Referee, the Glossary
A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection.[1]
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64 relations: Amateur wrestling, American football, Arbiter (chess), Assistant referee (association football), Association football, Bandy, Bandy Playing Rules, Baseball, Book of Judges, Bow tie, British Army, Business Design Centre, Canadian football, Captain (sports), College basketball, Collegiate wrestling, Commissaire (cycling), Construct state, Cricket, Cue sports, Dohyō, Ejection (sports), FIBA, Floorball, Gaelic football, Gyōji, Handball, Hawk-Eye, Hebrew Bible judges, Ice hockey, International Olympic Committee, International Practical Shooting Confederation, International Range Officers Association, International Sumo Federation, Islington, Japan Sumo Association, Judge (sumo), Kimono, Korfball, Mixed martial arts, National Basketball Association, National Football League, Overtime (sports), Practical shooting, Professional wrestling, Referee (association football), Regulation of sport, Role-playing game, Roller derby, Royal Tournament, ... Expand index (14 more) »
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Amateur wrestling
Amateur wrestling is a variant of wrestling practiced at Olympic, collegiate, scholastic, and other levels.
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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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Arbiter (chess)
In chess tournaments, an arbiter is an official who oversees matches and ensures that the rules of chess are followed.
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In association football, an assistant referee (previously known as a linesman) is an official who assists the referee in administering the Laws of the Game during a match.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
Bandy Playing Rules
Bandy Playing Rules is the name of the rule book for bandy, edited by the Federation of International Bandy.
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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.
Book of Judges
The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim; Κριτές; Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Bow tie
The bow tie or dicky bow is a type of necktie.
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
Business Design Centre
The Business Design Centre is a Grade II listed building located between Upper Street and Liverpool Road in the district of Islington in London, England.
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Canadian football, or simply football (in Canada), is a sport in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete on a field long and wide, attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's end zone.
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Captain (sports)
In team sport, captain is a title given to a member of the team. Referee and captain (sports) are Terminology used in multiple sports.
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College basketball
College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.
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Collegiate wrestling
Collegiate wrestling, commonly referred to as folkstyle wrestling, is the form of wrestling practiced at the post-secondary level in the United States.
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Commissaire (cycling)
In competitive cycling, a commissaire is an official approximately equivalent to an umpire or referee in other sports.
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Construct state
In Afro-Asiatic languages, the first noun in a genitive phrase that consists of a possessed noun followed by a possessor noun often takes on a special morphological form, which is termed the construct state (Latin status constructus).
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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.
Cue sports
Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
Dohyō
A dohyō (土俵) is the space in which a sumo wrestling bout occurs.
Ejection (sports)
In sports, an ejection (also known as dismissal, sending-off, disqualification, or early shower) is the removal of a participant from a contest due to a violation of the sport's rules. Referee and ejection (sports) are Terminology used in multiple sports.
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FIBA
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA; French: Fédération Internationale de Basketball) is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide.
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Floorball
Floorball (also known by other names) is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team.
Gaelic football (Peil Ghaelach; short name Peil), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or football, is an Irish team sport.
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Gyōji
A is a referee employed by the Japan Sumo Association, responsible for a variety of activities which concern the organisation of the sport in general and the refereeing of matches, as well as the preservation of professional sumo culture, deeply rooted in Shinto traditions. Referee and Gyōji are referees and umpires.
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team.
Hawk-Eye
Hawk-Eye is a computer vision system used in numerous sports such as cricket, tennis, Gaelic football, badminton, hurling, rugby union, association football and volleyball, to visually track the trajectory of the ball and display a profile of its statistically most likely path as a moving image.
Hebrew Bible judges
The judges (sing. šop̄ēṭ, pl. שופטים) whose stories are recounted in the Hebrew Bible, primarily in the Book of Judges, were individuals who served as military leaders of the tribes of Israel in times of crisis, in the period before the monarchy was established.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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International Practical Shooting Confederation
The International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) is the world's largest shooting sport association, and the largest and oldest within practical shooting.
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International Range Officers Association
The International Range Officers Association (IROA) is a part of International Practical Shooting Confederation with the responsibility to train and certify their own dedicated range officials (referees), who are responsible for conducting matches safely, fair and according to the rules.
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International Sumo Federation
The International Sumo Federation (IFS) is the largest international governing body of sport Sumo with over 87 member countries.
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Islington
Islington is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.
Japan Sumo Association
The, sometimes abbreviated JSA or NSK, is the body that operates and controls professional sumo wrestling (called ōzumō, 大相撲) in Japan under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
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Judge (sumo)
or Shinpan are the ring-side judges of a professional sumo bout.
Kimono
The is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan.
Korfball
Korfball (korfbal) is a ball sport, with similarities to netball and basketball.
Mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
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Overtime (sports)
Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. Referee and Overtime (sports) are Terminology used in multiple sports.
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Practical shooting
Practical shooting, also known as dynamic shooting or action shooting, is a set of shooting sports in which the competitors try to unite the three principles of precision, power, and speed, by using a firearm of a certain minimum power factor to score as many points as possible during the shortest time (or sometimes within a set maximum time).
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Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.
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In association football, the referee is the person responsible for interpreting and enforcing the Laws of the Game during a match.
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Regulation of sport
The regulation of sport is usually done by a sport governing body for each sport, resulting in a core of relatively invariant, agreed rules.
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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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Roller derby
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters.
Royal Tournament
The Royal Tournament was the world's largest military tattoo and pageant, held by the British Armed Forces annually between 1880 and 1999.
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Snooker
Snooker (pronounced) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.
Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, and with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors. Referee and Sportsmanship are Terminology used in multiple sports.
Submission (combat sports)
A submission, also called a "tap out" is a combat sports term for yielding to the opponent, resulting in an immediate defeat.
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Sumo
is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
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Timekeeper
A timekeeper is a person that measures the passage of time.
Touch judge
A touch judge is an official who monitors the touch-line in a game of rugby union or rugby league and raises a flag if the ball (or player carrying it) goes into touch.
Umpire
An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. Referee and umpire are referees and umpires and Terminology used in multiple sports.
Underwater hockey
Underwater hockey (UWH), also known as Octopush in the United Kingdom, is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal by propelling it with a hockey stick (or pusher).
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Video assistant referee
The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who assists the referee by reviewing decisions using video footage and providing advice to the referee based on those reviews.
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Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.
World Rugby
World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union.
XFL (2020–2023)
The XFL was a professional American football minor league consisting of eight teams located across the United States in mid-sized to major markets.
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2017 World Games
The 2017 World Games (Igrzyska Światowe 2017), commonly known as Wrocław 2017 was the tenth World Games, a major international multi-sport event, meant for sports, or disciplines or events within a sport, that were not contested in the Olympic Games, held from 20 to 30 July 2017 in Wrocław, Poland.
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See also
Referees and umpires
- Australian rules football umpires
- Facundo Tello
- Gerry Armstrong (tennis official)
- Gyōji
- Referee
- Tennis umpires
- Umpire
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referee
Also known as Assistant referee, Athletics official, Athletics technical official, Football official, Numpire, Official (sports), Referee (football), Referees, Self-refereeing, Sports official, Umpire (football).
, Snooker, Sport, Sportsmanship, Submission (combat sports), Sumo, Timekeeper, Touch judge, Umpire, Underwater hockey, Video assistant referee, Volleyball, World Rugby, XFL (2020–2023), 2017 World Games.