types. Most common was a selfbow (a bow made of a single piece of wood with no laminating materials) of springy wood tapering toward both ends and sometimes narrowed at the grip.

1995, Harvey Markowitz, “Bows, Arrows, and Quivers”, in American Indians (A Magill Book), volumes 1 (A–Hay), Pasadena, Calif.; Hackensack, N.J.: Salem Press, →ISBN; republished in Carole A. Barrett, Harvey J. Markowitz, editors, American Indian Culture (Magill’s Choice), volumes 1 (Acorns–Headdresses), Pasadena, Calif.; Hackensack, N.J.: Salem Press, 2004, →ISBN, page 148:

If the design of the weapon is moderate enough to be successful as an all wood selfbow then the addition of sinew and horn will probably result in a net loss of arrow performance.

2001, Hari Heath, “Wood under Stress”, in David Wescott, editor, Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills […], Salt Lake City, Ut.: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, section 4 (Projectiles—Bows and Arrows), page 106, column 1:

The recurved bow design originated in antiquity when the longbow, or self[-]bow, made entirely from wood, was reinforced with animal sinew to produce adequate energy in a shorter bow suitable for mounted archers.

2005, Tom Airhart, “Personal Gear”, in Elk Hunting Guide: Skills, Gear, and Insight, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 259:

(archery) A bow made from a single piece of wood (often referred to as a bow stave).


game point

(tennis) A situation where if one of the two players wins the next point, he or she will win the game (but not the set).


love game

(tennis) A game in which one of the two players scored no points.

joc en blanc

a game in which one player scored no points


wedeln

(skiing) A series of high-speed turns with the skis parallel.


wedeln

en-verb

wedeln (third-person singular simple present wedelns, present participle wedelning, simple past and past participle wedelned)

wedelns (present singular third-person)
wedelning (participle present)
wedelned (participle past)
wedelned (past)
wedel (alternative)

(skiing, intransitive) To perform a series of high-speed turns with the skis parallel.


self-officiated

Ultimate Frisbee is a self-officiated noncontact field game, using seven players per side and requiring continuous motion, much like soccer or basketball.

(sports) officiated by players, on the "honor system", rather than by an outside observer such as a referee.


slogger

(cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.


SV

en-noun

SV (countable and uncountable, plural SVs)

SVs (plural)
S.V. (alternative)
S. V. (alternative)
S.V. (alternative)
S. V. (alternative)
S/V (alternative)
Sv (alternative)
Sv. (alternative)
SV. (alternative)

(gymnastics) Initialism of start value. (before score deductions)


puddle

From Middle English podel, diminutive of Old English pudd (“ditch”), from Proto-Germanic *puddaz (compare Low German Pudel (“puddle”), Middle High German podel (“quagmire, mudhole”), Hunsrik Puttel, dialectal German Pfudel (“puddle”), German pudeln (“to splash about”)), ultimately imitative.

onomatopoeic

imitative

I had only to see the 'puddle' to know that your paddle made it.

1969, Charles Cuthbert Brown, Malay Sayings, page 88:

As the blade exits the water the puddle is very tight and dark. It is also very quiet.

2007, Rowing News, volume 14, number 5, page 36:

(rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.


OM

Olympique de Marseille
w:Olympique de Marseille

(soccer) Initialism of Olympique de Marseille.


heartbreaker

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Kansas appeared in its first bowl following the 1947 season, losing a heartbreaker to Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. KU landed in the Bluebonnet Bowl following the 1961 season, and beat up a good Rice squad, 33-7.

2004, Mark Stallard, Tales from the Jayhawks Gridiron, Sports Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 164:

Wyoming lost a heartbreaker 7–6. Utah's touchdown was scored on an intercepted pass, Wyoming missed an extra point and, most importantly, an official did not get downfield in time to see a punt hit a Utah player not once, but twice[…]

2006, Tom Benjey, Keep A-goin': The Life of Lone Star Dietz, Tuxedo Press, →ISBN, page 246:

In 1988 and again in 1989 the team went back to Bristol, Connecticut, for the nationals, coming in at third place one year and in second place another, losing the championship to Wisconsin-Oshkosh in a heartbreaker in eleven innings.

2009, Dieter Dubberke, Three Times Blessed, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 94:

breaks someone's heart
break someone's heart#English

(agent noun) Someone or something that breaks someone's heart, as:

(sports) A match which ends in defeat for a promising player or team.


factory team

(motor racing) A team that is wholly or substantially owned and run by (or on behalf of) a car manufacturer, either by an in house organization or an associated company.


domestically

en-adv

domestically (comparative more domestically, superlative most domestically)

more domestically (comparative)
most domestically (superlative)

Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds.

2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:

(sports) at home, playing in one's home ground


auto racing

(motor racing) Any of various sports in which automobiles (motor cars) are raced, either around a track, on roads or across country


rigadoon

From French rigaudon. Ultimate origin unknown; perhaps related to Hebrew ריקודים or Arabic رقص.

