Penalty box: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The penalty box (commonly called the sin bin) is the area in ice hockey and rugby league where a player sits to serve the time of a given Penalty.

In ice hockey a period in the box occurs for all penalties, unless the penalty is a misconduct penalty.

In rugby league only penalties involving violent or dangerous play result in a sin-binning; the referee usually signals such infringements by means of a yellow card (though this is not used in Australia). In a standard game of rugby league a player is sent to the sin bin for ten minutes.