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I'm pretty sure the sports meaning comes from the theathre meaning. Ansible has other bits of theatre metaphor in it, such as "roles" and "scripts".

• hueving 10y ago
  What is the theatre meaning? I'm not familiar with that term.
  • jordigh 10y ago
    It's just a book that contains one or more scripts, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleury_Playbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleury_Playbook