This page gathers the 3,248 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Games”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 7 of 33: from “conventional” to “cycle”.
- conventional adj In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
- conversion noun A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- convert noun The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
- convex noun A playing card made convex for use in cheating.
- cook noun An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- cookies noun Referring to a steal in basketball. Rarely used in the singular (most commonly, even when referring to a single steal, one simply exclaims…
- cooler noun A cold deck.
- coordinator noun An assistant coach responsible for a particular facet of the game, such as defense.
- copper verb In the game of faro: to place a copper coin, or now usually a small disc or token, on (a playing card) to indicate that a player bets…
- cordon noun The arc of fielders on the off side, behind the batsman: the slips and gully.
- cork verb To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- cork out verb To hit the ball, especially powerfully, with a particular result.
- cork up verb To put cork in a baseball bat; to use a baseball bat with cork in it.
- corked bat noun A bat that has been tampered with by drilling out part of the head of the bat and filling the resulting cavity with a light, compressible…
- corner noun One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- corner kick noun A kick awarded to the attacking team when the ball leaves the field of play by wholly crossing the goal line without a goal having been…
- cornerback noun Any of the defensive players who are in position on each side farthest laterally from the ball and whose principal responsibility is to…
- cornerman noun A player who can play both the small forward and power forward positions.
- corpse camp verb To wait by a player's corpse to target them when they respawn, or when, after respawning elsewhere, they return to reclaim their equipment…
- corpse camper noun A player who camps specifically next to the enemy's corpse (or, by the closest graveyard) with the purpose of continuously eliminating that…
- corpse run verb To navigate one's player character back to the site of one's prior death in order to resurrect oneself and reclaim lost items.
- correspondence chess noun A form of chess where players use a remote method of communication such as the mail or the Internet to send each other their moves.
- corridor of uncertainty noun The area near the batsman's off stump where, if a ball passes, the batsman is unsure whether to play it (and risk an edge) or leave it (and…
- costly noun Short for costly colours.
- cottager noun Someone connected with Fulham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- count noun The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
- count cards verb To keep track of the cards that have been dealt and those that remain in the deck, in order to calculate the likelihood of certain hands in…
- counter noun Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- counterplay noun A counterattack in a different part of the board.
- counterrevolt verb in Tycoon, to perform a counterrevolution; to undo a revolution and set the card hierarchy back to normal.
- counterrevolution noun in Tycoon, to undo a revolution, setting the card hierarchy back to normal.
- counting-out game noun A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person…
- coup noun One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- court card noun A king, queen, jack, or sometimes ace in a standard deck of playing cards.
- courtesan noun A fairy chess piece that can move to any adjacent square, that, when captured, the capturing piece is also eliminated.
- cover noun A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- cover drive noun A type of shot played by the batsman bringing the bat down vertically and hitting the ball along the ground in the direction of cover.
- cover point noun a fielding position between cover and point, about 15° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- covers noun The area of the field near cover and extra cover.
- cowboy noun A playing card of king rank.
- cowboys and Indians noun A children's game, with chasing and mock battles, in which the players assume the traditional roles of cowboys and American Indians.
- cowgirl noun A playing card of queen rank.
- Cozio's mate noun A checkmate pattern in which a queen, supported by a piece of its same color, is placed diagonally adjacent to the enemy king. The two…
- crabs noun A dice roll of two aces.
- cradle verb To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- crampet noun A hack (metal plate for a curler to stand on when delivering the stones).
- crank noun A baseball fan.
- crap noun A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
- crap out verb To lose a game of craps by rolling a seven.
- craps noun A game of gambling, or chance, where the players throw dice to make scores and avoid crap.
- crazy eights noun A card game in which players try to rid themselves of their cards by playing a matching rank or suit on the previous card played, having to…
- crazyhouse noun A variant of chess, similar to bughouse chess but with only two players, allowing a player to place captured pieces back on the board as…
- cream puff noun A weak pitch.
- crease noun One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and…
- creeper noun A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- cribbage noun A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121…
- cricket whites noun The traditional clothing worn by cricketers, consisting of white trousers, shirt and optionally sweater.
- croquet noun A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
- cross verb Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- cross bat noun The bat, when swung in a horizontal arc.
- cross-shot noun A shot from one side of the field towards the opposite corner of the goal.
- crossback noun A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- crosscheck noun A penalty where a player hits another player with the shaft of their lacrosse stick with their hands spread apart.
- crosskick noun A kicked pass from one side of the pitch to the other.
- crossover noun A crossover dribble.
- crossover dribble noun A maneuver in which a dribbling player rapidly switches the ball from one side to the other in order to move around a defender.
- crossruff noun A play in which tricks are taken by taking alternate ruffs in each hand
- crossword noun A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.
- crotch noun In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
- crotched adj Lying within one of the crotches on the table.
- crowd catch noun A catch of a ball which was played into the ground near the batsman and bounced up to a fielder. Spectators who could not see from a…
- crunch time noun The last few minutes of play in the fourth quarter.
- crunchy adj Of a game, having significant calculation (number-crunching), complex analysis, or strategic optimization for players to think about.
- Cruyff turn noun A piece of footwork where, instead of passing or crossing the ball directly by kicking it, the player drags the ball behind his planted…
- cryptogram noun A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.
- CS noun Initialism of caught stealing (especially as a statistic).
- cub noun A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
- cubie noun One of the smaller cubes making up a Rubik's cube.
- cue verb To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
- cue ball noun The white ball which, after being struck by the cue, collides with the other balls to achieve the object of the particular game.
- cue up verb To take aim on the cue ball with the cue in a game of snooker, or billiards, etc.
- cuebid noun A bid of a suit that has already been bid by opponents.
- cup noun The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- cup final noun The last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup competition.
- cup of coffee noun The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
- cup of tea noun three
- cup-tied adj ineligible to compete in a cup competition due to having previously played for a different team in the same competition in the same season.
- curator noun A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.
- curl noun Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
- curler noun A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.
- curveball noun A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
- cush noun The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
- cushion noun The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- cut adj Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- cut card noun A brightly coloured plastic card that serves to mark the point where the dealer will reshuffle the cards, to allow the player to cut the…
- cut fastball noun A pitch thrown with an offset grip and a moderate amount of added pressure by middle finger yielding a combination of backspin and some…
- cutback noun An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- cutline noun A line on the front wall, above which the ball must hit for a serve
- cutter noun A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- cycle noun A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.