Offside
Encyclopedia
Sport
- Offside (sport)Offside (sport)Offside is a rule used by several different team sports regulating aspects of player positioning. It is particularly used in field sports with rules deriving from the various codes of football, such as association football, rugby and field hockey, as well as in ice hockey.Offside rules are...
, a rule in a number of field team sports designed to help ensure players move together as a team- Offside (association football)
- Offside (American football)
- Offside (rugby)Offside (rugby)In rugby football, the offside rule prohibits players from gaining an advantage from being too far forward. The specifics of the rule differ between the two major codes.-Rugby union:Offside rules in rugby union are complex...
- Offside (ice hockey)Offside (ice hockey)In ice hockey, the current play is offside if a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck itself enters the zone, either carried by a teammate or sent into the attacking zone by an attacking player. If a defending player carries, passes, or otherwise intentionally sends...
- Offside (field hockey)Offside (field hockey)There is currently no offside rule in field hockey. There were prior offside rules, rules that restricted the positioning of players from the attacking team in a way similar to the offside rule in soccer. The offside rules were changed as the rules of field hockey changed...
- Off side, From the point of view of a right-handed batsman facing the bowler, the right hand side of the cricket field (being to the bowler's left). With a left-handed batsman the off side is to the batter's left.
Media
- Offside (TV show)Offside (TV Show)Offside was a Scottish comedy football television show aired on BBC One Scotland and was presented by Scottish Football journalist Tam Cowan.The programme was axed in 2007, for unknown reasons.- Jonathan Watson :...
, a Scottish football programme - Offside (2006 Iranian film), an Iranian film released in 2006
- Offside (2006 Swedish film), a Swedish film released in 2006
- Offside (2009 film)Offside (2009 film)Offside is a 2009 Australian romantic comedy written and directed by Gian Carlo Petraccaro , and produced by Matthew Salleh at Urtext Film Productions.-Plot:...
, an Australian film released in 2009 - Offside (magazine)Offside (magazine)Offside is a Swedish football magazine. It is published six times a year but there are often an extra issue published in connection to larger events, such as the FIFA World Cup. It takes its name from the football law of the same name. The magazine was started in March 2000 and had an average...
, a Swedish football magazine - Offside (book), a Spanish novel (original title El delantero centro fue asesinado al atardecer) from Manuel Vázquez MontalbánManuel Vázquez MontalbánManuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humourist, critic, as well as a gastronome and a FC Barcelona supporter....
Other
- Off-side ruleOff-side ruleA computer programming language is said to adhere to the off-side rule if the scope of declarations in that language is expressed by their indentation. The term and the idea are attributed to Peter J. Landin, and the term can be seen as a pun on the offside law of football .- Definition :Peter J...
, an interpretation for indentation in some computer programming languages