Wheelchair curling words · Beginner

Curling in which every stone is delivered from a stationary wheelchair, and no sweeping is allowed. The game is scheduled for 8 ends. It is played at the World Wheelchair Curling Championship and in the Paralympics.

Sweeping is not permitted in wheelchair curling. Sweeping is allowed in the last stone draw in other curling, except in wheelchair curling.

The foot-hold at each end of the ice that players start the delivery from. Wheelchair curlers do not use it.

The stone is delivered from a stationary wheelchair. The wheels must be in direct contact with the ice and no part of the delivering player's body may touch the ice. The player releases the stone from the hand, or from a delivery stick, clearly before it reaches the hog line at the delivery end.

Two thin wool lines at each end of the sheet, either side of the centre line, running from the hog line to the outermost edge of the nearest circle of the house, with each line's outer edge 457 mm (18 in.) from the centre line.

A pole a player uses to push the stone instead of releasing it from the hand. It is allowed in wheelchair events only, must follow the Wheelchair Curling Policy, and a player who chooses one must use it for all stones in the whole game. It is made of a delivery head, a tube and a handle.

At World Curling wheelchair competitions each team on the ice has four players delivering stones, and both genders must be on the ice at all times. A team that breaks this forfeits the game.

A team of two players, one man and one woman, with no alternates. A team that does not have both players for the whole game forfeits it. Two team officials are allowed.