broken field
Dodging through tacklers
In American football, a broken field is an open area of the playing field where defenders are scattered rather than organized in formation, creating opportunities for a ball carrier to weave through: He made a spectacular broken-field run for sixty yards.
The term extends to any situation requiring nimble navigation through obstacles: broken-field driving through rush-hour traffic.
- zigzagAngled back-and-forth path
- evadeEscape by cunning
- roughUneven in surface
- scrambleMix into disorder
- sidestepEvade by moving aside
dip · playmaking · elude · cut back · maneuver · bump · agility · line of scrimmage · unexpected · unpredictable · mismatch · evasion · break · nonlinear · rut · no man's land · cratered · backfield
broken fieldnorth-south
Along the meridian
straight-line · up the gut · smashmouth · ground and pound · bulldozing
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