slide tackle

See also: slide-tackle

English

Noun

slide tackle (plural slide tackles)

1. (soccer) a tackle to get the ball by sliding on the ground feet-first
   • 2002 February 27, “Cruncher Karembeu takes it out on his wife”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Christian Karembeu almost broke his supermodel wife's leg with a slide tackle during a football game in their back garden.

Synonyms

• sliding tackle

Translations

soccer tackle

• Bulgarian: шпагат (bg) m (špagat)
• Finnish: liukutaklaus
• German: Grätsche (de) f
• Polish: wślizg (pl) m
• Portuguese: carrinho (pt) m
• Spanish: entrada (es) f, barrida (es) f
• Swedish: glidtackling (sv) c

Further reading

• sliding tackle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia