Cheating, the Glossary
Cheating generally describes various actions designed to subvert rules in order to obtain unfair advantages.[1]
Table of Contents
109 relations: Academy, Advantage gambling, American football, Anti-competitive practices, Baseball, Batting (baseball), Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter), Black Sox Scandal, Boxing, Bribery, British English, Card marking, Casino, Cheating at the Paralympic Games, Cheating in bridge, Cheating in chess, Cheating in esports, Cheating in online games, Cheating in poker, Cheering, Coaching, College sports, Collusion, Comparison of American and British English, Competition law, Convention (norm), Corked bat, Cricket, Cronyism, Denver Broncos, Dice, Diego Maradona, Doping in sport, Emery ball, England national football team, Ethics, Figure skating, First-person shooter, Fog of war, Fraud, Freakonomics, Free-to-play, Gallup, Inc., Gambling, Gaming the system, Goalkeeper (association football), Golf, Graphing calculator, HarperCollins, Imperial examination, ... Expand index (59 more) »
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Academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).
Advantage gambling
Advantage gambling, or advantage play, refers to legal methods used to gain an advantage while gambling, in contrast to cheating.
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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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Anti-competitive practices
Anti-competitive practices are business or government practices that prevent or reduce competition in a market.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
Batting (baseball)
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team.
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Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter)
Benjamin Sinclair Johnson, (born December 30, 1961) is a Canadian former sprinter.
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Black Sox Scandal
The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB) in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payment from a gambling syndicate, possibly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.
Bribery
Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty and to incline the individual to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.
British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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Card marking
Card marking is the process of altering playing cards in a method only apparent to marker or conspirator, such as by bending or adding visible marks to a card.
Casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.
Cheating at the Paralympic Games
Cheating at the Paralympic Games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) manages the events.
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Cheating in bridge
Cheating in bridge refers to a deliberate violation of the rules of the game of bridge or other unethical behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team.
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Cheating in chess
Cheating in chess is a deliberate violation of the rules of chess or other behaviour that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team.
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Cheating in esports
Cheating in esports is a deliberate violation of the rules of an esports governing body or other behavior that is intended to give an unfair advantage to a player or team.
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Cheating in online games
On online games, cheating subverts the rules or mechanics of the games to gain an unfair advantage over other players, generally with the use of third-party software.
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Cheating in poker
Cheating in poker is any behavior outside the rules of poker that is intended to give an unfair advantage to one or more players.
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Cheering
Cheering involves the uttering or making of sounds and may be used to encourage, excite to action, indicate approval or welcome.
Coaching
Coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.
College sports
College sports or college athletics encompasses non-professional, collegiate and university-level competitive sports and games.
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Collusion
Collusion is a deceitful agreement or secret cooperation between two or more parties to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading or defrauding others of their legal right.
Comparison of American and British English
The English language was introduced to the Americas by the arrival of the British, beginning in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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Competition law
Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.
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Convention (norm)
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
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Corked bat
In baseball, a corked bat is a specially modified baseball bat that has been filled with cork or other lighter, less dense substances to make the bat lighter.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Cronyism
Cronyism is a specific form of in-group favoritism, the spoils system practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages to friends or trusted colleagues, especially in politics and between politicians and supportive organizations.
Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver.
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Dice
Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona (30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager.
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Doping in sport
In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletic competitors, as a way of cheating. Cheating and doping in sport are sports law.
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Emery ball
An emery ball is an illegal pitch in baseball, in which the ball has been altered by scuffing it with a rough surface, such as an emery board or sandpaper.
The England national football team have represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872.
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Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.
Figure skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice.
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First-person shooter
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.
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Fog of war
The fog of war (Nebel des Krieges) is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations.
Fraud
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.
Freakonomics
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner.
Free-to-play
Free-to-play (F2P or FtP) video games are games that give players access to a significant portion of their content without paying or do not require paying to continue playing.
Gallup, Inc.
Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
Gambling
Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted.
Gaming the system
Gaming the system (also rigging, abusing, cheating, milking, playing, working, breaking the system, gaming, or bending the rules) can be defined as using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system to, instead, manipulate the system for a desired outcome.
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The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a position in association football.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Graphing calculator
A graphing calculator (also graphics calculator or graphic display calculator) is a handheld computer that is capable of plotting graphs, solving simultaneous equations, and performing other tasks with variables.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Imperial examination
The imperial examination was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.
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Industrial espionage
Industrial espionage, also known as economic espionage, corporate spying, or corporate espionage, is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.
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Infidelity
Infidelity (synonyms include non-consensual non-monogamy, cheating, straying, adultery, being unfaithful, two-timing, or having an affair) is a violation of a couple's emotional or sexual exclusivity that commonly results in feelings of anger, sexual jealousy, and rivalry.
Insider trading
Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company.
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International Skating Union
The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating.
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ISU Judging System
The ISU Judging System or the International Judging System (IJS), occasionally referred to as the Code of Points (COP) system, is the scoring system that has been used since 2004 to judge the figure skating disciplines of men's and ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dance, and synchronized skating.
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Jake LaMotta
Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta (July 10, 1922 – September 19, 2017) was an Italian-American professional boxer who was world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951.
Jerry Tarkanian
Jerry Esther Tarkanian (August 8, 1930 – February 11, 2015) was an American basketball coach.
