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2. List of sports idioms - Wikipedia

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   Ball sports: To lose one's concentration on what is most important. Originates from general sporting advice to look continuously at the ball as it moves. take the (full) count Boxing: To be defeated. Refers to a boxer being knocked down, the referee counting off ten seconds, the time allotted for the boxer to regain his feet or lose the fight.

3. Five bold perspectives parents can take as their kids play ...

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   The words became a family metaphor for figuring out your role in life situations, whether it be school, sports or other social events. Sometimes we push kids into sports, or other activities, with ...

4. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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   The word strike has crept into common English usage to mean a failure, shortcoming, disadvantage, or loss. When a person has "gotten three strikes" or " struck out ", they have failed completely. Three-strikes laws are those which require the imposition of a more severe punishment for a criminal with a third conviction.

5. List of children's games - Wikipedia

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   A child playing tag.. This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder ...

6. Category:Sports terminology - Wikipedia

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   For glossaries of terms, please place the glossaries in Category:Glossaries of sports and, if one exists, the sport-specific subcategory of Category:Sports terminology. Do not a create a sport-specific subcategory just to hold a lone glossary article (it will just get up-merged again at WP:CFD ).

7. Truce term - Wikipedia

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   A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants. Common examples in English speaking cultures are barley , fainites , crosses , kings and exe(s) in the United Kingdom, pegs and nibs in New Zealand ...

8. Redshirting (academic) - Wikipedia

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   Redshirting originated as a term for a similar activity but occurring in college sports rather than kindergarten, where a redshirt was "a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility" and originated "from the red shirts worn in practice by such athletes". The term is an ...

9. List of sports - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]