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Forearms rotating around each other.
Also known as: Illegal procedure signal
The American football officiating signal for an offensive player moving illegally before the snap.
Signals an offensive player moving illegally before the snap.
Contexts: Public information
Shares its rolling motion with the basketball travelling signal while meaning something entirely unrelated, which is exactly the cross-code confusion this batch exists to document.
Contexts: Public information
Both forearms held horizontally in front of the chest and circled around one another, tracing a rolling loop in the air.
The same rotating-forearms motion means an illegal pre-snap movement in one code and an illegal pivot in the other.