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What (who) is rugby tackle - definition

DEFENSIVE MOVE IN VARIOUS FORMS OF FOOTBALL

Tackle (association football); Tackle for loss; Tackles for loss; Rugby tackle; Tackle (Australian rules football); Tackle (Gridiron football move); Tackle (footy)

rugby tackle

(rugby tackles, rugby tackling, rugby tackled)

1.

A rugby tackle is a way of making someone fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.

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2.

To rugby tackle someone means to make them fall over by throwing your arms around their legs or hips.

He rugby tackled her and stole her bag...

He was rugby tackled by a policeman after breaking through police lines.

VERB: V n, be V-ed

Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle. The primary purposes of tackling are to dispossess an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tackle_(football_move)

Tackle (gridiron football position)

PLAYING POSITION IN AMERICAN AND CANADIAN FOOTBALL

Offensive tackle; Tackle (American football position); Offensive Tackle; Tackle (position); Left tackle; Right tackle; Offensive tackle (American football); Left Tackle; Tackle (American football); Tackle (gridiron football); Tackle (Canadian football); Tackle (American and Canadian football); Tackle (Gridiron football); Tackle (Gridiron football position); Tackle (American and Canadian football position); Offensive tackles coach; Right Tackle; Offensive tackle (gridiron football)

Tackle is a playing position in gridiron football. Historically, in the one-platoon system prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a tackle played on both offense and defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tackle_(gridiron_football_position)

Wikipedia

Tackle (football move)

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle. The primary purposes of tackling are to dispossess an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.

The word is used in some contact variations of football to describe the act of physically holding or wrestling a player to the ground. In others, it simply describes one or more methods of contesting for possession of the ball. It can therefore be used as both a defensive or attacking move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tackle (football move)

Examples of use of rugby tackle

1. People were trying to drop him, to rugby tackle him.

2. A rugby tackle or a single blow would probably be reasonable.

3. England lost to Germany 4–2 at football in a reversal of 1'66 World Cup fortunes – and despite a valiant, if highly illegal, rugby tackle by Tory MP Boris Johnson.

4. Helicopter pilot Dave Guiney saved son Peter‘s life following rugby accident The teenager had ruptured his spleen in a rugby tackle and would have died if his father had not got him to hospital for surgery so quickly.

5. Back on: Jade Goody with her on/off boyfriend Jack Tweedy But as the pounds began to drop off, she found her stride and even won a certificate for "best rugby tackle" after dumping a burly male instructor in the mud.