(dance) A quickstep dance for two people.


flye

[…]then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench, five sets of dumbbell flyes and two sets of twenty cable flyes—all designed to bulk, shape, striate and clarify the pectoralis muscles of the chest[…]

1974, Charles Gaines, George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22:

(weightlifting) An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.


powerlifting

For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.

1988, Frederick C. Hatfield, “Powersource: Ties that bind”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 21:

(sports) A strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. The maximum weight lifted in each event is totalled for a final score.


deadlift

2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
I never did a squat or a deadlift—the exercises I now know are best for building a bigger, stronger, more athletic-looking body—because I had access to leg-extension, leg-curl, and leg-press machines.

(weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.


TKO

/ˈtiː ˈkeɪ ˈəʊ/

technical knockout
technical knockout#English

(martial arts) Initialism of technical knockout.


playbook

(US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension other sports or disciplines).


outpoint

en-verb

outpoint (third-person singular simple present outpoints, present participle outpointing, simple past and past participle outpointed)

outpoints (present singular third-person)
outpointing (participle present)
outpointed (participle past)
outpointed (past)

It was clear that the Queen, if she indeed proved to be the target, would be outpointed for grooming and hauteur.

2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 225:

Speaking from the Philippines, where he easily outpointed Argentine Angel Hugo Ramirez in front of a sellout crowd of almost 10,000 on Saturday night, Katsidis said he was ready to fight in front of Australian fans after an absence of two years.

2009 February 2, Bernie Pramberg, “Michael Katsidis chases return bout with Cuban great”, in Herald Sun:

(sports) To score more points than (especially, in boxing, to achieve victory by scoring more points that one's opponent).


Krav Maga

/kɹɑːv məˈɡɑː/

From Hebrew קרב מגע (k'ráv-magá), literally “contact combat”.

krav maga (alternative)
Krav maga (alternative)

(martial arts) A hand-to-hand combat system developed by the Israel Defense Forces that consists of a wide combination of martial arts techniques along with realistic fight training.


air ball

(basketball) A thrown ball that misses the basket, and completely fails to touch the net or supporting hoop.


pro-celebrity

(sports) In which professionals and celebrities participate together


drop-in

The pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground is drop-in, and the ground is also used for Australian rules football.

(cricket) Of the pitch: prepared away from the ground or venue, and dropped into place only when a match is to be played.


drop-in

Drop-ins can and often do happen accidentally. Sometimes you're so focussed on your take-off that you just don't see the other rider.

2004, Bill Mattos, Kayak Surfing, page 37:

(surfing) The act of dropping in; that is, taking a wave that another surfer is already riding.

(cricket) A pitch that is prepared away from the ground or venue, and dropped into place only when a match is to be played.


repechage

en-noun

repechage (countable and uncountable, plural repechages)

repechages (plural)
repêchage (alternative)

/ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/

/ˈɹɛp.ɪ.ʃɑːʒ/

/ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/

From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).

(sports, countable) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

復活賽 /复活赛

heat for competitors who have lost in a previous round

(sports, uncountable) The use of this form of competition.


twirling

(gymnastics, uncountable) Ellipsis of baton twirling.


snookered

en-adj

snookered (comparative more snookered, superlative most snookered)

more snookered (comparative)
most snookered (superlative)

(snooker, not comparable) In a situation where the cue ball position is such that one cannot directly hit the required object ball.


aerials

From aerial (“move involving one or both feet leaving the ground”) + -s.

af

The small world of aerials is trying to provide comfort. Athletes from Switzerland, including the former Olympic freestyle skier Andreas Isoz, have been raising funds and planned to go this weekend to Mukachevo, or as close as they could get near the Ukrainian border, to hand off supplies.

2022 March 4, John Branch, “He Won an Olympic Silver for Ukraine. Now He’s Hiding in a Kyiv Garage.”, in The New York Times:


sabermetrician

You could count on one hand the number of “sabermetricians” inside of baseball, and none of them appears to have had much effect.

2003, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 164:

(US, baseball) A baseball statistician; one who studies sabermetrics.


divisional

(US, sports) A playoff determining the winning team from a particular division.


headhunt

en-verb

headhunt (third-person singular simple present headhunts, present participle headhunting, simple past and past participle headhunted)

headhunts (present singular third-person)
headhunting (participle present)
headhunted (participle past)
headhunted (past)
head-hunt (alternative)

There's a brawl on the field because the pitcher has been headhunting throughout the game.

(baseball, intransitive) To pitch at a batter's head.

(ice hockey, transitive) To use one's hockey stick to strike an opponent's head.


carabine

carabine (third-person singular simple present carabines, present participle carabining, simple past and past participle carabined)

carabines (present singular third-person)
carabining (participle present)
carabined (participle past)
carabined (past)

From French carabine. Doublet of carbine.

