| BACK LINE | The line behind the house. Once crossed a stone is out of play |
| BITER | A stone barely touching the 12-foot ring |
| BLANK END | An end in which neither team has a stone in the house |
| BONSPIEL | A curling tournament |
| BURNT STONE | A stone touched while in motion |
| BUTTON | The smallest ring in the house. It is two feet in diameter, also called the "potlid" |
| DELIVERY | The process of throwing a stone |
| CENTRE LINE | The line that runs down the middle of the sheet from hack to hack |
| DRAW | A stone that comes to rest within the house |
| ECF | European Curling Federation |
| EIGHT ENDER | An end where all eight stones of one team are better than the opposition's closest |
| END | When sixteen stones have come to rest. Similar to an inning in baseball |
| EXTRA END | The deciding end played when the score is level after all scheduled ends have been played |
| FREEZE | A stone coming to rest touching another stone |
| FREE GUARD ZONE | The area between the hog line and the tee line excluding the house |
| FREE GUARD ZONE RULE | The rule that states that an opponent’s stone in the Free Guard Zone cannot be removed from play until after the first four stones have been played |
| GUARD | A shot that comes to rest in front of another stone for protection |
| HACK | The pieces of rubber you push off from at either end of the sheet |
| HAMMER | The last shot of the end |
| HOGGED | A shot that comes to rest short or on the hog line and is removed from play |
| HOG LINE | The line 10,06 meter (33 feet) from the hack |
| HOUSE | The target area 12 feet in diameter |
| HURRY! | To sweep immediately and hard |
| IN-TURN | A stone that rotates clockwise for a right handed player |
| LEAD | Player of a team who plays the first two stones for his team in an end |
| OUT-TURN | A stone that rotates counter clock-wise for a right-handed player |
| PEBBLE | The frozen bumps on the ice that the stones ride on |
| PEEL | A hard takeout designed to remove guards |
| PORT | A space between two lying stones, large enough for another one to pass through |
| RAISE | Promotion; to move a lying stone further |
| RCCC | The Royal Caledonian Curling Club (Scotland) - the mother club of curling |
| RINK | The building where curling takes place or A curling team or The sheet of ice on which a curling game is played |
| ROCK | The alternative (North American) term for a stone |
| SECOND | Player who plays his two stones second for his team |
| SHEET | The total playing area for one game |
| SHOT | A played stone or The word used to indicate a point won at the end of an end (shot rock) |
| SKIP | The captain of the team, usually (but not necessarily) plays last two stones of a team in an end |
| SPINNER | A stone thrown with excessive spin |
| STEAL | Scoring a point without last stone advantage |
| TAKE-OUT | A stone thrown hard enough to remove another stone from play. Also called a "HIT" |
| TEE | The cross in the centre of the house |
| TEE LINE | The line that intersects the house at the centreline |
| THE "TOSS" | The toss of the coin to determine last rock in the first end |
| THIRD | Player who plays his two stones third; often Vice-Skip of the team |
| WCF | World Curling Federation |
| WCT | World Curling Tour |
| WCT-E | World Curling Tour - Europe |
| WEIGHT | The momentum applied to a stone for distance |
| "Hit the broom" | A rock thrown accurately at the aiming point |
| "On the broom" | Same as above |
| "Lost its handle" | A rock that loses its rotation |
| "Nice rock" | Good shot |
| "Nice Toss" | Same as above |
| Tee weight | A rock thrown hard enough to stop on the Tee Line |
| Back ring weight | A rock thrown hard enough to stop in the back of the house |
| Draw the "lid" | Draw to the button |
| Draw the "pin" | Same as above |
| "Fudge" | The rock hits the heavily slid area in the house and stops quickly |
| Hack weight | A rock thrown hard enough to stop near the hack |
| Normal hit | A rock thrown hard enough to remove another rock from play |
| Heavy hit | A rock thrown hard enough to forcefully remove a rock from play |
| "Split'em" | Hitting a rock at such an angle as to split them apart |
| "You dumped it" | A rock thrown inside the line of delivery, usually at the point of release |
| "You flipped it" | A rock thrown outside the line of delivery, usually at the point of relea |
| "Take the rock" | Sweep closest to the rock |
| "The rock picked" | The moving rock picked up a piece of debris that altered its course |
| Weld | A perfect freeze |