遊ゆう撃げき手しゅ

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しゅ

Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

1

noun

shortstop

baseball

Baseball position between second and third base.

彼かれは高こう校こう野や球きゅうで遊ゆう撃げき

手しゅ

を

守まも

っ

て

いる

。

He plays shortstop in high school baseball.

遊ゆう撃げき手しゅが難むずかしいゴロをさばいた。

The shortstop handled a difficult grounder.

Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が遊ゆう撃げき手しゅを務つとめるto serve as (play) shortstop
彼かれは高こう校こう時じ代だい、遊ゆう撃げき手しゅを務つとめていた。
He played shortstop back in high school.
遊ゆう撃げき手しゅとして活かつ躍やくするto excel/perform well as a shortstop
彼かれはプロ球きゅう団だんで遊ゆう撃げき手しゅとして活かつ躍やくしている。
He is thriving as a shortstop for a professional team.

Kanji

遊play
撃beat, attack, defeat
手hand

Related words

ショート
遊撃手 is the formal baseball term for the shortstop position, while ショート is the casual, everyday word players and fans use.
遊ゆう撃げき
遊撃 is the common short form used in casual baseball talk, while 遊撃手 is the full, formal term for the shortstop position.
ＳＳ
遊撃手 is the standard Japanese baseball term for shortstop, while ＳＳ is the English-derived abbreviation used in scorebooks.

Don't confuse with

二に塁るい手しゅ
遊撃手 plays between second and third base, while 二塁手 (second baseman) is stationed closer to second base itself.
三さん塁るい手しゅ
遊撃手 covers the deep infield hole between second and third, while 三塁手 (third baseman) guards the area right around third base.

Etymology

Compound of 遊撃 (yūgeki, 'flanking attack; raid') and 手 (shu, 'player; person'). The term was adopted into baseball to describe the position that covers the area between second and third base, originally from the military concept of a mobile, flanking role.