wrist shot

English

Noun

wrist shot (plural wrist shots)

1. (ice hockey) A shot that involves using the arm muscles, predominantly the wrist, to propel the puck using the concave side of the blade.

   That wrist shot completely fooled the defenders.

2. (golf) A short stroke usually played with an iron, from the wrist, without swinging the club over the shoulder.

Translations

ice hockey: type of shot

• Finnish: rannelaukaus (fi)
• Swedish: handledsskott n

Further reading

• wrist shot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia