{"id":1569,"date":"2023-11-10T13:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/uncategorized\/15-french-words-about-sports\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:07:03","slug":"15-french-words-about-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/vocabulary\/15-french-words-about-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"15 French words about sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Arbitre<\/strong>: Person who ensures that the rules are respected in a sports match.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ballon<\/strong>: Spherical object used in many sports such as soccer and basketball.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>: A sporting event consisting of moving quickly over a set distance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>D\u00e9fense<\/strong>: Action of protecting one&#8217;s goal or area against the opponent in team sports.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Entra\u00eeneur<\/strong>: Person responsible for training and directing a team or athlete.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gardien<\/strong>: Specific player in certain sports, responsible for protecting the goal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Halt\u00e9rophilie<\/strong>: The sport of lifting weights.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Karat\u00e9<\/strong>: Martial art of Japanese origin based on kicking and punching.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lutte<\/strong>: Combat sport in which the aim is to control your opponent with holds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marathon<\/strong>: Long-distance foot race, precisely 42.195 kilometers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Natation<\/strong>: The sport of swimming in water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Omnium<\/strong>: Track cycling competition consisting of several different events.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Quille<\/strong>: An object used in bowling, a sport in which the aim is to knock down pins with a ball.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Relais<\/strong>: A sporting event in which several athletes compete in succession, each covering a fraction of the total distance.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tribune<\/strong>: Spectator area in a stadium or sports arena.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"french words on sports","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professeursdefrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}