Explaining Ultimate Frisbee

With Thanksgiving approaching, it's inevitable conversation will lead you to having to describe "Ultimate Frisbee" to a family member.

Below are six published descriptions of the sport of ultimate. If you need a printout to pass around, use this definition. Otherwise, pick and choose your words from these fine examples:

The game is played 7 versus 7 with 70-yard fields and 20-yard end zones. The scoring is similar to football, by passing the disc up and down the field to score in the end zone. However, you cannot run with the disc once you receive a pass. "Ultimate," as it is casually referred, is a non-contact sport, but collisions and injuries are inevitable. The game is self-officiated, so sportsmanship and honesty are two main components of Ultimate.
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Ultimate is constant movement. It mimics sports like football and basketball — there's a lot of sprinting, change of direction, agility. It takes a lot of hand-eye coordination. It also demands flexibility, endurance and proper hydration.
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In sports terms, ultimate Frisbee combines the nonstop action and athletic endurance of soccer with the passing skills of football. Played on a field similar to a football gridiron, the object is to score by catching a pass in the opponent's end zone.
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Ultimate frisbee is a mixture between Australian Rules (AFL), netball and gridiron. The game is self-refereed meaning there are no referees. The game is played on a rectangular field that is 100 metres long with a maximum of seven players on the field at one time. The object of the game, like gridiron, is to move the disc down the field and into the end zone.
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Ultimate frisbee, where teams of seven race to pass the frisbee to a player in the opposite "end zone". There's a lot of running, falling over and skidding, a bit like American football, without the bruising macho element.
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"Playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee actually resembled a game of rugby, only that there was no contact between players and a disc in place of a ball. Teams start out at their end of the field, when the defence team throws the disk as far away from the opponent's "end zone" as possible. The "end zones" are on each ends of the field, equivalent to the space behind the "goal line" in American Football. The offence team then may pick up the disc and start making their way across the field by throwing the disc from player to player. Those holding the disc may only pass it on by throwing. Each team earns a point by successfully catching the disc while standing in the "end zone". However, if the disc drops at any point, possession changes. The winning team is the one that scores the highest number of points in a fixed amount of time, determined before the game, or the first team that reaches a certain predetermined number of points, before that time had passed."
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