Basketball
A shot attempt that does not touch the basket or the backboard at all and missed the mark to count as a shot.
What is a airball?
A wrestling match begins with this position.
What is neutral?
This term describes a short sprinting race, typically 60 or 100 meters.
What is a dash?
The term for the swimming event where competitors swim four different strokes in a specific order.
What is the individual medley (IM)?
A spring using the head as a lever from a position lying on the ground.
What is a Headspring?
When a player tosses the ball up towards the basket while another player simultaneously leaps up, catches the ball in mid-air, and dunks it.
What is a Alley-oop?
The term for a move that results in one wrestler gaining control over the other.
What is a takedown?
When one athlete hands the baton to their teammate.
What is a handoff?
Occurs when a swimmer either leaves the starting block or is moving on the block before the starter officially starts the race.
What is a False Start?
The term for synchronized, explosive arm and leg movements in hip-hop choreography.
What is hitting?
A defensive strategy where players guard specific areas instead of individuals.
What is a zone defense?
A match ends immediately when one wrestler secures the other’s shoulders to the mat.
What is a pin or fall?
The final leg of a relay race, typically run by the fastest team member.
Used in freestyle and backstroke races, where swimmers somersault before reaching the wall and push off with their feet, never touching the wall with their hands.
What is a Flip Turn?
An acrobatic move in which a person transitions from a supine, and less commonly, a prone position, to a standing position.
What is a Kippup?
A legal block set by an offensive player on the side of or behind a defender to help a teammate.
What is a pick?
This term is used for when a wrestler breaks from their opponent’s hold and gains a point.
What is an escape?
What an individual ran during their relay. All members of a relay get a split time and those times are added up for the team’s final time.
What is a Relay Split?
The beginning of a breaststroke start or turn, where a swimmer is allowed one long pull down to their waist, during which a single butterfly kick is permitted, followed by a breaststroke kick.
What is a Pullout?
A French dance term borrowed from ballet; most of hip hop is performed in plie, meaning with the knees bent.
What is a Pliè?
A dunk over a defender, right in their face.
Facial.
A wrestling bout can also be won by accumulating this many points more than the opponent.
What is a technical fall (15-point difference)?
The outward roll of the foot during normal motion, causing the runner to lose speed.
What is Supination?
A race strategy in which a competitor swims the second half faster than the first.
What is a Negative split?
A style of dance characterized by angular arm and hand movements, often inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is Tutting?