CSS Forums - Commonly Used Terms of Different Sports and Games

[B][COLOR="Blue"]1. Badminton[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Drop:[/B] A light underhand stroke by a player which carries the shuttlecock just over the net by.
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Let:[/B] A minor lapses or infringement of rules committed by a player

[B]Smash:[/B] To strike the shuttlecock overhead with great force.

[B]Deuce:[/B] The game is deuce or nil when both the contestants stand equal.

[B][COLOR="blue"]2. Baseball[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Base:[/B] A point which is at each corner of the baseball field marked by a sack.

[B]Battery:[/B] A section of fielding unit comprising the pitcher and the catcher.

[B]Catcher:[/B] The player who stands behind the plate to give signals about the kind of ball the pitcher should deliver.

[B]Diamond:[/B] The baseball field.

[B]Home:[/B] Place where the batter stands in a baseball game.

[B]Pitcher:[/B] A player of fielding unit who delivers the ball to the batter.

[B][COLOR="blue"]3.Basketball[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Blocking: [/B]The act of impeding, the progress of an opponent.

[B]Dribbling:[/B] The act of throwing, bouncing or rolling the oall.

[B]Held Ball:[/B] The ball is declared held when two players of contesting teams have one or both hands on the ball firmly.

[B]Holding:[/B] It is the bodily obstruction in the freedom of movement of a player by a player of the opposing team.

[B]Jump Ball:[/B] The tossing of the ball in air by the umpire among '.he two opposing players.

[B]Multiple Throws:[/B] A series of free throws attempted by the players of same team.

[COLOR="blue"][B]4.Billiards[/B][/COLOR]

[B]Baulk Line:[/B] A line which is drawn across a Billiards table. It is 73.66 cm from its bottom edge.

[B]Break:[/B] A player's turn in Billiards. J

[B]Cannon:[/B] It is a stroke which causes the striker's ball to hit the ball and opponent's balls.

Cue: A wooden stick used in Billiards to strike the balls.

[B]Hazard:[/B] A stroke which drives one or the other of the balls into or the other of the pockets is called hazard. ^

[B]Jigger:[/B] A long stick with a metal cross fixed diagonally on the | It is used to aid the player to strike the ball.

[B]Jenny:[/B] It is a losing hazard made into one of top pockets, when the object ball is close to the cushion along which the striker's ball must

[B]TraVepolting:[/B] It is pocketing the ball.

[B]Spot Stroke:[/B] It is a series of winning hazards made by pocketing the red ball into one of the top pockets.

[COLOR="blue"][B]5.Boxing[/B][/COLOR]

[B]Auxiliary Points System: [/B]It's a system of judging in boxing.

[B]Break:[/B] It is the order of the umpire to the contestants to stop boxing and withdraw.

[B]Down:[/B] A boxer is considered 'down' when he touches the floor with any part of his body.
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Hook:[/B] It is a boxer's blow with bent elbow.

[B]Lying on:[/B] It is the posture of the boxer during boxing.

[B]Rabit Punch:[/B] A blow on the back of the neck.

[B]Seconds out:[/B] The rounds during boxing contest.
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Weigh in:[/B] It is an act of finally weighing a boxer at the official scales.

[B]Win by Knock out:[/B] A win by 'knock out' is declared when a competitor is incapable of further boxing or declines to begin boxing within 10 seconds.

[COLOR="blue"][B]6.Chess[/B][/COLOR]
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Bishop:[/B] It's a chesspiece which moves diagonally.

[B]Castle:[/B] The only double move in chess whereby the king moves two squares towards the Rook and the Rook is placed on the square the King has just passed over.
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Checkmate:[/B] A move in chess whereby the King cannot avoid being captured.
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Gambit:[/B] It's a mode of opening the chess game by giving a piece for the sake of gaining an advantage in timing.

[B]Knight:[/B] A chesspiece with a horse's head, that moves one square laterally and one diagonally.

[B]Pawn:[/B] A chesspiece of the lowest range and rank. It moves only square straight forward laterally.
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Rook:[/B] It is the chesspiece which moves straight in all directions as tar as desired.

[B]Stalemate:[/B] A deadlock which results in a draw of the chess game.

[B][COLOR="blue"]7.Cricket[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Break:[/B] A ball, after delivery from the bowler, when on touching turns either towards the left or right, is called a break. It can be Break or off-break. for ball passes the bat, missing the wicket, goes far enough I the batsman to run it, it is called a bye.

[B]Chinaman:[/B] It's an off-break ball bowled by a left-handed bowler a right-handed batsman. S

[B]Creases:[/B] The lines which define the positions of the batsman and the bowler are called creases.

[B]Duck:[/B] It's getting out at zero.

[B]Drive:[/B] It denotes the hitting of the ball with great force. If the ball having been hit passes the bowler, it is called the straight drive; if it is driven on the left side of the bowler, it is called cover drive; if driven in the on-side, it is called on-drive.
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Follow on:[/B] The unscheduled batting by the losing team is called follow.

[B]Gully:[/B] It is the position between point and slips.

