Zone Defense: A defense in which players who are in pass coverage cover zones of the field, instead of individual players. Pure zone packages are seldom used; most defenses employ some combination of zone and man coverage.

 

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Zone Defense: A defense in which players who are in pass coverage cover zones of the field, instead of individual players. Pure zone packages are seldom used; most defenses employ some combination of zone . . . View Full Definition

Illegal Defense: A rather nebulous rule that is called irregularly. It's designed to prevent the use of the zone defense; it¹s more like a 3-second violation for the defense, in which no defender can stay in . . . View Full Definition

Soil Moisture Zone: Depth of soil from which plant roots extract water.

Special Studies Zone: A specific area where an investigation is taking place regarding seismic or geologic considerations.

Side Zone: The area between a hash mark and a sideline

Split The Defense: To skate between two defenders into or within the attacking zone.

Stay-At-Home Defense Man: A defense man who plays very defensively. He doesn't rush the puck very often.

Surf Zone: An area of breaking waves bounded by the point of first breakers, then landward to the maximum uprush of waves on the beach.

Sunlight Zone: See Photic Zone.

Subduction Zone: An area at a convergent plate boundary where an oceanic plate is being forced down into the mantle beneath another plate. These can be identified by a zone of progressively deeper earthquakes.