Glossary

Sports glossary

Every term that matters, in plain English — so you never have to nod along.

Football

11

Catenaccio False Nine Gegenpressing Handball High Line Low Block Nutmeg Offside Trap Park the bus Tifo xG

Basketball

4

Drop Coverage Load Management Pick and Roll Triple-double

American Football

7

Blitz Cover 2 Hail Mary Pick-six Play Action Red zone Zone blitz

Ice Hockey

10

Cross-checking Empty-net goal Five-hole Forecheck Hat trick High-sticking Icing One-timer Penalty kill Power play

Baseball

7

Balk Closer No-hitter Quality Start Sacrifice fly The Shift Walk-off

Cricket

5

Doosra Googly Maiden over Powerplay Yorker

Rugby

3

Maul Offload The Ruck

Motorsport

12

Blue flag DRS Dirty air Formation lap Grid Penalty Parc ferme Pit stop Safety Car Slipstream The Overcut Tyre degradation Undercut

MMA

11

Clinch Ground and Pound Guard Guillotine choke Leg kick Octagon control Pound-for-Pound Rear-naked choke Sprawl Submission Takedown defense

Athletics

1

Cycling

2

Domestique Peloton

General

3

Bogey Breakaway GOAT