Sports Lingo - It's A Thing. How Many Of These Words Do YOU Know?

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Only true sports fans can pass this quiz!

Find out how much you really love sports by taking this quiz and matching up the words and terms with their correct meanings.

 
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Many people believe that they are true sports fans, but you'd be surprised how many actually don't know the basic words and terminology used across a variety of sports. Of course football fans know football words and hockey fans know hockey words, and tennis fans know what love means and soccer fans know soccer terms. Basketball fans know all the words associated with their sport, and same with NASCAR, and same with athletics, and same with baseball and volleyball. But it takes a true overall sports fan to ace a quiz that tests the vocab used in a wide range of sports! How do you measure up? Do you know what a touchdown means when it comes to football, or what kind of pitch a change up is in baseball? When it comes to basketball, do you know what actually has to happen to qualify as an airball? How much do you know about tennis terms like ad court and break, or about basketball terms like bench and brick. Do you know when happy hour comes for NASCAR drivers? What about what it means when people in football talk about interception, or people in baseball talk about double play? Do you know what dribbling is when it comes to basketball, or what a slice is in the world of golf? Can you identify when football players are fumbling, or when basketball players cross the end line? Take this quiz to find out how much you know about the various sports popular in the United States and around the world!

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