hazard
/ˈhazəd/
The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
He encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life.
An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
The video game involves guiding a character on a skateboard past all kinds of hazards.
(in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
Chance.
Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
The side of the court into which the ball is served.
A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.