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n. (context sports English) The starting of a race before being signaled to do so.
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In sports, a false start is a movement by a participant before (or in some cases after) being signaled or otherwise permitted by the rules to start. Depending on the sport and the event, a false start can result in a penalty against the athlete's or team's field position, a warning that a subsequent false start will result in disqualification, or immediate disqualification of the athlete from further competition.
False starts are common in racing sports (such as swimming, track, sprinting, and motor sports), where differences are made by fractions of a second and where anxiety to get the best start plays a role in the athletes' behavior.
A race that is started cleanly, on the contrary, is referred to as a fair start or clean start.
False Start is the sixth album by the American rock band Love, released in December 1970.
False Start was a Power pop/ Rock band from Auckland, New Zealand that formed in the winter of 2005. They were signed to Deadboy Records/Universal.
A false start is a prohibited movement before play begins in sports.
False start may also refer to:
Usage examples of "false start".
He made many loops, paralleling and crossing his own tracks until the pattern was a confused mess with many false start tracks, ranging a couple of kilometers into the desert.
After the third false start, Brent hunkered down close to the ground.
After one false start, I launched into it, and carried it off fairly well, though I saw Starling flinch a time or two at a soured note.