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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 aim 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 diamond. Players on the batting...
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| Batting helmet | American League | Boston Red Sox | |||
| Major League Baseball | San Francisco Giants | ||||
| Frontier League | Miami 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, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each...
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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 | LSU Tigers tennis |
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Object...
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| Racquet | LSU Lady Tigers tennis | ||||
| Switzerland Davis Cup team | |||||
| x Ice Hockey |
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National Hockey League | San Jose Sharks |
Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. In regions where it is popular, the game is often referred to simply as hockey. The game is played...
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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 is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as...
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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 |
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries,...
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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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German Curling Association | Canadian Curling Team |
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four rings. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished...
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| x Luge |
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United States Luge Team |
A Luge ( /ˈluːʒ/) 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. Racing sleds weigh...
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| Austrian Luge Team | |||||
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| x Cycling |
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Bicycle | SL Benfica |
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists. Apart from ordinary two-wheeled bicycles, cycling also includes riding unicycles,...
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| Bicycle helmet | Wonderful Pistachios | ||||
| Drapac Professional Cycling | |||||
| x Shinty |
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Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being...
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| x Jai alai |
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Jai alai ( /ˈhaɪ.əlaɪ/; Basque: [ˈxai aˈlai]) is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space. It is a variety of Basque Pelota. The term, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton (the open-walled playing...
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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 a team sport in which two teams of six 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. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer...
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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 by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.
As in indoor volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the...
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| x Cricket |
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Wicket | Australian Domestic Cricket | Australian cricket team |
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to...
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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 |
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union. See comparison of rugby league and rugby union.
Rugby football developed from a...
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| Guinness Premiership | |||||
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| x Skiing |
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United States Ski Team |
Skiing is a way of traveling over snow, using skis strapped to one's feet. In modern times it has been mostly an athletic activity. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding. Commonly, ski poles or "stocks...
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| French Ski Team | |||||
| Andorra Ski Team | |||||
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| x Cross-country skiing |
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Andorra Cross-country skiing Team |
Cross-country skiing (or XC skiing) is a form of ski touring in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles which is popular in many places with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada, and...
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| x Powerlifting |
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Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but...
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| x Australian rules football |
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VFL/AFL | East Fremantle Football Club |
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules (and in some regions called—erroneously—AFL, after the Australian Football League, the only fully professional Australian rules football...
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| Australian Football League | Melbourne University Football Club | ||||
| South Australian National Football League | Lefroy Football Club | ||||
| Ontario Australian Football League | Sandy Bay Football Club | ||||
| Tiwi Islands Football League | Cananore Football Club | ||||
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| x Rock Climbing |
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Piton |
Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing...
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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. Joseph Sobek is credited with inventing the modern sport of racquetball in 1950 (the...
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| x Squash |
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Racquet |
Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players (or in doubles 4 players on court at a time) 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...
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| x Road bicycle racing |
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Racing bicycle | UCI ProTour | Team Astana |
Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously (unless riding a handicap event) with the winner being the first to...
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| Bicycle helmet | UCI Professional Continental Tour | Team HTC-Columbia | |||
| Groupset | Team Sky | ||||
| Team RadioShack | |||||
| Team Saxo Bank-SunGard | |||||
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| x Mountain biking |
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Mountain bike |
Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and...
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| x Netball |
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Netball Super League | Uganda national netball team |
Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960, international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the...
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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 |
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American handball (known in the United States simply as handball) is a sport in which players use their hands to hit a small rubber ball against a wall so that it bounces off in such a way that their opponent cannot return it. There are three...
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| x Running |
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Nike Free |
Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground. This is in...
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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 event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate...
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| Cycling shoe | Triathlon Verein Berlin | ||||
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| 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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Robinson College Boat Club |
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on 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...
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| Heilbronner Rudergesellschaft "Schwaben" 1879 e.V. | |||||
| x Swimming |
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Swimwear | Västerås SS |
Swimming is a water based sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA).
Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago....
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| Norrköpings KK | |||||
| Kenyon Men's Swimming | |||||
| x Gymnastics |
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Mat | Michigan Wolverines women's gymnastics |
Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG...
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| x Hurling |
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Fullen Gaels |
Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht/Iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and is thought to be the world's...
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| Saint Saviours GAA Club | |||||
| Milwaukee Hurling Club | |||||
| Ballygunner GAA | |||||
| Broadford GAA | |||||
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| x Snowboarding |
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Snowboard | U.S. Snowboarding Team |
Snowboarding is a winter sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow while standing on a board attached to a rider's feet, using a special boot set onto a mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by...
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| Snowboardboot | Australia Snowboarding Team | ||||
| Slovenia Snowboarding Team | |||||
| Czech Republic Snowboarding Team | |||||
| x Tetherball |
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Tetherball is a North American game for two opposing players. The equipment consists of a stationary metal pole, from which is hung a volleyball from a rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each player tries to hit...
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| x Roller derby |
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Rat City Rollergirls | Derby Liberation Front |
Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matchups ("jams") in which both teams designate a scoring player (the "jammer") who...
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| x Skateboarding |
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Skateboard |
Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. Skateboarding can also be considered a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and...
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| x Lacrosse |
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Lacrosse stick | Western Lacrosse Association | New Westminster Salmonbellies |
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of...
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| National Lacrosse League | Long Island Lizards | ||||
| American Lacrosse League | Dutch National Lacrosse Team | ||||
| Major League Lacrosse | Rochester Rattlers | ||||
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| x Polo |
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Horse | Tramontana |
Polo (Persian: چوگان, chowgan) is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was started by Persians and was popular till 1979 which declined...
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| polo stick | White Birch | ||||
| polo ball | Ellerstina | ||||
| Boot | La Dolfina | ||||
| kneepads | La Aguada | ||||
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| x Water polo |
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División de Honor de Waterpolo |
Water polo, or Water ball, is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores the most goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water (using a sort of kicking...
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| FINA Water Polo World League | |||||
| x Surfing |
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Surfboard | Association of Surfing Professionals |
Surfing is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave, which is carrying the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing are found primarily in the ocean, but are also sometimes found in...
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| x Diving |
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Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non...
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| x Caving |
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Helmet |
Caving—also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland—is the recreational pastime of exploring wild (generally non-commercial) cave systems. In contrast, speleology is the scientific study...
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| x Jump rope |
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Jump rope (American English) or skipping rope (British English) 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...
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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 Human powered vehicles which utilize rolling either by gravity or various pushing techniques. Typically ball bearings and polyurethane wheels are used for momentum and traction respectively, and attached to devices...
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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. Also, the shape of the...
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| x Korfball |
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Korfball (Dutch: Korfbal) is a mixed gender team sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. A team consists of eight players; four female and four male. A team also includes a coach. It was founded in the Netherlands in 1902 by Nico...
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| x Bowling |
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Bowling pin |
Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule
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| x Golf |
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Golf club | PGA Tour | Wake Forest Demon Deacons women's golf |
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.
It is one of the few ball games that does not require a...
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| Golf ball | PGA European Tour | ||||
| Tee | Asian PGA Tour | ||||
| Putter | Japan PGA Tour | ||||
| Wood | Korea PGA Tour | ||||
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| x Tug of war |
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Tug of war, also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war is a sport that directly pits 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...
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| x Bandy |
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Västerås SK Bandy |
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same...
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| x Water skiing |
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Water skiing is a sport where an individual is typically pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation on a body of water, skimming the surface.
Water skiing began in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson used two boards as skis and a clothesline as a tow...
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| x Karate |
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Karate (空手) ( /kəˈrɑːtiː/; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɽate] ( listen)) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed partially from indigenous fighting methods called te (手, literally "hand"; Tii in...
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| x Mountaineering |
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Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed big mountains it has branched into specializations that...
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| x Billiards |
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Billiards table |
Cue sports (sometimes written 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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| x Sumo |
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Sumo (相撲, sumō) is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler (rikishi) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan,...
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