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(soccer) A hit of the ball with the back of the head
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(soccer) A kick played by the heel which typically travels in the opposite direction from which the player is facing.
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(sports) Someone who kicks the ball.
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(sports) A kick that causes a spin to make the ball bend away from the player's body.
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(team sports) To make a piercing sound which signals a referee's action or the end of a game.
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to kick the ball in the manner described above.
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(sports) To play in a physically aggressive way in a contact sport, especially defensively.
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To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
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(US, idiomatic, sports) To position oneself near the opponent's goal to attempt to receive an errant or intentional pass for an easy score, as in basketball or versions of soccer where offsides are not enforced.
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(American football) A relatively easy field goal, made from a short distance.
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(handball) A player who plays along the six-meter line with his/her back facing the opponent's goal, and tries to get in between the defenders to create space so that a teammate can get in. The circle runner can also receive a pass and try to score.
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(sports, idiomatic) To clear the ball away from a dangerous position.
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(sports, in certain ball games) a throw made to restart play, e.g. in water polo after a defender was the last to touch the ball before it went over the goal line.
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(sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
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(sports) The top of the goal structure.
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(soccer) A piece of footwork where, instead of passing or crossing the ball directly by kicking it, the player drags the ball behind his planted foot with the inside of his crossing foot, turns through 180 degrees, and accelerates away from the defender.
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(sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
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(soccer, sports) The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure a undeserved penalty.
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(sports) To make multiple assists.
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(netball) A high pass for a catcher who will move into free space to receive the ball
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(transitive) To drop (a ball) and kick it after it hits the ground.
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(professional wrestling) a kick made to the opponent by leaping into the air and kicking with both feet before dropping to the ground.
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(basketball) A basketball rule where, for all or part of the fourth quarter, teams play to a target score rather than a set amount of time.
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(sports) The act of an athlete starting a race before being signaled to do so.
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(basketball) A statistic computed by dividing a player or team's made field goals by the total number of field goals he or it attempted.
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(idiomatic, soccer) to score a goal
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(soccer) Shooting ability.
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(soccer) A quick headed touch to pass to another player.
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(sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
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(soccer) The use of the bottom of the foot to control a rolling or low bouncing ball.
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(idiomatic, basketball) The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game.
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(transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
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(soccer) A tactic in which a team, after losing possession of the ball, immediately attempts to win back possession, rather than falling back to regroup
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(sports) To go towards the attacking goal.
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(sports) A fundamental maneuver in many team sports, in which two players pass the ball or puck back and forth as they move.
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(soccer) To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
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(netball) Alternative form of goal shooter [(netball) A player allowed in the goal third including the shooting circle.]
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(basketball) A violation which occurs when a player interferes with the movement of the ball toward the basket.
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A kick on the shins in football of any type.
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(Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
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(soccer, intransitive) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.
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(idiomatic, sports) To receive a yellow card.
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(sports) A player's movement of the head as if to change direction, hoping to mislead pursuers.
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Alternative form of hit-out [(UK, sports) A match or session, particularly for practice.]
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A game with the objective of keeping an object, normally a ball, from touching the ground.
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(soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
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An informal game of football, rugby or similar sports.
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(performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
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Alternative spelling of kick-off [(soccer, American football) The opening kick of each half of a game of football.]
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(soccer) A kick made by the goalkeeper from the goal area.
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(transitive, soccer) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
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(soccer) a short pass played downwards, for example from the head onto someone's feet.
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(soccer, transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).
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(darts) A line behind which a player's front foot must be placed when throwing a dart.
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(soccer, ice hockey) To shoot (the ball or puck) directly from a teammate's pass.
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(soccer, ice hockey) A shot, made from a teammate's pass, which is not stopped before shooting.
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(soccer) A chance to clear the ball to an attacking teammate, or such an attacker; a target man.
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(sports) To execute plays more successfully than another person or team
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(soccer) kicked over one's own head
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(soccer) A softly-struck chipped penalty kick into the middle of the goal.
