Peloton Peloton In a road bicycle race, the peloton (from French, originally meaning 'platoon') is the main group or pack of riders. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near (particularly behind) other riders. The reduction in drag is dramatic; in the middle of a well-developed group drag can be reduced to as little as 5%-10%. Exploitation of this potential energy saving leads to very complex cooperative and competitive interactions between riders and teams in race tactics. The term is also used to refer to the community of professional cyclists in general, as in 'the professional
Football (word) "football" or just "league". Fans of Gaelic football in Northern Ireland rarely use "football" for the sport (see above). Outside the nationalist community in Northern Ireland, Gaelic football is usually known by its full name. American football is usually known by that name or "gridiron", a name made familiar to a wider British audience by Channel 4, when it showed American football on Sunday evenings in the period 1982–1992. In the United States, the word "football" refers to the sport of American football. As in Canada, "football" is used inclusively of Canadian football with American and Canadian football generally seen