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| Baseball |
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Computer Game Genre | Baseball bat | American League |
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | National League | ||||
| Film genre | Major League Baseball | ||||
| Art Subject | Frontier League | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | National League West | ||||
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| Basketball | Computer Game Genre | Basketball | National Basketball Association |
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Atlantic Coast Conference | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | Philippine Basketball Association | ||||
| School sports team | British Basketball League | ||||
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| Tennis |
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Computer Game Genre | Tennis ball |
Tennis is a game 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 yellowy-green, but can be any color or...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Racquet | ||||
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| Ice Hockey |
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Computer Game Genre | National Hockey League |
Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey in Canada, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Sweden and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are...
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| Profession | Western Hockey League | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | International Ice Hockey League | ||||
| Olympic sport | HockeyAllsvenskan | ||||
| School sports team | English Premier Ice Hockey League | ||||
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| American football |
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Computer Game Genre | National Football League |
American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play. The object of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone....
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Canadian Football League | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | National Football Conference | ||||
| Media genre | American Football Conference | ||||
| Olympic sport | AFC East | ||||
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| Football |
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Computer Game Genre | Liga Paraguaya: Primera División |
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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| Profession | Primera División de México | ||||
| Type/domain equivalent topic | La Liga | ||||
| Website Category | Serie A | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | 2. Fußball-Bundesliga | ||||
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| Curling |
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Olympic sport |
Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffle board, 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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| Luge | Olympic sport |
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine 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 sport which...
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| Cycling |
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Type/domain equivalent topic | Bicycle |
Cycling is the use of bicycle, or - less commonly - unicycle, tricycle, quadricycle and other similar wheeled human powered vehicle (HPVs) as a means of transport, a form of recreation or a sport. It is done on roads and paths, across open country,...
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| Club interest | Helmet | ||||
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| Shinty |
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Shinty (derived from the Scottish Gaelic sinteag although it is referred to as camanachd or iomain in modern Gaelic) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played almost exclusively in the Highlands of Scotland, and amongst...
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| Jai alai |
Jai alai ( in English and or in Basque) means "Merry Game" in Euskera. The term is used to denote a fronton (or open-walled arena) used to play a variety of Basque Pelota called Cesta Punta, and, more broadly, to the game itself.
The ball is...
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| Badminton |
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Olympic sport | 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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| Volleyball |
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Olympic sport | Volleyball World League |
Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of six active players, separated by a high net, each try to score points against one another by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.
The complete rules of...
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| School sports team | Association of Volleyball Professionals | ||||
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| Beach volleyball |
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Olympic sport |
Beach volleyball is an Olympic team sport played on sand. Two teams, positioned on either side of a net which divides a rectangular court, hit a volleyball, usually using the hands or arms. Players on each team attempt to hit the ball over the net...
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| Cricket |
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Broadcast Genre | Cricket bat | Australian Domestic Cricket |
Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket...
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| Award discipline | Cricket ball | Victorian Premier Cricket | |||
| Olympic sport | Wicket | International Cricket | |||
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| Rugby football |
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Rugby football, usually just "rugby", may refer to a number of sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom. Rugby league, rugby union, American football and Canadian...
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| Skiing |
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Snow skiing is a group of sports utilizing ski as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding. Although snowboarding shares the general characteristics of skiing sports, it evolved from...
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| Cross-country skiing | Club interest |
Cross-country skiing (also known as XC skiing) is a winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada and Alaska. The popularity of the sport has been quickly growing in the United States and in...
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| Powerlifting |
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Powerlifting is a strength sport, consisting of three events: the squat, the bench press, and the deadlift. The sport resembles Olympic weightlifting because it involves lifting heavy weights in three attempts.
A powerlifting competition takes...
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| Australian rules football |
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Olympic sport | VFL/AFL |
Australian rules football, Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply "football" or "footy" is a team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a ball in the shape of a prolate spheroid. It is a football variant played outdoors on large...
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| Bobsledding |
Bobsledding (an intentional distortion of the name for the sport of bobsleigh) is a relatively new word association game. It has two alternate forms: Bobagomi and Bobagomi Online.
The game involves at least two, but up to six, players, and in a...
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| 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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| 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 icefall, frozen waterfall, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice...
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| Racquetball |
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Olympic sport | Racquet |
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 the sport afterward in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to the game to...
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| Squash |
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Computer Game Genre | Racquet |
Squash is a racquet sport that was formerly called squash racquets, a reference to the "squashable" soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its parent game Racquets (or rackets; see below)). The game is played by two...
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| Road bicycle racing | Racing bicycle |
Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on roads (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycle. The term 'road racing' is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously (unless riding a...
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| Mountain biking |
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Person | Mountain bike |
Mountain biking entails the sport of riding bicycle off-road, often over rough terrain, whether riding specially equipped mountain bike or hybrid road bikes. Most mountain bikes share similar characteristics that underscore durability and...
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| Outdoor activity | Bicycle | ||||
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| Netball |
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Olympic sport |
Netball is a non-contact generally indoor sport similar to, and derived from, basketball. It is usually known as a women's sport. It was originally known in its country of origin, the United States, as "women's basketball". Invented in 1895 by Clara...
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| 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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| 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. Note that Team Handball is distinctly different and can be found by following the disambiguation...
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