ruck
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"We were just slightly off it around our physicality, first time tackles, speed around the ruck – the basics where you need to be at it at this level," said Adams.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
Dupont's 2025 Six Nations ended at the back of a ruck in the Aviva Stadium.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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
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
Two rucks later he is in trying to jackal for the ball as a full-back because he is annoyed he hasn't caught that kick.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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
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
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
At first, rucking lives up to this reputation: It sucks.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2023
He recently took up rucking because he gets “both strength and cardio training at the same time,” Moss said.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
To begin rucking, you need a backpack … and weight.
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
