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Established since 1993

Sporting Vocabulary & Terms

(This page will grow as more sports are added)

THE CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE

• List-1:  Sport, Equipment, Sportswear, Place/Venue

• List-2:  Sport, People, Action Verbs, Sporting Terms

• DO v GO v PLAY

RELATED PAGES

• Link to more free vocabulary lists & ESL exercises

• External Link: Table Tennis Links

• Suggest a sport & send vocabulary (Please write: 'sport vocabulary' in the subject line)

• Chants for young supporters at sports events

• Coach songs for school outings

SPORT

EQUIPMENT

SPORTSWEAR

BOXING

people, verbs, vocabulary for boxing 

• towel

• stool

• gloves
• shorts

• boxing ring

• hall

CRICKET

people, verbs, vocabulary for cricket

• bat
• ball
• stumps
• wicket

• whites

• shin pads

• box

• pitch

TABLE-TENNIS

people, verbs, vocabulary for table-tennis

• bat

• table

• ball

normal sportswear

• sports hall

HOCKEY (known as field hockey in America)

people, verbs, vocabulary for hockey

• hockey stick
• ball

• tee-shirt
• shorts
• hockey boots
• shin pads

• hockey field

ICE HOCKEY

• hockey stick

• puck

• ice rink

DIVING

people, verbs, vocabulary for diving

• 1 metre & 3 metre spring boards
• diving board

• swimming costume (female) (slang: 'cossie')
• swimming trunks (male)
• swimming cap

• pool

POOL

• cue
• 9 balls
• pool table

• casual clothing

• pool hall

SWIMMING

people, verbs, vocabulary for swimming

• ear-plugs

• nose-clip

• armbands

• floats

• goggles

• swimming costume (female) (slang: 'cossie')
• swimming trunks (male)
• swimming cap

• pool

SPORT

PEOPLE

ACTION VERBS

RELEVANT VOCABULARY

BOXING

equipment, clothes, place for boxing

• boxer

• referee

• to box
• to punch
• to jab
• to duck
• to parry
• to dodge
• to knock s.o. out
• to be knocked down
• to come round

• an uppercut

• a southpaw

• a knockout

• the count

• a round

• the bell

TABLE-TENNIS

equipment, clothes, place for table-tennis 

• player

• umpire

• to play table-tennis

• to play doubles

• to serve

• to chop

• to loop

• to return a serve

• to do topspin

• to do forehand/backhand

• to bounce

• to double-bounce

• to score a point

• a rally

• a leg

• a match

• service

• sidespin

SCORES

• 0-0 = love all

• 2-0 = two/love

• 20-20 = deuce

• 21-11= game/eleven

HOCKEY

equipment, clothes, place for hockey

• player
• goalkeeper
• umpire

• to play hockey
• to do a ........
• to tackle
• to block
• to cross sticks
• to push the ball
• to flick the ball
• to score (against..)
• to blow the whistle

• team
• the circle
• the penalty corner

TO BE ......

• offside

• disqualified

TO DO ......

• a reverse stick
• a flick
• a push
• a slapshot
• a bully
• a side hit
• a cross

CRICKET

equipment, clothes, place for cricket

• cricketer

• umpire

• to play cricket
• to bat
• to win/lose the toss
• to bowl 
• to hit the ball for six
• to be caught out
• to have (10) runs

• leg before wicket
• a century
• runs

DIVING

equipment, clothes, place for diving

• a diver

• to dive
• to enter the water (like a dart)
• to create too much splash
• to do a belly-flop 

• a forward 1½ somersault with 1 twist
• a back .... with ......
• a reverse ..... with ....

POOL

• a pool player

• to play pool

• chalk

SWIMMING

equipment, clothes, place for swimming 

• a swimmer

• to swim
• to float
• to do backstroke
• to do the butterflystroke/the crawl/the breaststroke

• a gala
• a belly-flop (slang for doing a horizontal dive and landing on your stomach)

DO/GO/PLAY

• What sports do you DO?
• I DO swimming, sailing, hockey, skiing, football and squash

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• What activities to you DO (in your free time)?
• I DO yoga, gymnastics, aerobics and chess.

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• What are you DOING tonight? 
• I'm DOING boxing, swimming, sailing, hockey, skiing, football, squash, yoga, gymnastics, aerobics
• I'm PLAYING chess, hockey, football, pool
• I'm GOING swimming, sailing, skiing.
• I'm GOING to yoga, to gymnastics, to aerobics

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• Where are you GOING tonight?
• I'm GOING swimming, sailing, skiing.
• I'm GOING to yoga, to gymnastics, to aerobics
• I'm GOING to PLAY chess, pool
• I'm GOING to THE pool hall, swimming pool

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This section was added in response to a query from Ewa Schlünssen, Denmark.

• Sporting Photos (rugby, boxing, tennis, formula-1)

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