Sex and sports. Sports and sex. Both can involve sweating, panting, and an elevated heart rate. There’s also gear—all those balls, sticks, paddles, harnesses, and protection. What about language? Tennis has its love, wrestling has its submission holds, swimming has its strokes, and soccer has its beloved headers. But…what about all those other sporting terms and phrases being sadly neglected as sexy euphemisms? Here are ten to get you out of the starting gate:
1. Double Dribble
In basketball, you can’t dribble, hold the ball, and then dribble again. It’s a violation. Dual drooling, however, might not result in a stoppage of play.
2. Standing 8
The good folks at AnswerBag, explain the boxing term: “When a fighter looks to be in trouble … the referee stops the fight and counts to 8 so that he may determine if the boxer is able to continue.” In bedroom terms, this one sounds like a boast.
3. Hang 10
Say this while surfing and yeah, you’ve got ten toes hanging off the end of your longboard. Say this during sex and longboard takes on a whole new meaning.
4. Slider
It’s a baseball pitch, something between a curve and a fastball, and it’s often described as “nasty.” Insert your own double entendre here.
5. Belly Putter
This is a golf club—a putter with a longer than usual shaft. Insert your own Tiger Woods joke here.
6. Change of Ends
At the end of odd-numbered sets, tennis players switch sides. Such swapping can take place in other love matches but usually not at pre-determined intervals.
7. Position Play
A term used in both billiards (setting up your next shot) and poker (letting everyone else act before you play your hand), “position play” is about as fundamental and versatile a euphemism as you’re gonna find in the sports world.
8. Crack Climbing
Some rock climbers go up the face. Some go up the crack. Some do both. Almost all use ropes and harnesses. No further comment.
9. False Start
Hey, it happens to all of us every now and then.
10. Endgame
In chess, this means there are few pieces left on the board. In a different setting, who knows where the pieces may end up?
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