free kick

See also: freekick

English

Noun

free kick (plural free kicks)

1. (American football, soccer, Australian rules football, rugby, other ballgames) a kick in which a player may kick the ball without interference from the opposition. Such a kick may be awarded for a foul by the opposition, or earned by a player such as by taking a mark.
2. (Gaelic football) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.

Derived terms

• direct free kick
• indirect free kick

Translations

kick played without interference of opposition

• Albanian: goditje e lirë
• Arabic: رَكْلَة حُرَّة‎ f (rakla(t) ḥurra)
• Armenian: ազատ հարված (hy) (azat harvac) (indirect free kick), տուգանային հարված (tuganayin harvac) (direct free kick)
• Azerbaijani: cərimə zərbəsi
• Catalan: xut franc (ca) m, xut lliure (ca) m
• Czech: přímý kop m
• Danish: frispark n
• Dutch: vrije trap m, vrije schop m, vrijschop (nl) m
• Finnish: vapaapotku (fi)
• French: coup franc (fr) m
• German: Freistoß (de) m
• Hungarian: szabadrúgás (hu)
• Icelandic: aukaspyrna (is) f
• Irish: saorchic m, cic saor m

• Italian: calcio di punizione
• Latvian: brīvsitiens m
• Macedonian: слободен удар m (sloboden udar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frispark n

  Nynorsk: frispark n

• Polish: rzut wolny m
• Portuguese: tiro livre m, cobrança (pt) f, cobrança de falta f
• Russian: свобо́дный уда́р (svobódnyj udár) (indirect free kick), штрафно́й уда́р (ru) (štrafnój udár) (direct free kick)
• Swedish: frispark (sv) c
• Tagalog: malayang pagsipa
• Turkish: serbest vuruş (tr), frikik (tr)

Gaelic football

• Irish: saorchic m, cic saor m