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The O'Brien Trophy is a North American Ice Hockey trophy awarded annually to the losing team in the Stanley Cup play-off finals. It was donated in 1909 by Ambrose J. O'Brien.
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O-Shomen is a basic cut to the centre of the head in kendo.
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O-soto-gari is a major outer reaping throw used in judo.
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Oakland Athletics are an American professional baseball team. They joined the American League in 1968.
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The Oakland Raiders are an American professional football team.
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The Oakland Seals are an American Ice Hockey Club based at Oakland, California. They were formed in 1967 as one of six teams in the West Division of the National Hockey League of North America.
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The Oaks Stakes is an English horse race run over 2400 meters at Epsom by fillies. It was first run in 1779.
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Old Belvedere RFC is an Irish Rugby Union football club founded in 1930 by former pupils of the Jesuit College at Dublin.
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Old Maid is a card game for any number of players. A full deck of 52 cards is used from which the Queen of Hearts has been removed and the remainder dealt. Pairs are discarded and remaining cards are passed face down to the player to the left who picks one at random. Play continues until all cards have been played and one player is left holding the odd Queen (the Old Maid).
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The Olympic Games originated at Olympia, in Elis, Peloponnesus and were said to have been originated by Hercules in honour of the Olympian Zeus, and to have been revived by Iphitus in 776 BC. Thereafter they were held every 4 years without a break until 393. Today the Olympic Games are still held every 4 years and are a general sporting contest held between supposedly amateur athletes of all countries. In recent years the amateur status of many athletes from larger and more industrial countries has become very dubious casting a shadow over the spirit of the games.
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Ombre is a Spanish card game played with a deck of forty cards - the eight, nine and ten of each suit being rejected. The order of value of the cards is peculiar, and is different in the two colours. Nine cards are given to each of three players in parcels of three, the two black always being trumps.
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One and Thirty was a card game played in England in the 17th century. Each player is dealt a three- card hand. Face cards count 10 points and pip cards count face value. Players can draw further cards aiming to get as near 31 as possible without going over that total.
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One Hundred is a card game played with a normal deck of 52 cards for three to six players. If there are seven or more players two decks are used. Each player begins with three chips and the object of the game is to be the last player to have any chips left.
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The One Thousand Guineas Stakes is an English classic horse race for fillies only. It was founded in 1814 and is run over the straight Rowley Mile at Newmarket in the Spring.
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Orienteering is a sport akin to cross-country running, but staged in less open terrain in which runners compete in navigating routes between isolated control points set up at defined positions within the areas of competition.
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The Ottawa Rough Riders are a Canadian professional football team.
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Ottocento is a Tarot game for four players that comes from Bologna. Tarot games have been played in that city for over 500 years, and the game of
Ottocento as currently played preserves distinct characteristics (both of the games and of the pack of cards) which go back at least to the 16th century.
Ottocento is a point-trick game, with trumps. The cards have point values individually (as in other Tarot games) but also score in combinations. There is no bidding, but players can score by declaring card combinations held in their hands at the start of play, as well as for combinations taken in tricks. There are four players, two against two in fixed partnerships. Play is anticlockwise. The pack is known as the Tarocco Bolognese - the version of the Tarot pack that has been used at Bologna since the 16th century. This pack is produced and sold by the main Italian playing-card manufacturers. It is somewhat similar to other Italian- suited Tarot packs, but omits the two to the five of each plain suit, and has other peculiarities found only at Bologna.
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In cricket, an over means that the fielders are to go over to the other side. This is done when six balls have been delivered from one end (at the end of the 19th century it was five balls, and some time previous to that, four balls). The bowling is taken up at the opposite wicket.
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In rowing, the Oxford stroke is a long, deep, high-feathered-stroke excellent in heavy water.
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