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Definition of Corner kick
1. Noun. A free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.
Definition of Corner kick
1. Noun. (soccer): A kick awarded to the attacking team when the ball leaves the field of play by wholly crossing the goal line without a goal having been scored, having last touched a player from the defending team. For the kick, the ball is placed within the corner arc closest to where the ball went out of play. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corner Kick
Literary usage of Corner kick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Athletic Games for Players, Instructors, and Spectators by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft, William Dean Pulvermacher (1916)
"corner kick AREA. — At each corner should be marked the quadrant of a circle
having a radius of one yard, thus extending one yard on the goal line and side ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"It is usual for the wing half-back upon whose side it is to take the corner-kick.
The ball must be placed a yard from the corner-flag. ..."
3. Games & Dances: A Selected Collection of Games, Song-games and Dances by William Albin Stecher (1912)
"A corner kick is taken from the corner flag nearest which the ball was put out.
A goal cannot directly be scored from a corner kick. ..."
4. Football: The Association Game by Charles William Alcock (1906)
"A player is not out of play in the case of a corner- kick, or when the ball is
kicked off from goal, or when it has been last played by an opponent. 8. ..."
5. Athletics and Football by Montague Shearman (1887)
"... gives a 'corner-kick' to the enemy. But whenever he can he should fling out
well to the side, and then the goal may be relieved once and for all. ..."
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