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Explain an Olympic sport badly

213 replies

Mylobsterteapot · 27/07/2024 19:28

People, alone or with a second human, throw themselves off bouncy and non bouncy slab into water whilst making pretty shapes in the air.

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MikeRafone · 27/07/2024 21:08

The devil is in the detail with whoever is last

Topbird29 · 27/07/2024 21:09

You twirl around on a big mat with some pretty ribbons, occasionally doing a little jump or roly poly

GrandHighPoohbah · 27/07/2024 21:10

You do all the sports that posh people like, except maybe polo. Whoever is the best at overall posh sports is the winner.

Topbird29 · 27/07/2024 21:11

You.jump onto a tall bar and get stuck and dizzy trying to get down as there is another tall bar behind it that you spin around.

PingPongPiddlyPong · 27/07/2024 21:16

My 4 year old DS (at the time) used to love watching horsey dancing, arras and boinging.

(Dressage, archery and trampolining) 😂

BetterBee · 27/07/2024 21:17

You slam your friend on their back or do a bit of karma sutra in the floor while wearing pjs and a dressing gown.

Favouritefruits · 27/07/2024 21:18

Spinny throwing

BronwenFrideswide · 27/07/2024 21:19

Please someone wittier than me describe the pommel horse thing in gymnastics!

MeouwCat · 27/07/2024 21:19

You pretend that you are guiding a plane to its birth, whacking at any plastic balls[ that come your way. (I cant go on with this

L1ttledrummergirl · 27/07/2024 21:19

Throw your opponent on their back and keep them there.

Understand that the BBC will only show a brief part of your sport, and turn coverage to men hitting a ball with sticks so that the main channel shows people talking about sports while not showing them.

leeverarch · 27/07/2024 21:21

You stand on a big slippery slide. You slide down it and hurl yourself into the air at the bottom. People in bobble hats gasp and move out of your way.

titchy · 27/07/2024 21:21

Humans have two gaits. You have to go from A to B in the fastest possible time. But not using your fastest gait because, well, you'd get there quicker and that would be cheating.

HJ40 · 27/07/2024 21:24

Strap a plank to your feet and throw yourself down a snowy mountain from side to side, pretending you're an aeroplane doing loop the loops as you go.

ErrolTheDragon · 27/07/2024 21:25

You pretend to be a circus pony rider using a very unconvincing model with two metal handles instead of a saddle.

HJ40 · 27/07/2024 21:26

Strap two planks to your feet and trek through snow, intermittently taking pot shots with a shooty thing. Do this quicker than anyone else.

HJ40 · 27/07/2024 21:26

Strap two knife blades to your shoes and do ballet on frozen water.

ErrolTheDragon · 27/07/2024 21:27

This year I think you can pay around on a short plank on little wheels

Oganesson118 · 27/07/2024 21:28

You find a strange ironing board with some handles. You are overcome with the urge to grab the handles and fling yourself around in circles.

HalebiHabibti · 27/07/2024 21:29

Run very fast towards an obstacle and then fling yourself off it, but in a pretty way.

MrsMoastyToasty · 27/07/2024 21:29

Stand in a goal net in a field and see how far you can chuck metal dinner plates.
(Description by DH).

InMySpareTime · 27/07/2024 21:29

Ricochet off a massive clothes peg and leap over a chest of drawers.

InMySpareTime · 27/07/2024 21:31

Attempt to dislocate your arms by swinging off half a pergola.

Oganesson118 · 27/07/2024 21:32

Decide you fancy a game of waterpolo but you don't have a pool so you play it in a sports hall instead,

(suppose you could equally say you fancy a game of handball but unfortunately you are currently in a pool so you wang a ball around in there)

MeouwCat · 27/07/2024 21:32

Its winter and your car wont start, so you and 3 mates decide to give it downhill push start ....

Oganesson118 · 27/07/2024 21:33

You see @MeouwCat and her mates pushing their car and fancy doing the same but you have no car, or mates, so you make do with lying on a tea tray instead.