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Ball sports fall within many sport categories, some sports within multiple categories, including: Bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball. Invasion games, such as football and basketball. Net and wall games, such as volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce.
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Batter boxes: 2 rectangles of 6 feet (1.8 m) x 4 feet (1.2 m), 29 inches (0.74 m) apart from each other Batter boxes: 2 rectangles of 7 feet (2.1 m) x 3 feet (0.91 m), 29 inches (0.74 m) apart from each other Batter boxes Before bowling crease Safe havens 4 3 4 2 2 2 Foul zones Yes Yes No Yes Yes Surface Grass and dirt
Line (or staying on line, holding the line): A ball's intended or actual path down the lane, especially the substantially straight path from the foul line to the breakpoint. Staying on line and holding the line mean the ball successfully follows the intended path.
All cue sports are generally regarded to have evolved into indoor games from outdoor stick-and-ball lawn games, [2] specifically those retroactively termed ground billiards, [3] and as such to be related to the historical games jeu de mail and palle-malle, and modern trucco, croquet, and golf, and more distantly to the stickless bocce and bowls.
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 ).
In Jones and Wilkinson, when describing the nose guard play in their 5-2 defense, the authors warn that the guard must never allow the center to cut you either way (i.e. two-gap technique). [25] All other defensive linemen are only asked to prevent their opposing linemen from blocking them in one-gap play, but they do not use the phrase 'gap ...