Which sports use the oddest terms to describe the play?

For example:

If you chalk your tip, what are you doing?
In which sport can a player nutmeg another player?

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M

In cricket there is a 'sticky wicket' and something called 'Catch a crab' in rowing..

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Thevy29 "[Batting on a] sticky wicket" of course has become a colloquialism in speech far from sports-grounds; meaning to continue with something risking one's downfall in usually a social or political way.

I think "catching a crab" means to immerse the oar too deeply, with the result the rower can be pushed off-balance and even possibly off the thwart (the seat).