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Alternative spelling of penalty shootout [(soccer, field hockey) A series of penalties (penalty kicks in soccer), taken to decide a winner after a game has resulted in a tie and extra time has been played.]
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(sports) A breach of the rules in certain sports, particularly involving dangerous play.
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(American football) An interception.
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(soccer) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
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Alternative form of take the ball and run with it [To continue working on something that someone else started, especially when one does so efficiently and successfully.]
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(soccer) a very hard shot.
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(sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
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The act or skill of taking placekicks.
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(sports) to let the game continue after a foul has been committed, because the situation is advantageous to the team who would be awarded a foul.
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(sports, of a defensive player or goaltender) In a game which involves control of a moving object, such as a ball or puck, to allow for angular movements of the object caused by bounces, rebounds, ricochets, etc. or to carefully guard the corners of the goal, net, or other scoring target.
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Alternative form of play the ball and not the man [(sports) To attack the ball instead of an opponent who is usually controlling the ball. Often considered a positive action, and sometimes a requirement not to concede a penalty.]
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Alternative form of play the ball and not the man [(sports) To attack the ball instead of an opponent who is usually controlling the ball. Often considered a positive action, and sometimes a requirement not to concede a penalty.]
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Alternative form of play the ball and not the man [(sports) To attack the ball instead of an opponent who is usually controlling the ball. Often considered a positive action, and sometimes a requirement not to concede a penalty.]
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(sports) To attack an opponent instead of attacking the ball, which is usually being controlled by the attacked player at the time.
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(sports) To continue playing until the referee has blown his whistle to stop play
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The act of taking something unfairly, as in tennis doubles where one player returns a shot that their partner was better placed to return.
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(soccer) An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
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(tennis) The awarding of a point for a player's opponent, as a result of infringement of the rules, e.g. foul language or time violation
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(sports) An intentional foul, usually committed to prevent a scoring opportunity.
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(UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
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(sports) To pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.
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The person who keeps score in basset or ombre.
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(soccer) The instinctive blocking of the ball by a goalkeeper.
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(transitive, intransitive) To kick for a second time (such as a ball, in sports).
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(sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
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(soccer) A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball.
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(American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
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(Australia, New Zealand) The run itself.
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(sports) The ability to catch and keep hold of (the ball, etc.)
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(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
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(soccer) A bicycle kick.
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To earn points in a game.
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(soccer) A rare type of kick in association football where the player dives headlong so his body flies parallel to the ground in a prone position and quickly extends his hips and flexes his knees backwards, so they resemble a scorpion's upright tail, to kick a football passing towards his heels, returning it in the direction it came.
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(soccer) A scorpion kick.
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(rugby, intransitive) To form a scrum.
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(soccer, colloquial) A goalkeeper. More specifically refers to the ability to make saves, as opposed to other areas of goalkeeping like distribution and coming off the line.
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(basketball) A player who is not a starter but comes off the bench much more often than other reserves.
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(UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
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(soccer) To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
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(soccer) To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
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(Gaelic football) To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
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(wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
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Alternative form of spot kick [(soccer) penalty kick]
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(soccer) A dribbling move, or feint, in football (soccer), used to fool a defensive player into thinking the offensive player, in possession of the ball, in which the foot is moved over the ball without making contact with it.
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(soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
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(soccer) A simple shot into the goal from close range, and without opposition.
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(soccer) To pass the ball to someone, facilitating a shot.
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(soccer) An overarm throw of the ball from a goalkeeper.
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(rugby) The five forwards who form the front row and the second row in the scrum.
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(soccer) A kick to a football with the toe end of the boot.
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(soccer) Alternative form of toe-poke [(soccer) A kick to a football with the toe end of the boot.]
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(transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
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(soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
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(sports) To make a player (especially a defender) turn the wrong way and hence get past him.
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(colloquial) in the state of being called upon to perform a task, particularly one for which the performer will be required to demonstrate skill to succeed
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(soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
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(video games) A sideways movement that results from a rotation of a piece that is touching the left or right walls in certain versions of the video game Tetris.
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(basketball, soccer) A defense in which each player covers an area of the court.
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