tripping

Tripping also refers to experiencing the effects of some psychadelic drug. The term likely derived from the fact that a hallucinatory / euphoric episode lasts at least 3-5 hours. Therefore, one is taking a "trip". Also lead to the phrase "tripping balls"

Tripping is a minor penalty in hockey - more specifically, in ice hockey. It's pretty much what you'd expect: if one player trips another, usually this is done with the stick, the offending player is whistled and sent to the penalty box for two minutes. During this period the penalized player's team is shorthanded and the other team has a power play. See those nodes for more information.

Sometimes, though, a penalty shot is awarded to the player tripped. If the tripped up player is on a breakaway - meaning he's going in all alone on the opposing team's goaltender and has a great scoring opportunity - it seems more fair and just to let that player have a penalty shot, or redo the scoring opportunity, essentially, that he was denied by the offense. Whether the penatly shot is successful or not, sometimes the offended team still gets a power play.

Trip"ping (?), a.

1.

Quick; nimble; stepping lightly and quickly.

2. Her.

Having the right forefoot lifted, the others remaining on the ground, as if he were trotting; trippant; -- said of an animal, as a hart, buck, and the like, used as a bearing.

© Webster 1913.

Trip"ping, n.

1.

Act of one who, or that which, trips.

2.

A light dance.

Other trippings to be trod of lighter toes. Milton.

3. Naut.

The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

Tripping line Naut., a small rope attached to the topgallant or royal yard, used to trip the yard, and in lowering it to the deck; also, a line used in letting go the anchor.

Luce.

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