# Sports euphemisms for sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 25, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462 "2010-06-25T07:44:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/1 "2010-06-25T07:44:30Z")
Inspired by the baseball euphemisms for sex thread, what expressions do you have in your countries or in other sports besides baseball? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/2 "2010-06-25T07:47:44Z")
If a man gets a woman pregnant, he might tell his buddies that he “slipped one past the goalie.” Not sure if this was originally inspired by hockey, soccer, or other. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/3 "2010-06-25T09:02:02Z")
There’s the term “score”, which may not mean a “homerun” in the baseball metaphor, as one can just score digits, kisses, a date, or sex acts other than PIV sex. And if you don’t mind another baseball one: There’s “designated hitter” for the guy who takes the less attractive girl so you can be with the more attractive one. Oh, and saying it’s “your serve” when trying your luck with a new woman, after a friend has “struck out” ala the baseball term. I don’t know why they mix the sports. Ooh. “Picking up a spare”: having sex with someone after getting rebuffed when getting close last time. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/4 "2010-06-25T14:30:17Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Ooh. “Picking up a spare”: having sex with someone after getting rebuffed when getting close last time. That’s a new one to me, but then again I have never run with a crowd of “players” anyway (at least, not openly playing). I like it. And it does open the mental door to the creative hijacking of other bowling terms like “7-10 split”, “blowing the rack”, “missing the head pin” and “sinking it in the pocket” as well. (I don’t even want to go to what it would mean to score a “crossover” or “Jersey” strike.) A friend of mine once used the (American) football term “scored a safety” in a suggestive way but I could not picture what he meant at the time, being only cursorily familiar with the game. As I understand it, a safety play is a general term for the various ways a team can score points without possession of the football. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/5 "2010-06-25T14:32:21Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > If a man gets a woman pregnant, he might tell his buddies that he “slipped one past the goalie.” Not sure if this was originally inspired by hockey, soccer, or other. There’s the similar “pulling the goalie”, indicating you’re stopping the use of birth control in an attempt to get pregnant. Presumably hockey, since I don’t think they ever pull the goalie in soccer. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/6 "2010-06-25T14:37:49Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > There’s the similar “pulling the goalie”, indicating you’re stopping the use of birth control in an attempt to get pregnant. Presumably hockey, … Hockeywise, I fear to think of what a “power play” scenario would be. Though a compare-and-contrast of what constitutes an “icing” penalty on either side of the Atlantic could be entertaining on a double entendre level. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/7 "2010-06-25T14:40:20Z")
Power plays and goalie pulls? That’s nothing. You should see me when I pull off a hat trick. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/8 "2010-06-25T14:50:20Z")
An icing penalty would be a pass that crosses more than one line, wouldn’t it? With the result that you’re pushed way back into your area. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/9 "2010-06-25T15:04:52Z")
Oh yeah, I forgot the hockey punches. The ladies love those. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/10 "2010-06-25T17:22:37Z")
Another ice hockey term you don’t want to think about as a sexual analogy: “ringing the pipe”, a shot on goal that deflects away hard off of the post/crossbar of the net. Ow. Ow. Ow. On the other hand, “pulling a Gretzky” to refer to reaching around from behind to score from behind the net really says it all right there. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/11 "2010-06-26T00:27:51Z")
Hey you Canadians/Hockey fans, we’re going to need some translation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/12 "2010-06-26T00:35:47Z")
Cricket, despite its staid reputation has the [following](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Johnston#Incidents_and_gaffes) > [@](#): > > The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey that has to count for something. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/13 "2010-06-26T00:42:47Z")
To keep the hockey theme going, what about “roughing?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/14 "2010-06-26T00:44:12Z")
My wife put me in the penalty box for trying to score in the wrong goal. ---
**Author:** ![Myself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myself)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/15 "2010-06-26T02:44:01Z")
Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/16 "2010-06-26T03:30:47Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > My wife put me in the penalty box for trying to score in the wrong goal. Unsportsmanlike conduct? ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/17 "2010-06-26T03:34:34Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Unsportsmanlike conduct? It was a major. I tried to appeal but it was overturned. I wasn’t allowed on the ice for like two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/18 "2010-06-26T03:50:23Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > That’s a new one to me, but then again I have never run with a crowd of “players” anyway (at least, not openly playing). I like it. And it does open the mental door to the creative hijacking of other bowling terms like “7-10 split”, “blowing the rack”, “missing the head pin” and “sinking it in the pocket” as well. (I don’t even want to go to what it would mean to score a “crossover” or “Jersey” strike.) I’m more concerned about the interpretation of “All 10 in the pit.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/19 "2010-06-26T08:24:18Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > That’s a new one to me, but then again I have never run with a crowd of “players” anyway (at least, not openly playing). I like it. And it does open the mental door to the creative hijacking of other bowling terms like “7-10 split”, “blowing the rack”, “missing the head pin” and “sinking it in the pocket” as well. (I don’t even want to go to what it would mean to score a “crossover” or “Jersey” strike.) I only read of it online. I used to frequent “players” forums. Some of them seemed to feature a contest for the most creative metaphors. Every PUA (pick up artist) had their own favorite lingo. I was one of those losers who knows a lot about the various theories, but has precious little practice. I still consider myself inexperienced, but I at least no longer think of myself as a loser. Well, most of the time, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462/20 "2010-06-26T08:39:47Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I only read of it online. I used to frequent “players” forums. Some of them seemed to feature a contest for the most creative metaphors. Every PUA (pick up artist) had their own favorite lingo. > > I was one of those losers who knows a lot about the various theories, but has precious little practice. I still consider myself inexperienced, but I at least no longer think of myself as a loser. Well, most of the time, anyways. So you’ve gone from AFC to rAFC? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sports-euphemisms-for-sex/544462.md?page=2)