Sports Terminologies
In cricket, this term describes a ball that is out of the batters reach (to reasonably hit).
What is Wide?
The sport where players use a paddle to hit a ball over a low net on a small court.
What is Pickleball?
This player won the 2025 Ballon d’Or, awarded annually to the best male footballer in the world.
Who is Ousmane Dembélé?
This Indian cricketer is the highest run-scorer in international cricket.
Who is Sachin Tendulkar?
This standard Olympic track race is one full lap around the track and tests both speed and endurance.
What is the 400 meters?
In tennis, the term used when a player wins a point directly from his/her serve.
What is Ace?
The First Grand Slam in tennis of the calendar year.
What is the Australian Open?
This athlete won an unprecedented 8 gold medals at a single Olympic Games in 2008.
Who is Michael Phelps?
These are the two small wooden pieces that sit atop the stumps and must be dislodged to break the wicket and get a batsman out bowled, stumped, or run out.
What is Bails?
The record set by Usian Bolt for the 100m sprint.
What is 9.58 seconds?
This term is used when a footballer scores three goals in a single match—one with the right foot, one with the left foot, and one with a header.
What is a perfect hat-trick?
This is the number of points a player must reach to win a standard game of table tennis, provided they lead by at least two points.
What is 11 points?
This Indian athlete won the country’s first Olympic gold in javelin throw at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Who is Neeraj Chopra?
This country won the inaugural Cricket World Cup held in 1975.
What is West Indies?
This woman holds the world record as the fastest sprinter in history, completing 100 meters in 10.49 seconds.
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner?
In golf, completing a hole in two stroke under par is called this.
What is Eagle?
This country has produced the most world squash champions in both men’s and women’s singles, dominating the sport for decades.
What is Egypt?
This tennis player holds the record for spending the most weeks as world number one in the ATP/WTA rankings.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
In Test cricket, the maximum number of over that can be bowled in a day?
The name of the event where female athletes participate in multiple events over 2 days.
What is the heptathlon?
In basketball, this rule is broken when a player touches the ball while it’s going down toward the basket or is on the rim.
What is Goaltending?
This country has won the most Thomas Cup titles in badminton, making it the most successful team in the tournament’s history.
What is Indonesia?
This gymnast holds the record for the most Olympic medals in gymnastics, winning a total of 18 across the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Games.
Who is Larisa Latynina?
This bowler holds the record for the most wickets taken in Test cricket history.
Who is Muralidaran?
The standard distance of the Marathon in kilometers.
What is 42.195 kilometers?