fake injuries
Simulated physical harm
Fake injuries are feigned or exaggerated physical harm, typically to gain advantage in sports or legal claims.
Athletes fake injuries to draw fouls, waste time, or get opponents penalized: He went down clutching his ankle, but replays showed no contact.
In insurance fraud, fake injuries support bogus claims for compensation.
The term also covers minor hurts dramatized for sympathy or attention.
- playing possumFaking death defensively
- malingeringFabricating symptoms for gain
- milking itProlonging for advantage
- insuranceContractual risk coverage
- insurance fraudDeceptive claims for payouts
fraud · scam · soccer · foul play · diving · flop · lawsuit · compensation · whiplash · back pain · neck brace · crutches · bandages · exaggerating · sympathy · attention · slip and fall · disability
- sports cheatingmatch fixing, doping, point shaving, steroids, cheating