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(transitive, nautical or climbing) To attach via carabiner.


tap-dancer

(dance) Someone who performs a tap dance.


tapper

(baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.

(sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.


wiffleball

en-noun

wiffleball (countable and uncountable, plural wiffleballs)

wiffleballs (plural)
wiffle-ball (alternative)
wiffle ball (alternative)
whiffleball (alternative)
whiffle-ball (alternative)
whiffle ball (alternative)

From (onomatopoeia) whiff (“to strike, to strikeout”) + ball.
Not derived from whiffle, though both derive from same onomatopoeic sources, namely a sound of wind.

(US, sports, uncountable) A game similar to baseball, played with a lightweight bat and ball and suitable for children to play in confined areas.


pit lane

(motor racing) A lane adjacent (usually on the inner curve) to a racetrack where the competing teams' garages are situated.


tambour

tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)

Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.

One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably.

2019, Simon Horobin, Bagels, Bumf, and Buses, page 150:

(sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.


hardball

hardball (countable and uncountable, plural hardballs)

(ball games) In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.


rogue wave

Then one giant crest spills green water over the bow and stops our 100-ton vehicle as though it had ploughed into a gargantuan hay bale. . . . The rogue wave our experimental 78-foot craft hit must have been well over 10 feet high.

1974 June, Ben Kocivar, “75-knot ocean-going surface-effect ship”, in Popular Science, volume 204, number 6, retrieved 2015-10-28, page 91:

One of her owners, Mark Litchfield, was quoted by United Press International as saying a “rogue wave” might have knocked the ship over.

1984 June 4, Robert D. McFadden, “18 Missing, 1 Dead and 9 Rescued as Tall Ship is Lost near Bermuda”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-10-28:

Scientists still don't know exactly how rogue waves occur, nor do they know how to predict them.

2010 March 4, Bryan Walsh, “Cruise-Ship Disaster: How Do ‘Rogue Waves’ Work?”, in Time, retrieved 2015-10-28:

(nautical, surfing) An unexpected, dangerously large wave.


point break

Latigo Beach. Nice point break. Long workable rides.

(surfing slang) The location where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline.


reef break

(surfing, slang) A wave that breaks over a projection from the seabed formed from coral reef or rock shelf.


jack up

en-verb

jack up (third-person singular simple present jacks up, present participle jacking up, simple past and past participle jacked up)

jacks up (present singular third-person)
jacking up (participle present)
jacked up (participle past)
jacked up (past)

* Sense of “hoist with a jack” is from 1885; then, “increase prices, etc.” (1904, American English); both ultimately from noun jack (“mechanical device used to raise heavy objects”)
* “Screw up, mess up” sense derived from, or influenced by fuck up, as a bowdlerization; also possibly influenced by jacked up (“high, intoxicated”)
* First dialectal idiomatic meaning: “abandon, give up” (1873), possibly a corruption of chuck up, as chuck up the sponge (“give up, concede, give token of submission”)

(basketball, colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.


world record

(sports) The world's best score or time for a certain event.


Hillsborough

From hills and borough. The village in New Brunswick was probably named in honour of British politician Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire (1718 - 1793). The civil parish is named after the village.

Before kick-off, a section of Chelsea's support sadly let themselves and their club down by noisily interrupting the silence held in memory of the Hillsborough disaster and for Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, who collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during a Serie B game on Saturday.

2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:

(soccer) the home stadium of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club

(soccer, by extension) Sheffield Wednesday Football Club itself.


on the ropes

The champ had his opponent on the ropes at the end of the third round and knocked him out in the fourth.

(boxing, professional wrestling) Leaning against the ropes of the boxing ring, as when exhausted and nearing defeat or collapse.

köysissä

leaning against the ropes of the boxing ring, as when exhausted and nearing defeat or collapse


hall of fame

halls of fame (plural)
HoF (alternative)

(usually capitalized, often sports) A structure housing memorials to famous or illustrious individuals (especially ones of importance to some field), often containing a collection of memorabilia relating to them.

শহরতের দালান

hall which honors people of great importance to some field


penetrative

en-adj

penetrative (comparative more penetrative, superlative most penetrative)

more penetrative (comparative)
most penetrative (superlative)

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From Middle English penetratyve, penetratif, from Medieval Latin penetrativus, from (the participle stem of) Latin penetrāre (“to penetrate”).

(sports) That can penetrate opposition defences.


(sports) The act of spinning 540 degrees in the air, making 1½ turns.


break off

en-verb

break off (third-person singular simple present breaks off, present participle breaking off, simple past broke off, past participle broken off)

breaks off (present singular third-person)
breaking off (participle present)
broke off (past)
broken off (participle past)

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From Middle English breke of (“break off, terminate”), a dissimilated form of earlier Middle English ofbreken. By surface analysis, break + off.

inh

Ted's opening line, when Steve broke off for the deciding frame, was, 'Last night we put our clocks back one hour. These two stars turned theirs back to April.'

