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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, Australian rules, American football...
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| Finswimming | Sport |
Finswimming is the progression of a swimmer using monofins or normal fin (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 competition...
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| Roller sport | Sport |
Roller sports are sports that use roller skates or similar. The international governing body is the International Roller Sports Federation (FIRS).
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| Surfing |
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Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried along the face of a breaking wave, most commonly using a surfboard, although wave-riders may make use of kneeboards, body boards (aka boogie boards), kayak, surf ski, and their own...
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| Powerboating | Sport |
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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| Netball |
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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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| Korfball |
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Korfball is a team ball game, similar in many ways to mixed netball. It is played in over fifty countries. The countries with the most players are the Netherlands and Belgium. Korfball differs from other team sports in that it is a mixed-gender...
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| Bowling |
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Bowling is a sport in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface called the lane into objects called pins. There are many forms of bowling, with the earliest dating back to ancient Egypt, while other...
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| Polo |
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Polo is a team sport played outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score goal against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a white wooden or plastic ball (size 3–3.5 inches, weight 4.25–4.75 ounces) into the opposing team's goal...
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| Contract bridge |
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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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| Golf |
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Golf is a sport in which a player, using many types of clubs including a driver, a putter, and irons, hits a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a...
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| Squash |
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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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| Tug of war |
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For the Gladiators event, see Tug-o-War (Gladiators).Tug of war, tug o' war, or tug war, also known as rope pulling, is a sport that directly puts two teams against each other in a test of strength.
The term may be used as a simile to describe a...
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| Bandy |
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Bandy is a winter sport, where a ball is hit with a stick. It shares a common ancestry with ice hockey, in that it likely developed from the informal "ball and stick on ice" games known collectively as shinny. As such, the game is played outdoors on...
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| Water skiing |
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Water skiing 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 wearing one or more skis. The surface area of the ski (or skis) keeps the person skimming on the...
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| Karate |
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or is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenpō. It is primarily a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands and ridge-hands....
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| Mountaineering |
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Mountaineering is the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountain. It is also sometimes known as alpinism, particularly in Europe. While it began as an all-out attempt to reach the highest point of unclimbed...
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| Billiards |
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Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports) are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard ball, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .
Historically, the...
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| Sumo |
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is a competitive contact sport where two wrestler (rikishi) attempt to force one another out of a circular ring (dohyo) or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it...
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| DanceSport | Sport |
DanceSport denotes dance as a sport activity. Initially this term was applied to competitive ballroom dancing, in its International Style.
The sport has 3 major governing bodies: The International DanceSport Federation (IDSF), the World Dance...
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| Racquetball |
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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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| Pilota |
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Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan, or pelote in French (from Latin pila) is a name for a variety of court sport played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat (pala), or a basket propulsor, against a wall (frontón in...
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| Chess |
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Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variant, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe...
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| Boules |
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Boules (French ) is a collective name for games played with metal balls.Boules is very popular in France.
Two of the most played boule games are pétanque and boule lyonnaise.The aim of the game is to get large, heavy, balls as close to the small, ...
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| Motorcycle racing |
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Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sport aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.
Motorcycle racing (also known as Moto...
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| Wushu |
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Wushu, also known as modern wushu or contemporary wushu, is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was created in the People's Republic of China after 1949, in an attempt to nationalize the...
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| Orienteering |
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Orienteering is a sport that combines racing with navigation using a map and compass. The oldest form (sometimes referred to as "Foot Orienteering" or "Foot-O") involves cross-country running, though other forms have evolved. The competition is a...
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