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In horse racing, a race cloth is a cloth fitted with pockets to hold the prescribed weights which is then worn by a horse particpating in the race.
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Racing FC is an Argentine Association Football club of Bueonos Aires founded in 1905.
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In sport, a racket is a device, similar to a bat, comprising a handle ending in a round or oval frame across which a network of cord is tightly strung forming the striking surface, distinct from a bat which has a solid striking surface. Rackets are used in games such as tennis, badmington and squash.
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Rackets (Racquets) is a racket-and-ball game played between two or four players in a court enclosed by four walls.
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The Rahim Jivraj Cup is a hockey trophy competed for by East African countries, and sometimes open to other African countries.
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Randori is a form of judo training in which competitors seek to throw each other without the tension of contests. It is done continuously with a variety of partners of different weights and sizes and is extremely tiring.
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The Ranfurly Shield is a trophy presented in 1902 by the Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, for competition between the Rugby Union provincial teams of New Zealand. The competition is run on a challenge basis, the holders retaining the shield until beaten and allowed to choose whom they accept as challengers.
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Rangers FC are a Scottish Association Football club of Glasgow formed in 1873. They were members of the English FA from 1885 to 1887. In 1890 they were founder members of the Scottish League and have been in the top division ever since.
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The Ranji Trophy is a trophy awarded to the national champions of Indian cricket. It was instituted in 1934 in memory of Ranjitsinhji and has been contested annually ever since without interruption.
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Rapid SK are an Austrian Association Football club of Vienna. They were formed in 1898 and first won the Austrian championship in 1912.
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Real Madrid is the name of both a basketball yram and an Association Football club in Spain. The
Real Madrid football club was formed in 1898 and was a founder member of the Spanish League in 1928, which it won in 1932.
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Real Tennis (Royal Tennis, Court Tennis) is the original form of tennis from which lawn tennis developed. It is a racket-and-ball game played in an indoor court with similarities to rackets.
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Red Dog was originally a banking game in which punters bet on whether any card in their hand would be the same suit as and higher than a card to be dealt from the pack.
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The Redbacks are a Netball team at the University of Canberra.
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Reims FC is a French Association Football club formed in 1931. The club turned professional in 1935 after winning the amateur club championship of France, and was elected to the Second Division of the French League. After the Second World War Reims were promoted to the First Division.
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In card games to renege is the allowable play of failing to follow suit when one does not have to follow suit.
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In fencing, a repartee is a smart return blow.
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A retiarius was a Roman gladiator armed with a trident, net and dagger and with an armoured defense for the left shoulder and leather armoured left sleeve.
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In cricket the return crease is a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler.
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In card games to revoke is the foul play of failing to follow suit when one does have to follow suit.
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Richmond FC is a Rugby Union football club formed in 1861. It was one of the teams founding the Rugby Union in 1871.
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Ring Tennis (Tenikoit) is a combination of tennis and quoits that also closely resembles deck tennis. It can be played by two or four players either singles or doubles in a much smaller area than lawn tennis.
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River Plate are an Argentine Association Football club of Buenos Aires formed in 1901.
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Road Bowling is a game in which two players bowl a metal ball along an ordinary road, the winner being the one who reaches a set distance in the least throws. The ball is made of iron and weighs 790 grams.
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Rodeo is a competitive exhibition of the riding and other skills of individual cowboys. There are six principle events at all rodeos: saddle bronc-riding, bareback bronc-riding, bull-riding, calf- roping, team roping and steer-wrestling.
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Rodeo clowns are attendants at a rodeo whose job it is to rescue unseated riders before they are killed by a bucking bull. They work in pairs, one distracting the bull with a barrel while the other helps the unseated cowboy out of the ring.
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Roller Hockey is a team game similar to ice hockey but played on roller- skates. The stick players use is flat on both sides, and either side may be used to strike the ball. Teams consist of five players, and a game is played of two 15 minute periods each way (20 minutes in international matches).
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Rook is the name of a group of games and of the special deck of cards for the game which was introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906. The games are popular in Eastern Kentucky, in the Mennonite communities of Southern Ontario (near Elmira / Waterloo), Manitoba, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and probably also in other parts of North America. The Rook deck contains 57 cards. There are four suits coloured black, red, green and yellow. In each suit the cards are numbered from 1 to 14. The 57th card is the rook card, which carries a picture of the bird. It is likely that Rook cards were introduced for the benefit of members of fundamentalist protestant religions, such as the Mennonites, who considered (and in some cases still consider) playing cards to be the 'devil's tool'. They were forbidden to play cards; but Parker Brothers filled the void with a game that was played like cards but did not use the standard playing card deck. There are people who refuse to play any cards with a standard deck but who will happily play Rook all night every weekend. There is a close parallel here with Kvitlech cards, which were playing cards bearing numbers, made for use by Central European Jews who were also forbidden by their religion to use standard cards. The deck normally comes with a booklet describing a number games which can be played with the cards. The main group of games are point trick games with trumps and bidding. The cards in each suit rank from 14 (high) to 1 (low) and the counting cards are generally the 14 and 10 of each suit (worth 10 points each) and the 5 (worth 5 points). The Rook card, when used, is worth 20, and is generally an extra trump. In some games the 1 is promoted to rank above the 14 and is worth 15 points.
