Glossary of Golf Croquet Terms
The terms set out below are listed alphabetically and are shown in italics when used in the Rules. A description given below may be subject to a more detailed definition given in the relevant rule.
Annulled If a stroke is annulled, it is treated as if it had not been played (see Rule 6.3.6).
Body References to touching or other contact with a player's body include touching or contact with any item worn or carried by the player, other than a mallet.
Boundary The inner edge of any boundary marking (see Rule 2.2.2).
Forestall play A player or referee forestalls play to fulfil their responsibility for the fair and correct application of these Rules by requesting that play is to stop. The request is to be made in a manner that can reasonably be expected to convey the request to those to whom it is addressed.
Hoop in order The hoop in order is the next hoop to be run which will result in a point being scored (see Rule 7.4.1).
Jammed ball A ball that is found to touch both uprights of a hoop simultaneously on some axis (see Rule 9.5).
Jaws The jaws of a hoop comprise the space enclosed by and including the inner surfaces of the uprights, the surface created by raising a straight edge touching both hoop uprights from the ground to the crown of the hoop on the playing side of the hoop and the equivalent surface on the non-playing side of the hoop (see Rule 7.1 and Diagram 2).
Loose impediment A small, removable object on the court surface. Examples include worm casts, leaves, nuts, twigs, refuse or similar material.
Match A contest between two sides, consisting of one or more games.
Offside ball A ball that may be subject to an offside direction.
Offside direction A direction by an offside opponent that an offside ball is to be next played from either penalty area as the offside opponent decides
Offside opponent The side opposing an offside owner.
Offside owner The side that owns an offside ball.
Outside agency An agency that may not lawfully affect play (see Rule 4.1).
Partner ball The ball of the striker's side that is not the striker's ball.
Penalty area A semi-circular area on the court, with a radius of one yard (see Rule 17.1.1).
Penalty area continuation A method of continuing a game (see Rule 17.2).
Previous stroke The stroke before the last stroke played.
Replaced Unless the relevant rule directs otherwise, a ball directed to be "replaced" is replaced in the position it occupied before it moved, whether as the result of a stroke or for another reason.
Start area Any position on the court within one yard of corner IV or within an adjacent area determined by the organising body.
Striker The owner of the striker's ball.
Striker's ball Normally, the ball that follows next in colour sequence after the ball played in the last stroke (but see Rules 1.2 and 6.3.4).
Striking period A period of time which starts when a player has taken a stance with apparent intent to play a stroke and ends when the player quits the stance
under control or, if sooner, when the turn ends (but see Rule 6.2.2).