{"id":172,"date":"2010-02-19T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:40:59","slug":"olympics-vocabulary-curling-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/olympics-vocabulary-curling-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics Vocabulary – Curling Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of our fabulous 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, I am posting some sports-related vocabulary and expressions, so that you may enjoy the games more and have a better chance of understanding the plays of the sports.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Curling Glossary (from http:\/\/www.ecf-web.org\/glossary.html )<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
BACK LINE<\/td>\nThe line behind the house. Once crossed a stone is out of play<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BITER<\/td>\nA stone barely touching the 12-foot ring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BLANK END<\/td>\nAn end in which neither team has a stone in the house<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BONSPIEL<\/td>\nA curling tournament<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BURNT STONE<\/td>\nA stone touched while in motion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BUTTON<\/td>\nThe smallest ring in the house. It is two feet in diameter, also called the “potlid”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DELIVERY<\/td>\nThe process of throwing a stone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CENTRE LINE<\/td>\nThe line that runs down the middle of the sheet from hack to hack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DRAW<\/td>\nA stone that comes to rest within the house<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ECF<\/td>\nEuropean Curling Federation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EIGHT ENDER<\/td>\nAn end where all eight stones of one team are better than the opposition’s closest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
END<\/td>\nWhen sixteen stones have come to rest. Similar to an inning in baseball<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EXTRA END<\/td>\nThe deciding end played when the score is level after all scheduled ends have been played<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FREEZE<\/td>\nA stone coming to rest touching another stone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FREE GUARD ZONE<\/td>\nThe area between the hog line and the tee line excluding the house<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FREE GUARD ZONE RULE<\/td>\nThe rule that states that an opponent\u2019s stone in the Free Guard Zone cannot be removed from play until after the first four stones have been played<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GUARD<\/td>\nA shot that comes to rest in front of another stone for protection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HACK<\/td>\nThe pieces of rubber you push off from at either end of the sheet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HAMMER<\/td>\nThe last shot of the end<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOGGED<\/td>\nA shot that comes to rest short or on the hog line and is removed from play<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOG LINE<\/td>\nThe line 10,06 meter (33 feet) from the hack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HOUSE<\/td>\nThe target area 12 feet in diameter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HURRY!<\/td>\nTo sweep immediately and hard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IN-TURN<\/td>\nA stone that rotates clockwise for a right-handed player<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LEAD<\/td>\nPlayer of a team who plays the first two stones for his team in an end<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OUT-TURN<\/td>\nA stone that rotates counter clock-wise for a right-handed player<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PEBBLE<\/td>\nThe frozen bumps on the ice that the stones ride on<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PEEL<\/td>\nA hard takeout designed to remove guards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PORT<\/td>\nA space between two lying stones, large enough for another one to pass through<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAISE<\/td>\nPromotion; to move a lying stone further<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RCCC<\/td>\nThe Royal Caledonian Curling Club (Scotland) – the mother club of curling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RINK<\/td>\nThe building where curling takes place or
\nA curling team or
\nThe sheet of ice on which a curling game is played<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ROCK<\/td>\nThe alternative (North American) term for a stone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SECOND<\/td>\nPlayer who plays his two stones second for his team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SHEET<\/td>\nThe total playing area for one game<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SHOT<\/td>\nA played stone or
\nThe word used to indicate a point won at the end of an end (shot rock)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SKIP<\/td>\nThe captain of the team, usually (but not necessarily) plays last two stones of a team in an end<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SPINNER<\/td>\nA stone thrown with excessive spin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
STEAL<\/td>\nScoring a point without last stone advantage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TAKE-OUT<\/td>\nA stone thrown hard enough to remove another stone from play. Also called a “HIT”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TEE<\/td>\nThe cross in the centre of the house<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TEE LINE<\/td>\nThe line that intersects the house at the centreline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THE “TOSS”<\/td>\nThe toss of the coin to determine last rock in the first end<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
THIRD<\/td>\nPlayer who plays his two stones third; often Vice-Skip of the team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WCF<\/td>\nWorld Curling Federation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WCT<\/td>\nWorld Curling Tour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WCT-E<\/td>\nWorld Curling Tour – Europe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WEIGHT<\/td>\nThe momentum applied to a stone for distance<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of our fabulous 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, I am posting some sports-related vocabulary and expressions, so that you may enjoy the games more and have a better chance of understanding the plays of the sports.\u00a0 Enjoy! Curling Glossary (from http:\/\/www.ecf-web.org\/glossary.html ) BACK LINE The line behind the house. Once crossed a stone is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[535,537],"tags":[674,671,675,584,673],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-curling","tag-expressions","tag-olympics","tag-slang","tag-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}