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Sports Terms Quiz #1

We give you the term. You tell us the sport.
Give us the American name for the sport
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Last updated: August 28, 2018
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First submittedJune 25, 2010
Times taken160,435
Average score63.6%
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Term
Sport
Puck
Ice Hockey
Pick & Roll
Basketball
Shuttlecock
Badminton
Peloton
Cycling
Scrum
Rugby
Suicide Squeeze
Baseball
Stiff Arm
Football
Yokozuna
Sumo
Term
Sport
Ollie
Skateboarding
Suplex
Wrestling
Uppercut
Boxing
Groundstroke
Tennis
Bogey
Golf
Double Axel
Figure Skating
Épée
Fencing
Term
Sport
Corner Kick
Soccer
Turkey
Bowling
Coxswain
Rowing
Ceiling Shot
Racquetball
Backstroke
Swimming
Huck
Ultimate Frisbee
Penhold Grip
Table Tennis
49 Comments
+20
Level 48
Jul 10, 2013
American Football should be accepted for Football
+4
Level 32
Jul 10, 2013
pretty easy, although snowboarding should be accepted for ollie as well, it is simply jumping on a board
+3
Level 37
Jul 10, 2013
isn't Squash the same thing as Racquetball?
+2
Level 66
Jun 17, 2014
Squash should be acceptable for racquetball .
+5
Level 65
Jul 5, 2016
Incorrect. The ceiling is not in play in squash, but is in racquetball.
+4
Level 43
Jul 10, 2013
Huck is also a big jump in extreme sports. Mountain Biking is one.
+1
Level 86
Dec 3, 2013
Also, tried skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, couldn't figure that one out.
+5
Level 21
Jul 26, 2013
Stiff Arm is also used in rugby
+3
Level 65
Apr 28, 2016
It's also used in grappling martial arts like judo to describe someone acting overly defensive by holding on to their opponent and locking their arms to keep someone away from them.
+3
Level 23
Sep 8, 2013
thanks for including ultimate
+6
Level 34
May 9, 2014
You should accept gridiron and american football - not only does "football" refer to different codes of football in different countries, in Australia it even refers to different codes depending on state.
+8
Level 13
May 12, 2014
No 'football' acceptable for soccer? Also, 'sailing' should be acceptable for coxswain as well as rowing.
+5
Level 45
May 27, 2014
All the people who are saying 'You should use different terms that show up in different countries', it says on top, 'Give us the American name'.
+1
Level 46
Jul 16, 2014
Well, I only knew a few of these. After I guessed the ones I knew, I just started guessing sports at random, and I got most of them. I suppose to make it more of a challenge, you could make it so we had to fill in the sport name next to the term.
+1
Level 46
Jul 28, 2014
Tricky! Can't believe i missed cycling
+4
Level 50
Dec 4, 2014
I seriously sat here thinking "I bet that's Sumo Wrestling. What's that called?"... and missed it.
+2
Level 46
Jan 4, 2015
Is Frisbee seriously a professional sport
+4
Level 72
Jun 14, 2019
why would throwing a disk be less of a sport than hitting a ball with a stick or your feet. Or throwing a ball ( that covers most of the sports I guess)
+3
Level 75
Feb 27, 2020
"professional" sport. If there are no governing bodies or paid participants then it probably would be considered a sport but not a professional one.
+1
Level 37
Mar 8, 2021
I hate when people say golf isn't a sport, it's harder than most others!!
+6
Level 76
Sep 28, 2015
aka how many sports can you think of and hope they are on there somewhere
+4
Level 50
Jan 11, 2021
there should be a yellow box
+1
Level 72
Oct 29, 2015
maybe accept association football
+1
Level 48
Nov 23, 2015
Aren't raquetball and squash kind of the same thing?
+1
Level 65
Mar 11, 2016
Similar but different, you can do a ceiling shot in squash though so it should be accepted as a correct answer.
+1
Level 72
Jun 14, 2019
wrong look it up, if it is rules where you can hit the ceiling it is racquetball.
+4
Level 83
Jan 21, 2016
I just ended up guessing random sports. I'm rubbish at sporty questions. But no cricket? That's just not... oh never mind.
+1
Level 59
Oct 23, 2020
Seems odd, since it is so popular in South Asia.
+2
Level 65
Mar 11, 2016
Huck is a term in a lot of sports, you either need to accept the other sports as well or change it to another term.
+1
Level 52
Sep 1, 2016
agree
+1
Level 43
Mar 9, 2022
It's a sound you hear on many team-bonding exercises too, usually ones involving alcohol and a race.
+3
Level 70
Apr 10, 2016
I guessed Darts for 'Pen hold grip'...... didn't think of Table Tennis
+1
Level 85
Apr 29, 2019
Same
+1
Level 66
Sep 1, 2017
No "frisbee" (let alone "discus") for ultimate frisbee? Fair, but harsh.
+3
Level 35
Jan 27, 2018
the comments are brilliant ... football or soccer - seen "corner kick" so typed football and the "stiff arm" clue filled in, so being the reasonable Brit that I am, and having read the "bit at the top" I type soccer. . It's not difficult. It's an Amertican based website, we all know that, so live with it.

BUT - what on earth is "Ultimate Frisbee"... and don't tell me there's a "Normal Frisbee" too...

+2
Level 89
Jul 22, 2019
Ultimate frisbee is a "non-contact team sport played with a flying disc". It's fun.
+1
Level 18
Jul 14, 2018
got 22 out of 22 it was fun but not that easy
+1
Level 46
Jul 17, 2018
ceiling shot might apply to handball or squash also
+2
Level 59
Nov 17, 2018
There is a shot named uppercut in cricket. ie; it is not a term limited to boxing. Cricket should also be accepted
+3
Level 77
Dec 13, 2019
Football should seriously be accepted for soccer, and American Football for "Football".
+1
Level 82
Jul 7, 2020
I thought tenpin would be a short cut for tenpin bowling, but it seems not. Nor is tenpin bowling allowed. Just "bowling".

There are of course other sports called bowling. In the UK, we have crown green bowling and flat green bowling.

+1
Level 75
Aug 25, 2020
Probably right, but I think of those other sports you mention as 'bowls'.
+1
Level 14
Sep 30, 2020
hello,

me and handog rated this quiz unna although was a tad bit westernized if unno what i mean aka yankeedoodle, since when is ultimate frisbee a sport, may as well call a dartsman a proffessional sportier.

thank you for the quiz

+4
Level 32
Apr 3, 2021
Who Cheated Like Me 😂
+1
Level 70
May 13, 2021
I for some reason decided to type Ultimate Frisbee haha
+1
Level 63
Jan 8, 2022
uppercut is in cricket too
+2
Level 25
Feb 25, 2022
isn't football basically soccer?
+2
Level 43
Mar 9, 2022
10-pin bowling and golf are games, not sports; figure skating is an art, not a sport.

Discuss.

+1
Level 72
Mar 10, 2022
"Huck" is a pretty generic term used by certain groups describing all sorts of sports. Perhaps I'm not familiar enough with the sport listed as the official answer, but I feel like that one could use a clearer hint, as I had guessed nearly a dozen other sports before guessing correctly, and, looking at the other comments, I'm not alone in that situation.