10 sports terms for fun

[Kayless]

Try not to google! which sports are these terms from:
1) Fleaflicker
2) Eggbeater
3) Brassie
4) Mad House
5) Scissors
6) Koka
7) King pear
8) Nutmeg
9)Carom
10) Pendulum
some may be more than one sport.

[pa___ul3]

I know scissors is used in rugby and nutmeg is obviously in football

[Frank97]

Mad House - Darts.

[The Builder]

Scissors ......... also High Jump?
Carom ........... skiing?

[snags]

Fleaflicker - American Football I think...

[sir.prize]

10. Gymnastics?

[Kayless]

yes scissors is Rugby and also High jump
yes mad house is darts
yes Fleaflicket is American Football
Carom my be skiing term but it's not what I had in mind

[The Builder]

Carom ......... billiards?

[Kayless]

I don't think there's a pendulum in gymnastics

[Kayless]

I'll accept Billiards for 9) but it's much more comonly used in 9 ball.

[snags]

Is eggbeater a kicking manouvre in swimming... to make you go further underwater at the turn?

[Mamyalynne]

3 Brassie - Golf
8 Nutmeg - Football

[Mamyalynne]

5 Scissors is a move in Wrestling also

[Kayless]

yes snags, used in waterpolo

[Mamyalynne]

6 Koka - Judo ?

[Mamyalynne]

10 Pendulum - abseiling ?

[rowanwitch]

Carom is also a game in its own right played on a special table with sliding pieces its pretty fast and a bit obscure...

Pendulum in gymnastics is a side to side movement with the body held straight usually on the high bar of the asymetrics although could be done on the rings

Koka is a point scoring move in judo

[Kayless]

well we seem to have got them, the pendulum I had in mind was from billiards.