A juke is a move in most forms of
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
used to evade a
tackler by deception, and thus without need of a
stiff arm. It can also be called sidestepping.
A typical juke involves a ball-carrier faking as if he will run one way, then planting his foot and running the opposite.
When this is done against the flow of play, it is called a
cutback
Cutback or Cutbacks may refer to:
* Cutback technique, a destructive technique for determining certain optical fiber transmission characteristics
* Cutback (surfing move)
* Cutback (roller coaster), a roller coaster inversion similar to a corkscre ...
.
Spin move
One variation on the common juke is a spin move.
See also
*
Juking
References
{{Gridiron football maneuvers
American football terminology