ruck
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Proceedings start in Jedburgh with the ribboned ball being thrown into a ruck of the two teams.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The visitors took a deserved lead when scrum-half Bracken collected from a ruck to glide past Cokansiga on his inside, dotting down for a try that Farrell slotted comfortably.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
White's opportunism at the side of the ruck was what did it, the scrum-half too quick, too sharp, too lethal for the French cover.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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
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
Those passages of play are coming quicker and quicker, with 62.8% of rucks completed in under three seconds in last year's competition, up 10% on the 2020 competition.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
They support the hooker in the scrum, provide power at rucks and mauls, lift jumpers in the line-out, and carry hard.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Schoeman is as likely to speak about God and love as he is about rucks and scrums.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
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
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
The answer: “We are the rucking company,” a grounding that recalled the company’s origin but also paved a path for growth.
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
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
Beyond rucking for recreation and fitness, there are also competitive rucking events throughout Washington.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 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