2017, John Virgo, Say Goodnight, JV - My Autobiography, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive, billiards, snooker) To play the first shot in a frame of snooker, billiards or pool.


run around

en-verb

run around (third-person singular simple present runs around, present participle running around, simple past ran around, past participle run around)

runs around (present singular third-person)
running around (participle present)
ran around (past)
run around (participle past)

He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was.

2006, Greg Moran, Tennis Beyond Big Shots, →ISBN, page 71:

(tennis, of a forehand or a backhand) To change one's position on the court to hit a forehand rather than a backhand, or vice versa.


trey

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English treye, from Anglo-Norman trei or treis, from Old French treis (“three”). Doublet of three and tres.

(US, Canada, basketball, informal, obsolete) A three-pointer.


traditionalist

traditional climbing
traditional climbing

(climbing) A traditional climbing climber.


clear up

clear up (third-person singular simple present clears up, present participle clearing up, simple past and past participle cleared up)

clears up (present singular third-person)
clearing up (participle present)
cleared up (participle past)
cleared up (past)

(snooker, billiards, intransitive) To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.


truck driver

truck drivers (plural)
truckdriver (alternative)
truck-driver (alternative)

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(skiing) A freestyle skiing aerialist move involving grabbing the front end of one's skis on a jump in a pike position, similar to holding the large steering wheel of a big truck.

(cycling) A freestyle BMX move involving turning the bicycle handlebar 360-degrees, akin to spinning the steering wheel of a big truck to turn.


trimmer

(cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.


pullback

pullbacks (plural)
pull-back (alternative)

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.


trundler

The high delivery of modern bowlers would horrify the famous trundlers of the good old days, when to deliver the ball from above the level of the shoulder was as heinous an offence as throwing is to-day […]

1899, W. G. Grace, “W.G.”: Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections, London: J. Bowden, Introduction, page xv:

Sometimes he would bowl to one of his children, and although on the field (a small strip of garden) there were only two cricketers, he would turn it into an England v. Australia match. The one batsman would stand for eleven men, and the one trundler would play the part of the regular and change bowlers […]

1914, William Bardsley Brash, chapter 10, in Love and Life, London: C.H. Kelly, page 146:

1978, Michael Anthony, The Making of Port-of-Spain, Port-of-Spain: Ministry of Sport, Culture, and Youth Affairs, Volume 2, Chapter 21, p. 123,
It was the first time the crowd was seeing this lithe, gangling trundler, sending down orthodox spin from the left arm.

(cricket) A bowler (player throwing the ball).

The next bowler was a trundler, and Luton, evidently inspired by Bognor’s cover drive, hit him to all corners of the ground.

1979, Tim Heald, chapter 5, in Just Desserts, New York: Scribner, page 104:

But he wouldn’t be a great cricketer; he was just a trundler, really, accurate enough, but no flair.

2010, Kate De Goldi, chapter 8, in The 10 p.m. Question, Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, page 217:

(cricket) A bowler who bowls slowly; a mediocre bowler.


track-and-field

He is a track-and-field athlete, he's a sprinter.

(sports) referring to track and field athletics.


give someone the heave-ho

give someone the heave-ho (third-person singular simple present gives someone the heave-ho, present participle giving someone the heave-ho, simple past gave someone the heave-ho, past participle given someone the heave-ho)

gives someone the heave-ho (present singular third-person)
giving someone the heave-ho (participle present)
gave someone the heave-ho (past)
given someone the heave-ho (participle past)
give somebody the old heave-ho (alternative)

(baseball) To eject a player or manager from the game.


pavane

pavanes (plural)
pavan (alternative)
paven (alternative)
pavian (alternative)
pavin (alternative)
pavonne (alternative)

→ Welsh: pafán

From French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava).

Why then be merry; be merry, or I’le be
Out of humour, and then who shall dance the Pavan
With Ossorio?

1664, Thomas Porter, The Carnival, London: Henry Herringman, act II, scene 1, page 25:

[…] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 33:

From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax.

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, pages 218–219:

(music, dance) A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.


preseason

(sports) The period before the start of a sporting season, during which players undergo training and venues are prepared


soccer player

soccer players (plural)
soccer-player (alternative)

(soccer, US, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) One who plays soccer, especially professional soccer.


basketball player

en-noun

basketball player (plural basketball players)

basketball players (plural)
basketball-player (alternative)

(basketball) A person who plays basketball, especially professionally.

バスケットボール選手

バスケットボールせんしゅ


home team

(idiomatic, sports) The team that is playing in the usual area that they play in, as opposed to the visitor team.

thuisploeg

team playing in its home territory or field


triple crown

(sports) An award representing victory in three events, especially in horse-racing.


hurdling

hurdling (countable and uncountable, plural hurdlings)

(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.


pinch-hit

en-verb

pinch-hit (third-person singular simple present pinch-hits, present participle pinch-hitting, simple past and past participle pinch-hit)

pinch-hits (present singular third-person)
pinch-hitting (participle present)
pinch-hit (participle past)
pinch-hit (past)

Jones pinch-hit for Smith in the sixth.

“Some people think that pitchers aren't complete athletes and some of them maybe weren't, but others were, so I think you'd remember Red Ruffing who used to pinch‐hit all the time, sometimes for outfielders, even though he was as complete a pitcher there was. […]” If he is wrong, however, and designated hitting does turn out to be a good thing, pinch‐hitting as now understood will become a thing of the past.

1973 January 4, Wells Twombly, “Now the 10th man”, in The New York Times:

(intransitive, baseball) To bat in place of another player


pinsetter

pinsetters (plural)
pin-setter (alternative)
pin setter (alternative)

“I was working as a pinsetter in a bowling alley down in Tampa.”

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 92:

(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.

They have twelve lanes of candlepin bowling with cranky automatic pinsetters that usually take the last three days of the week off […]

(bowling) The machine that clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.


sack race

There's something for the whole family with events including cow pat throwing, sack races, three-legged races and more.

2021 December 21, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 27, column 3:

(games, motor racing) A race in which competitors stand in sacks or similar items and try to be the first to jump to the finish line.


trick shot

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(billiards) An unconventional shot of the balls to show off or pot an otherwise impossible ball.


hams

Powerful hip extension is essential if you hope to squat heavier, jump higher or run faster, making it essential to train the hams using focused hip-extension exercises (like the romanian deadlift).

2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:

(exercise, slang) The hamstring muscles; the biceps femoris


play-by-play

(US, sports) Describing a sports commentary in which a commentator describes every action in some detail as it occurs, often assisted by a second commentator who provides background information and other comments.


play-by-play

So I collected a cross section of play-by-plays, definitely not as many as I'd like to collect but enough to feel pretty comfortable with what I was seeing.

2004, Dean Oliver, Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis:

(US, sports) A detailed description or analysis of sporting events as they occur in succession, one play at a time.


ball-by-ball

(cricket) Describing a commentary (especially on the radio) in which a commentator describes every ball bowled, every shot hit, and the positions of the fielders; normally assisted by a summarizer who describes the game as a whole and provides other comments and a scorer who keeps a record of all statistics.


shortboard

From short + board. Such a board is short in comparison to a longboard and the boards which preceded the shortboard historically.

(surfing) A type of surfboard which is about 6 to 7 feet long (boards are always measured in feet, even in metric countries), and with a tapered pointy nose.


funboard

(surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.


mini-mal

(surfing) A type of surfboard which is similar in shape to a mal (i.e. a malibu, or longboard) but shorter, being perhaps 7 to 8 feet where a mal is about 9 feet (surfboards are always measured in feet, even in metric countries).


counterpunch

counterpunch (third-person singular simple present counterpunches, present participle counterpunching, simple past and past participle counterpunched)

counterpunches (present singular third-person)
counterpunching (participle present)
counterpunched (participle past)
counterpunched (past)
counter-punch (alternative)

(boxing) To deliver a punch designed to exploit an opponent's momentary defensive weakness caused by a punch thrown by the opponent.


putout

(baseball) A play in which a batter is retired.

Jones recorded 15 putouts in the first half of the season.

(baseball) The statistic of the number of outs a defensive player directly caused.


diced

en-adj

diced (comparative more diced, superlative most diced)

more diced (comparative)
most diced (superlative)

(bodybuilding, slang) Of marked definition.


lofted

(golf, of a golf club) Having (a specified amount of) loft.


stumping

Wicket-keepers are measured by the number of catches and stumpings they make.

2013, Julian Knight, Cricket For Dummies:

(cricket) The act of somebody being stumped.


sledging

en-noun

sledging (countable and uncountable, plural sledgings)

(cricket) The practice of a fielder making insulting or comical references to an opposition batsman with the aim of distracting him


moon shot

moon shots (plural)
moonshot (alternative)

[Mickey] Mantle pounds out a moon shot in this night contest when he slams the [base]ball against the left-center facing of the second deck at Comiskey Park.

1998, David S. Nuttall, “Coming of Age”, in Mickey Mantle’s Greatest Hits, New York, N.Y.: S.P.I. Books, →ISBN, page 66:

I launch a moon shot. The [basket]ball sails up toward the hoop in slow motion. After what feels like an hour, the ball arcs downward and swishes in. The guys turn to me and applaud.

