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Common Terms and Abbreviations

For a lot of new users, trying to read a route or understand a speedrunner can be quite confusing. Ocarina of Time is a large game, and with it comes many, many terms and shorthands. Hopefully, this resource will help you make sense of this complex speedrun-speak.

Locations:

Abbreviation	Description
BotW	Bottom of the Well
DC	Dodongo's Cavern (or more rarely, Desert Colossus)
DM	Death Mountain (usually Death Mountain Trail)
DMC	Death Moutain Crater
DMT	Death Mountain Trail
Deku	Deku Tree
Fire	Fire Temple
Forest	Forest Temple OR Kokiri Forest/Lost Woods area (depending on context)
GC	Goron City / Ganon's Castle (depending on context)
GF / Fortress	Gerudo Fortress
GTG	Gerudo Training Grounds
GV	Gerudo Valley
HF/Field	Hyrule Field
Wasteland	Haunted Wasteland
IC	Ice Cavern
Jabu	Jabu Jabu's Belly
Kak	Kakariko Village
Kokiri/KF	Kokiri Forest
LH	Lake Hylia
LLR	Lon Lon Ranch
LW	Lost Woods
SFM	Sacred Forest Meadow
Shadow	Shadow Temple
Spirit	Spirit Temple
ToT	Temple of Time
Water	Water Temple
ZD	Zora's Domain
ZF	Zora's Fountain
ZR	Zora's River

Items:

Abbreviation	Description
BGS	Biggoron Sword / Broken Goron's Sword
BK	Boss Key
Chus	Bombchus
DF	Din's Fire
Explosives	Bombs or Bombchus
FA	Fire Arrows
FW	Farore's Wind
Gaunts	Silver and/or Gold Gauntlets, depending on context
HC	Heart Container
HP	Heart Piece
HS / Hook	Hookshot
Hovers	Hover Boots
IA	Ice Arrows
IBs	Iron Boots
LA	Light Arrows
Lens	Lens of Truth
MS	Master Sword
MoT	Mask of Truth
NL	Nayru's Love
Nuts	Deku Nuts
OoT	Ocarina of Time (or the game itself)
Potion	Odd Potion (in some contexts, red/blue/green potion)
Prelude, Minuet, Bolero, Serenade, Nocturne, Requiem	Respective warp songs
Rang	Boomerang
Rod	Fishing Rod
Saw	Poacher's Saw
Sling	Fairy Slingshot
SoS	Song of Storms
SoT	Song of Time
Spell	Din's Fire, Farore's Wind, or Nayru's Love
Stick	Deku Stick
Sticks	Deku Sticks
Strength Upgrade	Goron's Bracelet, Silver Gauntlets, Gold Gauntlets, or Colored Gauntlets
ZL	Zelda's Lullaby (or Zelda's Letter)

Enemies/NPCs:

Abbreviation	Description
Dorf	Ganondorf
GS	Gold Skulltula
KD	King Dodongo
KZ	King Zora
Nabooru-Knuckle	The last Iron Knuckle fight right before Twinrova
NPC	Non-playable Character
PG	Phantom Ganon

Tricks:

A Slide	Analogue Slide
WESS	Water Extended Superslide
Ass Chest	Horseback archery prize involving glitched RBAed quiver
BA	Bottle Adventure
DoT Skip	Door of Time Skip
ESS	Extended Superslide
GJ	Ground Jump
HESS	Hyper Extended Superslide
ISG	Infinite Sword Glitch
OI	Ocarina Items
PCS	Power Crouch Stab
Pokey Escape	Crouch Stab Kokiri Forest Escape
RBA	Reverse Bottle Adventure
GIM	Get Item Manipulation
SS	Superslide
SH/SJ	Spirit Hover/Jump

Movement:

Abbreviation	Description
Backwalk	Holding target, move straight backwards
Black Wind	Resetting the neutral position of the control stick so its always in the ESS position, typically used during transitions between scenes.
ESS Position	the position of the control stick that allows for ESS
Guanowalk	while holding target, move diagonally
JS	Jumpslash
Moonwalk	Rotate stick after releasing target in a guanowalk
Pivot	Turn 90 or 180 degrees without changing position
Sidehop	Jumping to the left or right while holding target
Silent Roll	Rolling in place
Target	Z on an N64 controller, L on a Gamecube controller

Miscellaneous:

Abbreviation	Description
Any%	Beat the game
Carpet chus	Bombchus from the salesman on the flying carpet in Haunted Wasteland
CC	Crooked Cartridge
CS	Cutscene
DW/Deathwarp	Dying to reset your location (if continue) or warp to file select starting point
GC(N)	GameCube
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
Low%	Beat the game with least items possible
MM	Majora's Mask
MQ	Master Quest
MST	Medallions Stones Trials (Complete all 8 major dungeons, dispel Ganon's trials, and beat the game)
N64	Nintendo 64
NMS	No Major Skips (see MST)
OoB	Out of Bounds
Buffer	Pause Buffer
RDO	Reverse Dungeon Order
RNG	Random Number Generator
RTA	Real Time Attack
Seam	The edge of two textures that can or can't be climbed
Split	Segment (of a run)
TAS(er)	Tool Assisted Speedrun(ner)
SDA	Speed Demos Archive
SW	Savewarp (Saving and reloading to reset your location)
VC	Virtual Console
BoTW/Well chus	Bombchus from the chest in Bottom of the Well
ZSR	ZeldaSpeedRuns
SRC/SRDC	Speedrun.com (when referring to the OoT page)