ruck
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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
Proceedings start in Jedburgh with the ribboned ball being thrown into a ruck of the two teams.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Dupont's 2025 Six Nations ended at the back of a ruck in the Aviva Stadium.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Massive numbers in ruck hits, ball carries and tackles.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
A snatch of turfy drumming, then I went flying over a ruck and the ground booted the air out of me and I got a glimpse of a leaping dog's flank.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
Schoeman is as likely to speak about God and love as he is about rucks and scrums.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
Zander Fagerson hit 32.5 rucks per 80 minutes on average this autumn.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024
Normally they will get into double-figure numbers of rucks, going through it at speed and then diving in at the corner.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
First, there's the entrance, narrow, and so small, The hat-stand seems to fill the tiny hall; That staircase, too, has such an awkward bend, The carpet rucks, and rises up on end!
From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Inchfawn, Fay
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
At first, rucking lives up to this reputation: It sucks.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2023
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
It holds rucking meetups every Wednesday in West Seattle at the Thistle Street stairs, near Lincoln Park; club members walk up and down the stairs in their packs for 45 minutes.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
And Washingtonians who advocate for rucking as a fitness regimen say there is a social aspect that makes the niche sport special.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
He pushed his right foot slowly backwards and forwards on Rupert's back, rucking up the dog's loose skin in heavy folds.
From Flames by Hichens, Robert Smythe
