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 Translation for 'penalty box' from English to Czech
NOUN   a penalty box | penalty boxes
sport
penalty box {noun} [in soccer]
vápno {n}
Partial Matches
penalty {noun}trest {m}
právo
death penalty {noun}
trest {m} smrti
sport
penalty area {noun}
pokutové území {n}
unverified to box {verb}dát [dok.] do krabice
unverified to box {verb}zabalit [dok.]
unverified to box {verb}zabalovat [nedok.]
letter-box {noun}schránka {f} na dopisy
phone box {noun} [Br.]telefonní budka {f}
box {noun} [matchbox, of crackers etc.]krabička {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Up to two players per side may serve in the penalty box without substitutions being permitted, giving a team up to a possible 5-on-3 power play.
  • They took to calling the Blue Box the "penalty box".
  • The penalty area or 18-yard box (also known less formally as the penalty box or simply box) is an area of an association football pitch.
  • Line depth is also likely to be less when the ball is near the defending team's penalty box, compared to further up the pitch.
  • Renowned for his ability to operate in the confined space of the penalty box, Romário scored 165 goals in 167 games in five seasons at PSV.

  • When a team is given a penalty for committing an infraction (such as tripping another player), the offending player must sit in the penalty box, and his team must play with one fewer player on the ice.
  • Lothar Matthäus ran 40 yards into the Spanish penalty box before back-heeling the ball for the oncoming Völler, following up his run, to strike the ball with the outside of his foot and into the corner of the goal.
  • The player removed from play serves the penalty in the penalty box for a set amount of time proportional to the severity of the infraction.
  • In 1964, following the Hukou Incident and his subordinate Chao Chih-hwa's attempted coup d'état, Chiang Wei-kuo was in the penalty box and never held any authority in the military.
  • In that case, the team designates another player to serve the minor or major; both players go to the penalty box, but only the designee may not be replaced, and he is released upon the expiration of the two or five minutes.

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