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Last weekend, South Africa's powerful ground game had slowed England's ruck speed, pouring sludge in their attacking gears.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Dupont's 2025 Six Nations ended at the back of a ruck in the Aviva Stadium.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

In reaching into the ruck it was like Beirne had also reached into their soul, and in that act came a moment of clarity.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Dupont quickly made amends, spinning off the back of a ruck in midfield, stiff-arming hooker Tolu Latu onto his back and scooting through a huge gap to score.

From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025

It would be as if you pushed against the edge of a rug hoping to raise a ruck at the opposite end.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The 31-year-old has hit 1,247 defensive and attacking rucks during this period - a staggering 515 more than any of his team-mates.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

The share of rucks completed in less than three seconds has jumped 10%.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

Schoeman is as likely to speak about God and love as he is about rucks and scrums.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

King was one of three players in WXV1 to hit 20 or more defensive rucks, winning four turnovers in the process.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

If work's sure and steady theer, labour's paid at starvation prices; while here we'n rucks o' money coming in one quarter, and ne'er a farthing th' next.

From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Max Malins impressed with his first international tries while Ellie Genge carried, rucked and scrummaged tirelessly before powering over for England's third.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2023

She focused on her boots, the crisp prints of the ash she’d tracked onto the pale-blue carpet, and on his sock feet with the skinny hairless shins visible where his pajama pants had rucked up.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2022

If the ice is rucked up into jagged ridges, I can proceed with caution.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022

Three days later, when we caught up again in Manchester, Iowa, the bus was strewn with cups of cold coffee, the veneer was covered with dust and the shades were all rucked up.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2016

The only light comes through the Venetian blinds and leads in strips across the rucked covers, the comforter.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

In 2010, Jason went back to what he knew, building teams, by inviting others to join him in rucking challenges that mimicked special forces training.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The Jacksonville Beach, Fla.-based company also makes gear for rucking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Fancy rucking backpacks start at around $100, but you can achieve the same thing by just putting a few books or water bottles in whatever backpack you have.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

After a while, though, on one walk home or another, my brain dredges up some advice I saw in a YouTube video about the biomechanics of rucking, made by physiologist and trainer Mike Prevost.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2023

Let us give it in the words of history:—“It was without stiffening of any kind, and bagged out in front, rucking up to the front in a roll.”

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various