Free Kick

A free kick is used to restart play in several codes of football:

Association football
  • Direct free kick, from which one may score directly
  • Indirect free kick, from which one may not score directly
American football;
  • Safety kick
  • Fair catch kick, a field goal attempted freely from the spot of a fair catch
Other forms of football
  • Free kick (rugby union), usually awarded to a team for a technical offence committed by the opposing side
  • Free kick (Australian rules football), a penalty awarded by a field umpire to a player

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or kick:

    “Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
    Are of two houses; lawful mercy
    Is nothing kin to foul redemption.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Don’t milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)