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Dual wield
Dual wield: fighting with one weapon in each hand, in offset pairs like rapier and parrying dagger or Musashi's Niten Ichi-ryu, or matched pairs. Distinguished from shield and two-handed weapon use; survives in kendo nito, HEMA, and Chinese double weapons.
Dual-threat quarterback
Dual-threat quarterback: an American football quarterback effective at both passing and rushing. Contrasted with pocket passers; central to spread option and read-option offenses; injury risk is the main concern.
Duane Ludwig
Duane "Bang" Ludwig (born 1978), American MMA coach and retired kickboxer and MMA fighter; held the UFC's fastest-knockout record with a six-second KO of Jonathan Goulet (2006), later 2013 Coach of the Year at Team Alpha Male and founder of Bang Muay Thai.
Duane Solomon
Duane Solomon is an American 800-meter runner, born in 1984, who finished fourth at the 2012 London Olympics in 1:42.82, second fastest by an American.
Duane Swanson
Duane Alexander Swanson (1913-2000), American basketball player, UCLA and Universal Studios AAU player, won gold with the United States at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the first Olympic basketball tournament; later played NBL for Sheboygan.
Dubai Basketball
Dubai Basketball (Dubai BC) is a professional basketball club founded in 2023, based at Coca-Cola Arena, Dubai. It joined the ABA League in 2024-25, entered the EuroLeague in 2025-26 on a five-year wildcard, and won the 2025/26 ABA title.
Dubai International Cricket Stadium
Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai Sports City, UAE, opened 2009, 25,000 seats, 'ring of fire' roof lights; slow, low pitch hosting T20 World Cup, Asia Cup, and IPL finals.
Dubai World Cup (كأس دبي العالمي)
Dubai World Cup (كأس دبي العالمي): Group 1 dirt race over 2,000 m at Meydan Racecourse, Dubai, run since 1996 (first at Nad Al Sheba, won by Cigar); $12 million purse within a $30.5 million nine-race card; 2026 winner Magnitude.
Dublin GAA
Dublin GAA is the county board administering Gaelic games in Dublin, Ireland, based at Parnell Park. It holds 31 football and 6 hurling All-Ireland titles, won six-in-a-row, and manages 5,500 teams amid urban population growth.
Dublin Guardians
Dublin Guardians: Dublin-based T20 cricket franchise in the European T20 Premier League (ETPL), owned by Rahul Dravid's Indian consortium, captained by Ravichandran Ashwin; launched 2026, finished last in inaugural season.
Dubravko Simenc
Dubravko Šimenc, born 1966 in Zagreb, is a Croatian water polo player who won Olympic gold for Yugoslavia in 1988 and silver for Croatia in 1996, plus World Championship golds in 1986 and 1991.
Dubs (mascot)
Dubs II, Alaskan Malamute, is the University of Washington Huskies' 14th live mascot, serving since 2019; live UW mascots date to 1922, all malamutes since 1959, managed by Anne-Lise Knight.
Ducati Corse
Ducati Corse, founded 1999, is Ducati Motor Holding's official racing division running MotoGP (Ducati Lenovo Team, Desmosedici GP) and WorldSBK (Aruba.it Racing), known for desmodromic valves, winglet aerodynamics, and 2023-2025 MotoGP titles.
Duce Staley
Duce Staley, born 1975 in Tampa, Florida, is a former NFL running back for the Eagles and Steelers, now the Cleveland Browns' running backs coach.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a 2024 comedic detective adventure by Happy Broccoli Games starring duck PI Eugene McQuacklin, released May 23, 2024 on PC, Switch, and Xbox, later PS5 and mobile, with a 2025 sequel The Ghost of Glamping.
Duck Hunt
Duck Hunt (NES, 1984 Japan, 1985 NA launch) is Nintendo R&D1's light gun shooter for the NES Zapper, with Game A/B duck modes and Game C clay shooting; it works only on CRT televisions and was re-released on Wii U Virtual Console in 2014.
Duck, duck, goose
Duck, duck, goose is a children's circle chasing game, called Duck, Duck, Gray Duck in Minnesota; earliest found print reference 1924, Swedish origin theory unproven.
Duckpin bowling
Duckpin bowling is a small-ball variant of ten-pin bowling from Baltimore, played with a 5-inch fingerless ball, 9.4-inch pins, three rolls per frame, and no recorded sanctioned 300 game.
Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method
Duckworth–Lewis–Stern (DLS) method, successor to Duckworth–Lewis, is the ICC's formula for revised targets in rain-interrupted limited-overs cricket, using overs-and-wickets resource percentages, a 235-run par average, and ICC-distributed calculator software.
Duco Telgenkamp
Duco Telgenkamp, Dutch field hockey forward (born 2002, The Hague), Olympic gold medalist Paris 2024 after the decisive shoot-out goal against Germany, 2023 European champion and top scorer, Kampong then Amsterdam, owner of Revived.
Dudak
Dudak (Dudák) is a Czech shedding card game related to Durak, in which each player has an individual trump suit and the last player holding cards loses.
Dudley Boyz
The Dudley Boyz, Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley, an ECW-born WWE tag team (also Team 3D in TNA) famous for the 3D and table spots; 18 WWE/WCW/ECW title reigns, 23 worldwide, 2018 WWE Hall of Famers.
Dudley Storey
Dudley Storey (1939–2017) was a New Zealand rower who won Olympic gold in the 1968 coxed four and silver in the 1972 coxless four, then managed national teams.
Duel Masters (デュエル・マスターズ)
Duel Masters (デュエル・マスターズ) is a Japanese trading card game by Wizards of the Coast and Takara Tomy, launched May 2002 from a 1999 CoroCoro manga; five civilizations, 40-card decks, shields, evolution creatures, over 8.2 billion cards shipped, and the DUEL MASTERS PLAY'S app.
Duel Masters Trading Card Game
Duel Masters (デュエル・マスターズ) is a Japanese trading card game by Wizards of the Coast and Takara Tomy, first released May 2002 (DM-01); over 8.2 billion cards shipped, 40-card decks, four-copy limit, English support ended 2006, DUEL MASTERS PLAY'S app since 2019.
Duene
Duene is a two-row mancala-style board game of the Ewe people of Togo and Ghana, played on a 2x6 board with two stores and 48 counters, with four-counter hole captures and an eight-counter endgame, documented by Schönhärl in 1909.
Duet Night Abyss
Duet Night Abyss (デュエットナイトアビス) is a free-to-play 3D action RPG by Pan Studio/Hero Games, launched October 28, 2025 on PC, iOS, Android. Unusually for the genre, it removed character/weapon gacha and stamina before launch, monetizing through cosmetics only.
Duff Gibson
Duff Gibson, born 1966 in Vaughan, Ontario, is a Canadian skeleton racer who won Olympic gold at Turin 2006 at age 39, the oldest individual Winter Olympic champion.
Duggie Stewart
Duggie Stewart (Douglas Norman Stewart, 1913–1991), Scottish army officer and British Olympic equestrian; won team show jumping gold on Aherlow at Helsinki 1952 after a 1948 eventing elimination.
Duhan van der Merwe
Duhan van der Merwe (born 1995, George, South Africa) is a rugby union winger for Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland, the nation's record men's try scorer (35 tries in 52 games), and a two-time British & Irish Lions tourist (2021, 2025).