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Sports Celebrations Thesaurus (in formative stage)

Website is “A wiki for the development of a thesaurus of terms describing celebratory gestures in sports, from the high-five to the butt slap, and all points in between.”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
glos
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
0
Scope and Usage
Purpose: 

“Athletes are becoming more inventive all the time in how they celebrate scores or wins or good plays. With each new twist on, for example, the touchdown dance in football, the vocabulary of celebratory sports gestures expands. A thesaurus will help sports journalists communicate what they mean when they're describing a celebratory gesture to their audience, to each other, and to athletes. Put another way, the thesaurus is tool that sports journalists would use to access terminology that their audience will understand, something that is challenging in this quickly evolving area with much slang and improvisation.”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
alph
Relationship types: 
eq_syn_ri
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
The University of British Columbia – School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS)
Provider URL: