Curling

Curling

Terms of or pertaining to the sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four rings.

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Double take-out

Sports; Curling

When one stone is able to knock two opponents stones out of the house.

End

Sports; Curling

An end is complete when all 16 stones, eight per team, two per person, have been shot. It is at the conclusion of each end that the score is added up. A game is made up of 10 ends.

Every inch

Sports; Curling

This just means that the sweepers should be sweeping hard all the way down the ice. This is an order given by the Skip.

Fill the port

Sports; Curling

This means to try and put a stone in the port, so that an opposing player can't play a stone through it. See Port

An area after the Hog Line and in front of the house where the first two players may place their stones to block a clean shot to the house. The first two players on each team are not allowed to move ...

Freeze

Sports; Curling

A type of draw that ends up and stops right in front of and next to another rock, without moving it.

Guard

Sports; Curling

This is a stone that is placed in front of another stone that is in the house thus preventing the opposition from hitting the stone that is in the house.