2003, Alan Eisenstock, “Injured Reserve”, in Ten on Sunday: The Secret Life of Men, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, page 220:

(sports) An act of throwing or hitting a ball with a high trajectory.


double-dip

en-verb

double-dip (third-person singular simple present double-dips, present participle double-dipping, simple past and past participle double-dipped)

double-dips (present singular third-person)
double-dipping (participle present)
double-dipped (participle past)
double-dipped (past)
double dip (alternative)

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SPC Ladies double-dipped the Sudbury Storm in the NSA Canadian World Series.

(softball) To defeat a team twice in the finals.


RHB

(cricket) Initialism of right-handed batsman.


LHB

(cricket) Initialism of left-handed batsman.


spear tackle

(rugby) An offensive tackle in which the tackled player is lifted up and driven into the ground head-first. This is very dangerous and can result in serious injury to the neck and spine and often a red or yellow card.


carded

en-adj

carded (comparative more carded, superlative most carded)

more carded (comparative)
most carded (superlative)

A carded player could not go down and play for the Atom "B" team unless he is first released from the Atom “A” team.

1995, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy, page 170:

In essence, a carded athlete should see training as a full- time occupation, in spite of the fact that carding money, by itself, is not enough to sustain an individual with no family, friends or sponsors to rely on.

2008, P. David Howe, The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement:

Each NSO creates and implements the criteria on how carded athletes are selected and it is the responsibility of the NSO to select them.

2013, Popi Sotiriadou, Veerle de Bosscher, Managing High Performance Sport, page 78:

(sports) Signed onto a current season players card.


miscue

(sports) In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue.


cue sport

(sports) A game played with a cue and balls, such as billiards.


bring down

en-verb

bring down (third-person singular simple present brings down, present participle bringing down, simple past and past participle brought down)

brings down (present singular third-person)
bringing down (participle present)
brought down (participle past)
brought down (past)

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Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.

2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:

(sports, transitive) To cause an opponent to fall after a tackle.


purring

en-noun

purring (countable and uncountable, plural purrings)


clean sheet

Birmingham had their defence to thank for a clean sheet, although they were lucky to escape when Manuel da Costa shot off-target and then headed wide.

2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:

Nigeria had scored only three goals in three games, all against Australia, but they had also kept two clean sheets and their defensive organisation continued to frustrate England immensely.

2023 August 7, Suzanne Wrack, “England beat Nigeria on penalties to reach Women’s World Cup quarter-finals”, in The Guardian:

(soccer, not in the US and Canada) A game played without having conceded a goal.

شِباكٌ نَظِيفَةٌ

(soccer) game played without having conceded a goal


javelin throw

(athletics) An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear-like object made of metal, fiberglass and, in some cases, kyshashrek.

spiesgooi

athletic event where a javelin is thrown


discus throw

(athletics) An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy lenticular disc called discus.


relay race

(sports) A sports contest where the members of a team take turns e.g. swimming, running or skiing parts of a circuit.


ragdoll

en-verb

ragdoll (third-person singular simple present ragdolls, present participle ragdolling, simple past and past participle ragdolled)

ragdolls (present singular third-person)
ragdolling (participle present)
ragdolled (participle past)
ragdolled (past)
rag-doll (alternative)

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(intransitive, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, video games) To be flung about, such that a person or character has an appearance like that of a rag doll that is flung about.


boundary rider

boundary riders (plural)
boundary-rider (alternative)

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australia, sports, Australian rules football) A commentator on Australian rules football games who reports from the boundary of the field of play, and interviews players on the interchange bench as well as coaching and medical staff.


four-foot

(curling) Alternative spelling of 4-foot


rasping

en-adj

rasping (comparative more rasping, superlative most rasping)

more rasping (comparative)
most rasping (superlative)

When the opponent has led off with a fine rasping drive, the noble, but somewhat treacherous, spirit of emulation rises in the breast of the rival, and he is tempted to 'press' –ever so little, but just a little too much in order to outdo his antagonist's effort.

1890, Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Golf, page 249:

Myhill gets fingertips onto it and helps the rasping drive onto the bar and over or a corner.

2009, Ian Waterson, Live Through the Dream, page 7777:

Celta then levelled following a crisp move between Daniel Wass, Guidetti and Orellana, the Chilean sending a rasping drive high beyond Casilla.

2016 August 28, “Toni Kroos missile helps Real Madrid down impressive Celta”, in Stuff:

Zeki Amdouni had a rasping long-range drive parried away by David Raya

2023 November 11, Matthew Howarth, “Arsenal 3-1 Burnley”, in BBC Sport:

(sports) Pushing forward with great force.


panic rev

(sports) In motocross, the revving of the airborne engine, if the front wheel of the bike is too low after executing a jump. The purpose is to accelerate the rotation of the rear tire, thereby raising the front end of the bike.


slab

From Middle English sclabbe, slabbe, of uncertain origin; possibly from *slap, related to dialectal slappel (“portion, piece”), along with slape (“slippery”), sleip (“smooth piece of timber”), borrowed through Old Norse sleipr from Proto-Germanic *slaipaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leyb-. See also Norwegian sleip (“slippery”) and Icelandic sleipur.

