scorekeeping
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- noun
- /ˈskɔrˌkiːpɪŋ/
- Our instructor explained the scorekeeping methods used in gymnastics to ensure fair competition.
Examples
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This design was intended to reinforce golf scorekeeping procedures.
Academic text (1991) -
The first group shares one example from its list, and the word is recorded on the scorekeeping chart.
Academic text (2002) -
Arnie and the bowling team are in the scorekeeping area watching Jack make a mockery of the sport.
Fiction book (2000) -
In sports, the competition is more externalized, signified by scorekeeping and a winning and losing divide between the participants.
Academic text (2000) -
At the end of the allotted time, each group selects a name for itself related to the category, and someone records that on the board for scorekeeping.
Academic text (2002) -
Walter Day, the now-retired official scorekeeper of the video game industry and founder of the scorekeeping website Twin Galaxies, recently declared that
Blog text (3) -
While the content of Sport Education has a strong focus on tactics and skills, it also includes learning about and practicing other roles that are important to how the activity is pursued outside schools; that is, coaching, refereeing, scorekeeping, compiling statistics, managing teams, publicizing results, and the like.
Academic text (2007) -
During the basketball game, the coach emphasized the importance of scorekeeping to track each player's performance.
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Effective scorekeeping in tennis requires noting how many serves were faults compared to successful ones.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scorekeeping is simply score ('points' or 'tally') plus keeping ('recording' or 'looking after'), like using a scoreboard or a bookkeeper to write the result. So it means recording the points or results in a game to make sure everything is fair.