Sandbagging may refer to:

  • Hiding the strength, skill or difficulty of something or someone in a sport or competition:
  • Sandbagging (chess), deliberately lowering one's rating to enter a lower-rated section of a tournament
  • Sandbagging (climbing), undergrading the difficulty of a climbing route
  • Sandbagging (cue sports), disguising one's playing ability
  • Sandbagging (golf), misrepresenting one's handicap
  • Sandbagging (grappling), competing in a skill-bracket or being ranked lower than one is deemed capable of
  • Slow play (poker), deceptive play in poker
  • Sandbagging (racing), deliberately qualifying slower than what the car can actually perform
  • Sandbagging (law), suing for a breach of a contractual representation or warranty despite having known at the time of the contract that it was untrue
  • Sandbagging (professional wrestling), to not cooperate with a throw and to act as dead weight
  • Sandbagging, a verb describing the use of sandbags for flood control and other applications

See also

  • The Sandbaggers, a British TV series from the late 1970s
  • Sandbag (disambiguation)