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Jose Canseco
José Canseco Capas Jr. (born July 2, 1964) is a Cuban-American former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Ken Caminiti
Kenneth Gene Caminiti (April 21, 1963 – October 10, 2004) was an American professional baseball third baseman who spent 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Houston Astros (1987–1994, 1999–2000), San Diego Padres (1995–1998), Texas Rangers (2001) and Atlanta Braves (2001).
Kickback (bribery)
A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered.
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Konami Code
The Konami Code (コナミコマンド, Konami Komando, "Konami command"), also commonly referred to as the Contra Code and sometimes the 30 Lives Code, is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, as well as some non-Konami games.
Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrong (né Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist.
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Marcel Cerdan
Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan (22 July 1916 – 28 October 1949) was a French professional boxer and world middleweight champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa.
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.
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Match fixing
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law. Cheating and match fixing are sports law.
A metagame is a game about a game, or an approach to playing a game.
Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Ann Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969) is an American former figure skater.
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.
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Natural bodybuilding
Natural bodybuilding is a bodybuilding movement with various competitions that take place for bodybuilders who claim to abstain from performance-enhancing drugs.
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Nepotism
Nepotism is the act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field.
Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area.
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Odds
In probability theory, odds provide a measure of the probability of a particular outcome.
Pathfinding
Pathfinding or pathing is the search, by a computer application, for the shortest route between two points.
Peter Shilton
Peter Leslie Shilton (born 18 September 1949) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.
Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. Cheating and Plagiarism are Misconduct.
Professional bodybuilding
Professional bodybuilding or pro bodybuilding can refer to bodybuilding for an income and/or possessing qualifications such as an IFBB Pro, IFBB Elite Pro or Wabba International Pro Card.
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Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.
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Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Roulette
Roulette (named after the French word meaning "little wheel") is a casino game which was likely developed from the Italian game Biribi.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.
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Sales
Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period.
Security hacker
A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.
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Skepticism
Skepticism, also spelled scepticism in British English, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma.
Slot machine
A slot machine, fruit machine (British English), poker machine or pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.
Software bug
A software bug is a bug in computer software.
Spitball
A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of a foreign substance such as saliva or petroleum jelly.
Spygate (NFL)
The Spygate scandal was a National Football League (NFL) controversy during the 2007 season, in which it was discovered that the New England Patriots were videotaping opposing coaches' signals during games under head coach Bill Belichick.
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Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen Joseph Dubner (born August 26, 1963) is an American author, journalist, and podcast and radio host.
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Steroid
A steroid is an organic compound with four fused rings (designated A, B, C, and D) arranged in a specific molecular configuration.
Steven Levitt
Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Dubner).
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Stickum
Stickum is a trademark adhesive of Mueller Sports Medicine, of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, United States.
Strength training
Strength training, also known as weight training or resistance training, involves the performance of physical exercises that are designed to improve strength and endurance.
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Teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
The hand of God
"The hand of God" (La mano de Dios) was a goal scored by Argentine footballer Diego Maradona during the Argentina v England quarter finals match of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
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Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater, retired boxer, and reality television personality.
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Trade regulation
Trade regulation is a field of law, often bracketed with antitrust (as in the phrase “antitrust and trade regulation law”), including government regulation of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive business acts or practices.
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada.
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William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926.
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100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions.
1950s quiz show scandals
The 1950s quiz show scandals were a series of scandals involving the producers and contestants of several popular American television quiz shows.
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1986 FIFA World Cup
The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams.
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1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad and officially branded as Seoul 1988, were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
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2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal
At the 2002 Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City, allegations arose that the pairs' figure skating competition had been fixed.
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See also
Misconduct
- Academic dishonesty
- Attorney misconduct
- Cheating
- Conflict of interest
- Crime
- Duty to report misconduct
- Fouls and misconduct (association football)
- Judicial misconduct
- Juror misconduct
- Malfeasance in office
- Malpractice
- Medical ghostwriter
- Misconduct
- Plagiarism
- Police misconduct
- Prosecutorial misconduct
- Punishment
- Scandals
- Scientific misconduct
- Sexual misconduct
- Tardiness
- Unsportsmanlike conduct
- Whistleblowing
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating
Also known as Cheat, Cheated, Cheater, Cheats, Cozen, Diddler, Screen looking.
, Industrial espionage, Infidelity, Insider trading, International Skating Union, ISU Judging System, Jake LaMotta, Jerry Tarkanian, Jose Canseco, Ken Caminiti, Kickback (bribery), Konami Code, Lance Armstrong, Marcel Cerdan, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Match fixing, Metagame, Morality, Nancy Kerrigan, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Natural bodybuilding, Nepotism, Nevada, New England Patriots, Odds, Pathfinding, Peter Shilton, Pitcher, Pittsburgh Steelers, Plagiarism, Professional bodybuilding, Reader's Digest, Road bicycle racing, Role-playing game, Roulette, Rutgers University, Sales, Security hacker, Skepticism, Slot machine, Software bug, Spitball, Spygate (NFL), Stephen J. Dubner, Steroid, Steven Levitt, Stickum, Strength training, Teacher, Tennis, The hand of God, Tonya Harding, Trade regulation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William Morrow and Company, 100 metres, 1950s quiz show scandals, 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1988 Summer Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal.