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| x Baseball |
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Baseball bat | National League | Detroit Tigers |
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on...
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| American League | Boston Red Sox | ||||
| Major League Baseball | San Francisco Giants | ||||
| Frontier League | Florida Marlins | ||||
| National League West | Texas Rangers | ||||
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| x Basketball |
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Basketball | National Basketball Association | Orlando Magic |
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 feet (3.048 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and...
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| Atlantic Coast Conference | Philadelphia 76ers | ||||
| Philippine Basketball Association | Dallas Mavericks | ||||
| British Basketball League | Cleveland Cavaliers | ||||
| American Basketball Association | Minnesota Timberwolves | ||||
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| x Tennis |
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Tennis ball |
Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt (most of the time Optic Yellow) over a net into the...
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| x Ice Hockey |
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National Hockey League | San Jose Sharks |
Ice hockey (frequently simply called hockey in countries where it is played) is a team sport played on ice that originated in Canada around 1800. It is a fast-paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold...
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| Western Hockey League | Nashville Predators | ||||
| International Ice Hockey League | Detroit Red Wings | ||||
| HockeyAllsvenskan | St. Louis Blues | ||||
| English Premier Ice Hockey League | Calgary Flames | ||||
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| x American football |
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Canadian Football League | Carolina Panthers |
American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football (Canada also has its own slightly different version, Canadian football), is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the...
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| National Football League | Arizona Cardinals | ||||
| National Football Conference | Baltimore Ravens | ||||
| American Football Conference | Jacksonville Jaguars | ||||
| AFC East | Kansas City Chiefs | ||||
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| x Football |
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Serie A | Real Madrid |
Football
(also known as association football or soccer) is a team sport played
between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely considered to be the
most popular sport in the world. A ball game, it is played on a
rectangular grass field, or...
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| La Liga | Hitchin Town F.C. | ||||
| Primera División de México | Club Atlético River Plate | ||||
| Liga Paraguaya: Primera División | Houston Dynamo | ||||
| 2. Fußball-Bundesliga | D.C. United | ||||
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| x Curling |
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Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice. Teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones down the ice towards the target ...
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| x Luge |
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A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face up) and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Luge is also the name of the...
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| x Cycling |
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Helmet |
Cycling, also known as biking, is the use of bicycles, or – less commonly – unicycles, tricycles, quadricycles and other similar wheeled human powered vehicles (HPVs) as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport. It is done on roads and...
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| Bicycle | |||||
| x Shinty |
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Shinty (or camanachd or iomain in modern Scottish Gaelic) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played almost exclusively in the Highlands of Scotland, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was...
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| x Jai alai |
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Jai alai (pronounced /ˈhaɪ.əlaɪ/ in English and [xai aˈlai] in Basque) is a fronton (open-walled arena) used to play a variety of Basque Pelota called Zesta Punta, and, more broadly, Zesta Punta itself.
The Basque Government promotes jai alai as ...
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| x Badminton |
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Shuttlecock |
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with...
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| x Volleyball |
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Volleyball net | USA Volleyball | Japan men's national volleyball team |
Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. This article focuses on competitive indoor...
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| Volleyball | Major League Volleyball | France men's national volleyball team | |||
| Polish Volleyball League | Italy men's national volleyball team | ||||
| Fédération Internationale de Volleyball | Italy women's national volleyball team | ||||
| Confédération Européenne de Volleyball | Dominican Republic women's national volleyball team | ||||
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| x Beach volleyball |
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Volleyball net | Association of Volleyball Professionals |
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played on sand. Like other variations of volleyball, two teams, separated by a high net, try to score points against the other by grounding a ball on the other team's court. Competitive...
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| x Cricket |
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Wicket | Australian Domestic Cricket | Australian cricket team |
Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The...
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| Cricket ball | Victorian Premier Cricket | English cricket team | |||
| Cricket bat | International Cricket | Western Warriors | |||
| National League | Southern Redbacks | ||||
| South Wales Cricket League | New South Wales Blues | ||||
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| x Rugby football |
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Vodacom Cup | All Blacks |
Rugby football (usually just "rugby") may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of football developed in different areas of the United Kingdom.
A ball-game resembling rugby football was a game played by ancient...
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| Currie Cup | Fairfax Eagles | ||||
| National Provincial Championship | Hull FC | ||||
| Guinness Premiership | Penrith Panthers | ||||
| Super 14 | Brisbane Broncos | ||||
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| x Skiing |
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Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding. Skiing can be grouped into two general categories. Nordic skiing is the oldest and includes...
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| x Cross-country skiing |
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Cross-country skiing (also known as XC skiing) is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles. It is popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada,...
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| x Powerlifting |
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Powerlifting is a strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. Powerlifting resembles the sport of weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting heavy weights in three attempts.
A powerlifting...
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| x Australian rules football |
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VFL/AFL | East Fremantle Football Club |
Australian football, also commonly referred to as Australian rules football, football, footy, Aussie rules or AFL (although AFL is actually the name of the elite national league, not the sport).. It is a football variant played between two teams of...
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| Australian Football League | Melbourne University Football Club | ||||
| Lefroy Football Club | |||||
| Sandy Bay Football Club | |||||
| Cananore Football Club | |||||
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| x Rock Climbing |
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Piton |
Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up or across natural rock formations or man-made rock walls with the goal of reaching the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route. Rock climbing is similar to scrambling ...
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| x Ice climbing |
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Ice climbing, as the term indicates, is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice...
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| x Racquetball |
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Racquet |
For other sports often called "paddleball", see Paddleball (sport).
Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court. Earl Riskey developed paddleball in the 1920s. Joe Sobek is credited with inventing...
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| x Squash |
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Racquet |
Squash is a racquet sport played by two players (or four players for doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. Squash is recognized by the IOC and remains in contention for incorporation in a future Olympic program.
The game...
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| x Road bicycle racing |
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Racing bicycle | UCI ProTour | Jan Ullrich |
Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on roads (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. The term 'road racing' is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously (unless riding a...
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| Bicycle helmet | UCI Professional Continental Tour | Astana Team | |||
| Groupset | Team Columbia-Highroad | ||||
| x Mountain biking |
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Mountain bike |
Mountain biking entails the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, whether riding specially equipped mountain bikes or hybrid road bikes. Most mountain bikes share similar characteristics that underscore durability and...
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| x Netball |
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Uganda national netball team |
Netball is a non-contact team sport originating from the United States similar to, and derived from, basketball. Invented in 1895 by Clara Gregory Baer, a pioneer in women's sport, netball is now pre-eminently played as a women's team sport in...
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| South Africa national netball team | |||||
| The Sunshine Girls | |||||
| Australia national netball team | |||||
| Adelaide Thunderbirds | |||||
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| x Fives |
Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.
The name may be derived from the...
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| x American handball |
American (or court) handball, usually referred to simply as handball, is a sport in which players hit a small rubber ball against one or more walls using their hands.
It is a common belief that American handball was brought to the United States in...
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| x Running |
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Nike Free |
Running is a means for an animal to move on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time. This is in contrast to walking, where one foot is always in contact with the ground, the...
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| x Triathlon |
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Swimwear | Deutsche Triathlon Liga | Seesportclub Berlin Grünau Abteilung Triathlon |
A triathlon is a multi-sport endurance event consisting of swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall course completion time, including timed "transitions" between the...
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| Bicycle | |||||
| Triathlon bicycle | |||||
| x Inline speed skating |
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Inline speed skating is the sport of racing on inline skates(Roller sports) It is often called inline racing by participants. Although it primarily evolved from racing on traditional roller skates, the sport is similar enough to ice speed skating...
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| x Rowing |
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Janousek | Robinson College Boat Club |
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water....
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| x Swimming |
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Västerås SS |
Swimming is movement through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational. Its primary uses are bathing, cooling, travel, fishing, escape, exercise, and sport.
Swimming has been known...
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| Norrköpings KK | |||||
| Kenyon Men's Swimming | |||||
| x Gymnastics |
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Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération...
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| x Hurling |
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Fullen Gaels |
Hurling (in Irish, iománaíocht or iomáint) is an outdoor team sport of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the GAA, and played with sticks called hurls and a ball called a sliotar. The game, played primarily in Ireland, has prehistoric origins...
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| Saint Saviours GAA Club | |||||
| x Snowboarding |
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Snowboard |
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by...
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| x Tetherball |
Tetherball is a North American game for two opposing players. The equipment consists of a 10 ft (3 m), stationary metal pole, from which is hung a ball from a rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each player tries to...
