For Back Checking we have a term and definition in Ice Hockey.

Back Checking (Ice Hockey)

When the puck changes hand, the offensive team becomes the defensive team. In order to slow the attack of the offensive team, each player on the defensive team is assigned an attacker and must come close to them and either strip them of the puck or intercept a pass intended for them. This strategy is known as "back-checking" and should be employed by all skaters on the ice. A poem from Floyd Percival’s famous hockey instruction book, the Hockey Handbook explains how hard it is to be effective back-checker:
For players who can’t seem to back-check -
When I was young and in my prime
I used to back check all the time.
But now that I am old and gray,
I only back-check once per day.
For players that manage to back-check even when it hurts -
Even though it seems a crime
I keep on going all the time.
I‘ll dig in hard each time I play,
though it will turn me old and gray.

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