Sport/Related Articles

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List of sports

• Air sports [r]: Generic term for various types of aeronautical competition. ^[e]
• American football [r]: A high-contact sport played by two teams of 11 players on a 100-yard field that originated in the United States of America. ^[e]
• Aquatics [r]: A term for water sports taking place in the water, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming. ^[e]
• Archery [r]: An individual sport involving shooting at a target using a bow and arrow. ^[e]
• Association football [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Athletics [r]: The collective term for a group of athletic events in walking, running, jumping or throwing. ^[e]
• Australian rules football [r]: A form of football involving two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field. Players can kick or handle the ball. ^[e]
• Badminton [r]: An indoor game in which players on opposite sides of a net hit a shuttlecock with wire-strung racquets. ^[e]
• Bandy [r]: A winter team sport played with hockey sticks and a ball on a frozen field. Combines elements of ice hockey, field hockey and football. ^[e]
• Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. ^[e]
• Basketball [r]: A ball game played between two teams of 5 players, the objective of which is to throw the ball through one of a pair of hoops fixed above each end of the playing court. ^[e]
• Biathlon [r]: An athletic competition combining the sport activities of cross-country, or Nordic, skiing, and rifle shooting. ^[e]
• Bobsleigh [r]: Sled racing down an ice-covered run using a sledge which is mechanically steered and braked. There are two-men and four-men versions of the sled. ^[e]
• Boomerang [r]: Traditionally a piece of wood that was carved and twisted so that when it was thrown correctly it would return to the thrower. ^[e]
• Bowls [r]: Ancient sport in which players roll weighted balls across a green and aim to place their bowl closest to a target ball. ^[e]
• Boxing [r]: A combat sport between two opponents in a roped, square ring who attempt to strike each other with fists enclosed in padded gloves. ^[e]
• Canadian football [r]: A variant of American football that is played on a field that is wider and longer and with 12 players on a side. ^[e]
• Canoeing [r]: Olympic sport which involves racing canoes and kayaks in various disciplines. ^[e]
• Chess [r]: 2-player board game for a checkered board; requires skill, strategy and intellect; the 1960s 3M Bookshelf game series included a version of Chess ^[e]
• Cricket [r]: An outdoor bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large grassy field. ^[e]
• Croquet [r]: A sport using wooden mallets to knock balls across a lawn, playable with average strength, speed, agility and endurance, barefoot or in any kind of shoes including high heels. ^[e]
• Curling [r]: A game, invented in Scotland, which involves two teams of four players who slide a heavy stone towards a target at the opposite end of a long, narrow sheet of ice. ^[e]
• Cycling [r]: The sport, recreational activity and means of transportation of riding a bicycle. ^[e]
• Darts [r]: An indoor game in which flighted missiles called darts are thrown at a dartboard target in order to score points. ^[e]
• Diving [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Equestrianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fencing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gaelic football [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Golf [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gymnastics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Handball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Horse racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hurling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ice hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Judo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Karate [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lacrosse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Luge [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Martial arts [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Modern pentathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Motor racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mountaineering [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multi-sport events [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Olympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paralympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Polo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Racquetball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rock climbing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rowing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rugby league [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rugby union [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sailing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shinty [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sledging [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Softball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Squash [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surfing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Table tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Taekwondo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tenpin bowling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Triathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Volleyball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description