Playing vs Yips - What's the difference?
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(gerund of play) An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.
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(informal) A nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.
* 2013 , William Fotheringham, The Guardian , Monday 13 May 2013:
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As nouns the difference between playing and yips
is that playing is (gerund of play) an occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played while yips is (informal) a nervous condition which prevents a sportsman from playing properly; especially a condition which causes a golfer to miss an easy putt, or a tennis player to serve a double fault.As verbs the difference between playing and yips
is that playing is while yips is (yip).playing
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(wikipedia yips) (-)- Defining precisely why a professional cyclist might lose his touch on descents is as difficult as explaining a golfer's yips or a striker's sudden inability to find the net. It happens rarely, most famously in the early 1990s; the double world champion Gianni Bugno suffered from it and only rediscovered his "flow" after being made to listen to Mozart to calm his nerves.