Which sports are most associated with what expressions?

Welcome to our mini-course on sporting expressions for business and professional situations, as well as in challenging or competitive times in life. 

Firstly, look at the quiz and test your previous knowledge on some of our expressions. 

Remember to be careful as you read the options in the quiz. We have used a variety of expressions to refer to the three main areas of sport which we are presenting in this course. Moreover, we have given options from specific sports in some examples. 

Importantly, try to remember that sometimes, the vocabulary is used in sports which it is not primarily associated with. This is especially true of the phrasal verbs here as they refer to one group of sports but are used almost universally in various situations which include other sports in certain contexts. These specific phrasal verbs are used to put the competitors in order during a race, so they are phrasal verbs of direction or position and location. Therefore, they can be used to do this in other sports as well as in various life situations, including business and professional situations.

We will discuss the use of these expressions in other types of sport, and in business or life in general, in the tutorial in the next lesson.