[B]Hat-trick:[/B] It is the bowler's feat in dismissing three batsmen in consecutive deliveries.
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Hit-wicket:[/B] It is the state in which the bat hits the wicket while playing.

[B]L.B.W.:[/B] It is the state in which the ball hits the legs, in front of the wickets.

[B]Maiden Over[/B]: It is an over in which no run is scored by a batsman.
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No Ball:[/B] The delivery of a ball by the bowler in contravention of the rules governing the bowling action is termed as no ball.

[B]Over:[/B] The bowling turn of a bowler which consists of six deliveries.
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Pitch:[/B] It is the strip of ground lying in between the bowling creases.

[B]Rubber:[/B] Winning of a series of official Test matches by a team.

[B][COLOR="Blue"]8.Golf[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Bogey:[/B] The scoring figure for a given hole or for the whole course of a good player.

[B]Brown Bunker:[/B] A sandy gap which act as a trap in a golf course.

[B]Caddie:[/B] One who attends a golfer and carries the clubs round.

[B]Dormy:[/B] A player who is leading by the same number of holes as there are still to be played.

[B]Fairway: [/B]The smooth turf lying between the tee and putting green.

[B]Fourball foursome:[/B] Golf in which each player plays his own ball.

[B]Foursome:[/B] Golf in which two against two partners plays the same ball-

Green: It is a rough circle of tended grass surrounding a hole from where the player puts the ball into the hole.

[B]Link:[/B] A golf course is called link.

[B]Par:[/B] Scoring figure in golf.

[B]Rough:[/B] The space on either side of the fairway.

[B]Stymie:[/B] A state on the putting green in which an opponent's ball blocks the way to the hole.

[B]Tee:[/B] An elevation from which the ball is first played at each hole-

[B]Threesomes:[/B] Golf in which each player plays for himself against the others.

[COLOR="blue"][B]9. Hockey[/B][/COLOR]

[B]Corner Hit:[/B]It is the hitting of the ball by the players of the opposing teams tart of the game, after a goal and at the resumption of the game at the several Corner: It is a situation when a player of the defending team diverts the side-line near the goal-post. Then the attacking team is the free hit from a spot on the defender's goal-line within three yards f he corner flag-post and near the point where the ball was made to cross L goal-line. It is called a corner hit.

[B]Dribble:[/B] The moving of a player along with the ball on the blade of his off-side: A player is said to be off-side if there are fewer than three opponents between him and the goal unless he is in his own half of the field.
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Roll-in:[/B] If the ball passes over the side-line on being touched by a player, a player of the opposing team is allowed to roll-in the ball by hand from behind the side-line.

[B]Scoop:[/B] It's a sweeping stroke at the ball.

[B]Stick:[/B] The act of a player's raising his stick higher than his shoulders while hitting the ball.

[B]Striking Circle:[/B] The space enclosed by four yards long and three inches wide line drawn parallel to goal-line at a distance of 16 yards from it is called striking circle.

[B][COLOR="blue"]10. Horse Racing[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Jockey:[/B] A man who rides the horse in a horse race.

[B]Punter:[/B] A man who stakes on a horse in a horse race.
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Steeplechase:[/B] A horse race with artificial obstacles.

[B][COLOR="blue"]11. Lawn Tennis[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Back Hand: [/B]A stroke in tennis at the ball with the hand turned backward.

[B]Deuce:[/B] A situation in which both opposing players have won three Points.

[B]Ground Stroke:[/B] The stroke played after one bounce of the ball.

[B]Half volley:[/B] A return stroke played as the ball bounces up.

Obstruction by the net for cancelling a service.

[B]Volley:[/B] a stroke at the ball before it touches the ground causing it t0 return.

[COLOR="blue"][B]12.Polo[/B][/COLOR]

[B]Chukker:[/B] A round of game consisting of eight minutes. The bail 1 A Stick consisting of a lon8 cane- with which Player hits

[B][COLOR="blue"]13.Races[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Dead Heat:[/B] A race in which two or more competitors are

[B]Hurdle Race:[/B] The race run in tracks where a number of hurriw'' placed. less are

[B]Marathon Race:[/B] A cross-country race run on roads coverin distance of 26 miles and 385 yards.

[B]Relay Race:[/B] A team race in which the members of the same tea have to run one after the other.

[B][COLOR="blue"]14.Rugby Footbal[/COLOR][/B]l

A closing in of rival forwards round the ball on the ground shooting

[B]Bag: [/B]The quantity of game brought down in a shoot.

[B][COLOR="blue"]16. Shooting[/COLOR][/B]
[B]Bull's Eye:[/B] The centre of a target.

[B]Muzzle:[/B] The end of a gun barrel from which a projectile is discharged.

[B][COLOR="blue"]17.Volleyball[/COLOR][/B]

[B]Doubling[/B]: If a player touches the ball more than once with any pan of his body before its being touched by any other player in the mean time.

[B]Holding[/B]:Momentary resting of the ball on the hands or arms of a player.

[B]Volley:[/B] A hard return stroke at the ball causing it to return to the other side at once.