After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.

2009, Bruce Boal, The Surfing Yearbook, SurfersVillage, page 31:

In August 2000 he successfully rode a slab of unfathomable power at Teahupo′o.

2011, Douglas Booth, Surfing: The Ultimate Guide, page 95:


penalty try

(rugby) An awarding of five points (equivalent to scoring a try) to a team whose opponents have prevented, by misconduct, a try being scored.


blood replacement

en-noun

blood replacement (plural blood replacements)

(rugby) A temporary substitution for a visibly bleeding player who must leave the field of play for first-aid treatment.


catch out

en-verb

catch out (third-person singular simple present catches out, present participle catching out, simple past and past participle caught out)

catches out (present singular third-person)
catching out (participle present)
caught out (participle past)
caught out (past)

(transitive, cricket) To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground.


right-winger

(sports) A winger who plays on the right.


ASC

ascent time
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(underwater diving) Short for ascent time.


yoked

Holonyms: see Thesaurus:strapping

By the end of his fourth year of weight-lifting, Lee was yoked.

“Your validation feels so good. Tell me more.” “I can end this with praise. Uh, J-Jack, you're a-a fine commander. You're in phenomenal shape.” “Yes, fine commander. Yes, so yoked.”

2021 August 12, Mike McMahan, “Strange Energies” (19:50 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell):

(bodybuilding) Having large and well-defined muscles particularly at the neck and the trapezii (forming thus the “yoke“).


(cricket) A fast form of cricket in which each side bats for just twenty overs.


alpinist

(skiing) Pertaining to alpine skiing or downhill skiing.


alpinist

(skiing, sometimes capitalized) A downhill skier who practises the sport on high mountains.


Socceroos

Australia national association football team

It was the day of the Socceroos′ first World Cup clash: the game against Japan.

2007, Raewyn Caisley, Hot Shot, unnumbered page:

Australia′s success on the international stage took a major leap forward when the Socceroos qualified for their first appearance at the FIFA World Cup in 1974, held in Germany.

2010, Dave Arthur, Greg Downes, “Chapter 19: Australia”, in Simon Chadwick, Sean Hamil, editors, Managing Football, page 342:

association football
association football

(soccer) The men's national soccer (association football) representative team of Australia.


line-out

line-outs (plural)
lineout (alternative)

(rugby) a set piece where a player throws the ball into play, and both teams can contest for possession.

(baseball) an out produced by catching a line drive


buzkashi

From Classical Persian بزکشی (buz-kašī); compound of بز (buz, “goat”) + کش (kaš, “dragging, drawing”) + ـی (-ī).

(games, sports) A team sport originating in Central Asia, where the players, all on horseback, try to place an animal carcass into a goal.


unpassable

(tennis) Not able to be passed; not capable of being beaten at the net by a passing shot.


mudra

The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind.

1996 [1994], Andrew Bromfield, Crystal World, translation of original by Victor Pelevin:

For the next few minutes, the audience had sat mesmerized as the sisters performed, fingertips joining and parting in mudras, eyebrows quivering.

2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 109:

(dance, art) Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.


snowrut

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(snowboarding) A long line that forms an indentation in the snow.


loosey-goosey

en-adj

loosey-goosey (comparative more loosey-goosey or loosier-goosier or loosey-goosier, superlative most loosey-goosey or loosiest-goosiest or loosey-goosiest)

more loosey-goosey (comparative)
loosier-goosier (comparative)
loosey-goosier (comparative)
most loosey-goosey (superlative)
loosiest-goosiest (superlative)
loosey-goosiest (superlative)
loosey goosey (alternative)
loosy-goosy (alternative)

They said that he couldn't hit International League pitching because he was too loosey-goosey at the plate.

1946 July 8, “By Jim Coleman”, in The Globe and Mail:

“All these other guys are scared to death,” the pinch-hitter kept telling himself as he walked towards the plate, “I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey.”

1955, Trent Frayne, “Why Big-League Goalies CRACK Up”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 2022-04-09:

(sports, originally baseball, Canada, US) relaxed


Gunner

From gunner, in reference to the weapons held in an arsenal.

The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.

2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:

(soccer) someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.


ducks on the pond

* (coded warning): Originally used in shearing sheds; later extended to other normally all-male environments, such as some pubs.

There are two ducks on the pond for the cleanup hitter.

(baseball) Members of a batting order who are on base; baserunners.


TMS

(cricket) Initialism of Test Match Special.


toe touch

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(snowboarding, skateboarding) Any of a plethora of different aerial tricks where one touches the top of one's feet.


trad

en-noun

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

Traditional climbing
traditional climbing


sand trap

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(golf) A sand-filled hollow, on a golf course, used as a hazard; a bunker.


two for two

He's two for two tonight.

