Sport
- Bridge (exercise)
- In grappling, the technique of pushing the hips upwards to offbalance a top opponent, for instance by trying to escape the mount.
- Supporting the cue stick near its tip for a shot in billiards either by hand or sometimes with the help of a mechanical bridge.
- A climbing technique, used for climbing corners.
- In basketball, the act of trying to box out an airborne opponent (while shooting or rebounding, for example), getting under the opponents legs, and causing them to become unbalanced & topple to the ground.
- In bench pressing, the technique of pushing the hips upward to gain a mechanical advantage allowing for favorable angling and synergy among the pectorals, deltoids, and triceps to press the weight upward while decreasing the distance the bar must travel to complete the lift.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)