If you are a dedicated athlete, an amateur player, or a sport geek, than you surely are familiar with the sport language. And if you overlap your hobby and learning English, then you can be curious what do you call these sport terms in English. This would help to read the world sport news in the original without difficulty, communicate with your foreign peers, and understand English-speaking sports commentators. It is easy to remember the names of principal athletic disciplines in English. The most of the words adopted by the Russian language in their original phonetic form represent a linguistic calque. For example, football, basketball, volleyball, tennis. There are, however, certain linguistic features in the names of plays or areas that are specific to the spoken language of Brits, Canadians, Americans, Australians, and people of other English-speaking countries.