shoulder tackle
Ramming with torso
A shoulder tackle is a forceful move where you drive your shoulder into someone to knock them down or push them aside.
In American football and rugby, it's a fundamental defensive technique—lowering your body and leading with the shoulder to bring down a ball carrier.
The term also describes rougher, less regulated contact: He shoulder tackled the intruder to the ground.
- hitSuccessful contact or strike
- big hitWildly popular success
- footballField sport with goals
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- impactForceful contact or consequence
charge · slam · takedown · wrap up · body · force · lower the boom · pad · helmet · gridiron · goal line · defensive · defensive end · offensive · running back · ram · shove · thrust
- football tacklessack, stuff, wrap up, bring down, takedown
- tackleshorse collar
striking technique type
shoulder tacklepunch
Strike with fist
kick · headbutt · elbow strike · knee strike · jab
shoulder, tackle, shoulders, shouldered, shouldering, tackles, tackled, tackling, tackler