(idiomatic, baseball) In baseball, meeting two out of two attempts at-bat. Specifically, it means the batter has reached base safely two out of two times.


drop back

en-verb

drop back (third-person singular simple present drops back, present participle dropping back, simple past and past participle dropped back)

drops back (present singular third-person)
dropping back (participle present)
dropped back (participle past)
dropped back (past)

The Tiger quarterback is dropping back to pass.

(American football) Of a quarterback or other player in the backfield, to take a number of steps back from the line of scrimmage immediately after the snap or hike of the ball, to avoid defenders.


drop back

With his ankle injury his drop back is not pretty.

(American football) The act by a player in the backfield of dropping back from the line of scrimmage after the hike of the ball.


drop-back

With his ankle injury his drop-back is not pretty.


ARCA

Automobile Racing Club of America
w:Automobile Racing Club of America

(US, sports) Acronym of Automobile Racing Club of America, a stock car auto racing sanctioning body in the United States, founded in 1952.


racing car

racing cars (plural)
racing-car (alternative)

[A] grey racing car drew up with a grinding of brakes and a sputter of gravel in front of the main entrance of Belpher Castle.

1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in A Damsel in Distress:

Like some fine-tuned racing car, it kicks up a lot of its own dust.

1987 September 14, Jay Cocks, “Music: The Badder They Come”, in Time:

(UK, automotive, motor racing) A race car.


touch down

touch down (third-person singular simple present touches down, present participle touching down, simple past and past participle touched down)

touches down (present singular third-person)
touching down (participle present)
touched down (participle past)
touched down (past)
touchdown (alternative)
touch-down (alternative)

(American football) To score a touchdown

Centre Shontayne Hape scored two tries for England before the break, while Georgia number eight Dimitri Basilaia touched down to make it 17-10 at half-time.

2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:


inside baseball

baseballin hienoudet

technical matters usually only of interest to or noticed by baseball insiders

There always has been a tendency to overlook the catcher, possibly because so much of him is covered up during the game, but more because the greatest part of his work is inside baseball and of the kind which the general public can neither see nor appreciate.

1914, Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington, The Book of Athletics, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard:

Here, the game is marked by the "little things" that have come to be defined as "inside baseball".

1993, Michael A. Katovich, “Humor in Baseball: Functions and Dysfunctions”, in The Journal of American Culture, volume 16, number 2, pages 7–16:

(US, idiomatic, baseball) Technical matters concerning baseball generally not apparent or of interest to spectators.


PED

en-noun

PED (countable and uncountable, plural PEDs)

The rationale for use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) varies among athletes.

2018, Mark Roettger, Modern Sports Dentistry, Springer, →ISBN, page 189:

(sports) Initialism of performance-enhancing drug.


high tackle

The game was never going to be won by how good a team attacks, though, but with defence. When captain Kolisi was sin-binned for a high tackle, the Boks could've easily capitulated.

2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:

(rugby) A dangerous form of tackling in which a player tackles above the shoulders.


blood bin

(rugby) A temporary substitution for a visibly-bleeding player who must leave the field of play for first aid treatment.


knothole

But he was worried that a coach of a knothole team might not like the idea and not let me switch-hit. So, my dad went to the coach.

1976, Pete Rose with Bob Hertzel, quoting Pete Rose, Pete Rose's winning baseball, H. Regnery Co., page 10:

I was a Cub Scout. I went to church with my family, and taught Sunday school when I was in my teens. I played knothole baseball and rooted for the Reds.

1993 March, Michael Graham, quoting Rob Portman, “Mr. Portman Goes to Washington”, in Cincinnati, page 32:

Poetically enough, the New Richmond knothole field is situated right next to the low, open land between the old and new highway.

1998 September, Lonnie Wheeler, “The river runs through it”, in Cincinnati, page 151:

In 1955 members organized their first baseball league; softball and knothole baseball were added later.

2009, Robin Caraway, “Bellevue Vets”, in Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool, editors, The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, via Issuu, →ISBN, page 79:

(Cincinnati, sports, attributive) Youth league baseball.


behind in the count

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(baseball, of a pitcher) Having fewer strikes than balls against a batter in an at-bat.

(baseball, of a batter) Having more strikes than balls against a pitcher in an at-bat.


ahead in the count

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(baseball, of a pitcher) Having more strikes than balls against a batter in an at-bat.

(baseball, of a batter) Having fewer strikes than balls against a pitcher in an at-bat.


pick off

en-verb

pick off (third-person singular simple present picks off, present participle picking off, simple past and past participle picked off)

picks off (present singular third-person)
picking off (participle present)
picked off (participle past)
picked off (past)

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The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe.

(baseball) To throw out a runner by tagging them whilst they are not in contact with any of the three bases or home plate.


pick off

The final out of the game was determined by a pick off.

(baseball) An instance of throwing out a batter leading off base.