- Similar Lingo in Sports
- * Sports:
- * Team:
- * Goalkeeper:
- * Goal:
- * Yard Lines:
- * Field:
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- Water Polo
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- Soccer aka "Association
Football"
- Soccer (aka Association Football).
Sources: Nearly all data on this page is from Wikipedia.
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- * Team sport played between
two teams of 11 players.
* A goal on two short ends of a rectangular grass field.
* Manoeuvering a ball into opposing goal, using ANY part of their
body except hands/arms.
* Goalkeepers stay in the goal, keep the ball out of the goal;
are the only people who may touch the ball with hands/arms.
* Team scoring most goals wins, or a draw is declared, meaning
extra time or a Penalty shootout.
* Ball must stay in the field when playing.
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- * Penalty Shootout aka Penalties:
After extra time has been used after a draw. Generally used in
"knockout games", as opposed to "League games".
Different than Penalty Kick. Decides which team wins and or progresses
in tournament. Kick from the penalty mark. Players are in center
circle, while kicker and defending goalkeeper keep outside of
circle. Kicker team goalkeeper stands on 'junction line' near
assistant referee. Goals scored during shootout are not included
in final score, nor added to players record. Team making kick
is determined by coin toss. No player is allowed to take a second
kick. Only a small subset of a player skill is tested by a shootout,
and is often critisized. Other tie-breaking methods may be used.
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- * Referee:
* Goalkeeper:
* Lines on Field: Penalty, Junction, ...?
* Formation: Position of players, defined by manager, to assist
in attacking or defensive soccer.
- * Penalty Kick: A free kick,
taken from 12 yards out from goal. Only the defending goalkeeper
between kicker and goal. All players other than kicker and goalkeeper
must be behind penalty mark, behind ball, & 10 yards from
ball until the ball is kicked.
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- Football (Not Soccer)
- * Different than "Association
Football" aka Soccer.
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- Basics of Professional
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- Baseball
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- Golf
- * A player uses numerious pole-like
instruments to hit a small ball into a hole, with the fewest
number of hits, called strokes. This player becomes the winner.
- * The hole is on a "course".
A course is a non-standardized playing area. Usually a grassy
field with pits of sand and or water. The holes being a distance
apart.
- * Instruments used to hit the
ball, are called a club, driver, putter, and iron.
- * There are usually 9 and or
18 holes on a course.
- * Equipment: Golf clubs, golf
balls, golf shoes, and golf bags.
- * Round:
- * Par: The number of strokes
a skilled golfer should require to complete play of a given hole.
- * Green:
- * Penalty Stroke: Occurs when
ball is lost or trapped, such as in water hazard, or player refuses
to play the ball. Penalty strokes are counted as an extra swing.
- Disqualification: Can occur
from cheating, improper play, or any rule infractions.
- * Scoring:
- * Team Play:
- * Handicap: Numerical measure
of an amateur golfer's ability to play golf over 18 holes. Handicap
generally represents the number of strokes above "par"
that a player will achieve on an above average day.
- * Tour:
- * Tee:
- * Fairway:
- * PGA:
- * LPGA:
- * Two basic forms of Golf: Stroke
Play/Stableford Points, or Match Play.
- * Basic types of shots:
drive, approach, put, chip, bump & run, punch/knockdown,
lay-up, flop, fade, hook, slice, shank, topped/bladed, duffed,
and chunked/turfed.
- * Most popular Golf courses:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf
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- Basics of MotorSport
- * Primarily involves the use
of motorised vehicles. Usually using a way array of Gasoline
Engines.
- * Motorsport can be either Racing
or NonRacing. A race is a game of speed.
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- * Motor Racing is a subset of
Motorsport. Motor Racing involves competitors racing against
each other. Such as auto racing, motorcycle racing, truck racing,
air racing, motorboat racing, snowmobile racing and lawn mower
racing.
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- * Non-Racing Motorsport examples
are motorcycle trials, freestyle motocross, drifting and tractor
pulling.
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- Basics of Mental Sports
and Board Games
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