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| x Roller derby |
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Rat City Rollergirls | Derby Liberation Front |
Roller derby is an American-invented contact sport—and historically, a form of sports entertainment—based on formation roller skating around an oval track. In past decades, roller derby had been primarily a professional or paid sport for both women...
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| Grave Danger | |||||
| Sockit Wenches | |||||
| Throttle Rockets | |||||
| x Skateboarding |
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Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or just skater.
Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an artform, a job, or a method of...
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| x Lacrosse |
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Western Lacrosse Association | New Westminster Salmonbellies |
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the...
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| National Lacrosse League | Long Island Lizards | ||||
| American Lacrosse League | Dutch National Lacrosse Team | ||||
| Major League Lacrosse | Rochester Rattlers | ||||
| San Jose Stealth | |||||
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| x Polo |
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Horse | Tramontana |
Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport...
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| polo stick | White Birch | ||||
| polo ball | Ellerstina | ||||
| Helmet | La Dolfina | ||||
| Boot | La Aguada | ||||
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| x Water polo |
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Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals....
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| x Surfing |
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Surfboard |
Surfing is the act of a person (or a boat) riding down a breaking wave, gathering speed from the downward and forward movement. Most commonly, the term is used for a surface water sport in which the person surfing moves along the face of a breaking...
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| x Diving |
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Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured...
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| x Caving |
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Caving — also known as spelunking, when referring to amateurs without the proper knowledge, or training — is the recreational sport of exploring caves. In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.
The challenges...
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| x Jump rope |
A jump rope, skipping rope, or skip rope is the primary tool used in the game of skipping played by children and many young adults, where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. This...
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| x Finswimming |
Finswimming is the progression of a swimmer using monofins or normal swimfins (called bifins or stereofins within the sport) either on the water surface or underwater, using only muscle strength. It is a discipline of underwater sports. The...
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| x Roller sport |
Roller sports are sports that use roller skates or similar. The international governing body is the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS).
It includes the following sports, disciplines and events:
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| x Powerboating |
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Power boating describes activities performed in a motorized boat. Generally a power boat has a high power to weight ratio and a hull design that allows for easy planing which allows for higher speed and improved handling. Power boats are often used...
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| x Korfball |
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Korfball (Dutch: Korfbal) is a team ball game, similar to mixed netball. It is played in more than 50 countries. The sport is very popular in both the Netherlands and Belgium. A team consists of four men and four women.
Korfball is played indoors or...
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| x Bowling |
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Bowling pin |
Bowling is a sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called pins or to get close to a target ball. There are many forms of bowling, with one of the most recent being ten-pin...
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| x Contract bridge |
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American Contract Bridge League |
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depending on the variant played). It is played by four players who form two partnerships; the partners sit opposite each other...
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| x Golf |
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Putter | Asian PGA Tour | Phil Mickelson |
Golf is a sport in which players (golfers) using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that do not use a standardized playing area;...
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| Japan PGA Tour | Wake Forest Demon Deacons women's golf | ||||
| Korea PGA Tour | |||||
| PGA Tour of Australasia | |||||
| PGA European Tour | |||||
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| x Tug of war |
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Tug of war, also known as tug o' war, tug war or rope pulling, is a sport that directly puts two teams against each other in a test of strength. The term may also be used as a metaphor to describe a demonstration of brute strength by two opposing...
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| x Bandy |
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Västerås SK Bandy |
Bandy is a winter sport where a ball is hit with a stick. It shares a common ancestry with ice hockey having been developed from the informal "ball and stick on ice" games known collectively as shinny. Bandy is played on ice.
Old names for bandy are...
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| x Water skiing |
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Waterskiing is a sport where an individual (or more than one individual) is pulled behind a motor boat or a cable ski installation on a body of water. The skier is either wearing one (slalom) or two (double) skis. The surface area of the ski (or...
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| x Karate |
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Karate (空手) or karate-do (空手道) (Japanese pronunciation: [kaɽate] ( listen), English: /kəˈrɑːtiː/) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenpō. It is primarily a striking art using punching,...
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| x Mountaineering |
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Mountaineering is the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, backpacking and climbing mountains. It is also sometimes known as alpinism, particularly in Europe. While it began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains,...
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| x Billiards |
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Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by...
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