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Roque is a form of croquet played in the USA and generally considered to be a more scientific version than the original. The object is to strike balls through iron hoops using a mallet, before hitting the two posts at each end of the court. Along the way it is desirable to try and knock your opponent's balls out of the way.
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Rouge et noir (red and black) also known as Trente et Quarante (thirty and forty) is a gambling game played with cards. The game is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth, having at either end two large diamonds coloured red and black respectively and a triangular space called inverse. In the centre are two divisions known as couleur.
Six decks of cards are shuffled together, from which the dealer takes a convenient quantity in his hand each time a coup is dealt. Court cards count ten, and the ten down to ace bear their face value. The dealer first deals for noir (black) until the pips on the cards faced in a line number 31 or not more than 40; and then does the same for rouge (red), the winning row being that containing pips totalling the nearest to 31. Should the pips number exactly the same (between 32 and 40) in both noir and rouge, the deal is void. In the event of both rows totalling exactly 31 each, half the stakes go to the bank, or the players have the option of leaving their entire stakes down for the next deal, the successful ones receiving their stakes back, but without any profit. In the case of the losers the bank takes all. This is called the refait, and acts in favour of the bank in the same manner as zero does in roulette.
Players who stake on couleur wager that the winning colour will be the same as the first card turned; those backing inverse, that it will be the opposite. Stakes placed on the red or black diamond denote the backing of that particular colour to win. The dealer holds the bank, and the other players are termed punters.
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The Round the Island Race is an annual yacht race held in June, and taking place around the Isle of Wight. The Round the Island Race operates a handicap system (most boats being measured and allocated a time allowance based upon their size), enabling different classes of boats to compete against each other, thereby enabling an individual boat to win its own class and despite finishing in a slower time than a boat from a faster time, achieving a higher position than the faster boat through the handicap system.
The Round the Island Race has been organised since 1931 by the Island Sailing Club - the first race involved 25 boats, the 2009 race over 1500 boats. The race starts at West Cowes, the boats racing westwards (anti-clockwise) around the Isle of Wight, keeping as close inshore as they dare, before crossing the finishing line at East Cowes about 55 nautical miles and some hours later, the winning crew receiving the Gold Roman Bowl prize.
The classes of boats include: IRC rated boats, Non-IRC rated monohull boats (racing under ISC Rating System), Classic Racing Yachts (racing under ISC Rating System), Sportsboat Rule, Original and Modern Gaffers, Multihulls (Grand Prix and MOCRA Racing Classes), and Bridgedeck Catamaran Cruisers.
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Rounders is a game played by two teams, with a semicircular ''home'' and three ''posts'' equidistant from each other and from the home. The object of the striker after hitting the ball is to run round the whole or part of the course. He is out if a fielder catches the ball or if he is struck by the ball when running between the posts. The American game of baseball derived from rounders.
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In card games a rubber is a set of games.
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In card games a ruff is a card of the suit of trumps. In card games to ruff is to play a card of the suit of trumps when the led card was not of the suit of trumps - to trump.
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Ruff and Honours was an ancestor of Whist, played in England in the 17th century.
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Rufmariasch is a card game related to the Czech and Slovak Marias and the Hungarian Ulti, played by the Donauschwaben - the German settlers on the banks of the Danube - in 18th and 19th century Hungary.
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Rugby Fives is a hand-ball game played with gloved hands in a court enclosed by four walls between either two or four players playing singles or doubles respectively. The court is 8.5 meters long and 5.5 meters wide and the playing area of the front wall is 4.6 meters and sloping down the side walls to 1.8 meters at the back wall.
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Rugby Football started at Rugby school and was established all over Britain by 1870. Originally there was no limit to the number of players on each side, in 1877 the rule of 15 a side was adopted, and the practice of deliberate hacking was abolished.
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Rugby League Football is a 13-a-side game of running, passing from hand to hand and kicking an oval ball. It derived from Rugby Union. Points are scored by touching the ball down behind the opponent' s goal line for a try (3 points) and by kicking the ball between the uprights of the goal post above the crossbar for a goal (2 points).
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Rugby Union Football is a 15-a-side ball game played with an oval leather ball which may be handled as well as kicked. Points are scored by touching the ball down behind the opponent's goal line (a try) and by kicking the ball between the uprights of the goal above the cross bar (a goal).
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Preference is one of the most widespread card games among serious card players in Russia. There are four main varieties: Sochi Preference, Leningrad Preference, Classic Preference and Rostov (or Moscow) Preference, and many smaller variations within these.
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The Ryder Cup is an international golf tournament played in alternate years between teams of professional male golfers of the USA and Great Britain and Ireland.
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