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| Basketball |
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Basketball |
A basketball is an inflated spherical ball used in the game of basketball and its variations. Basketballs typically range in size from very small promotional items possibly only a few inches in diameter to extra large balls nearly a foot in diameter...
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| Baseball bat |
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Baseball |
A baseball bat is a smooth wooden or metal club used in the game of baseball to hit the ball after the ball is thrown by the pitcher. It is no more than 2.75 inches in diameter at the thickest part and no more than 42 inches (1067 mm) in length. It...
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| Football helmet |
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College football |
A football helmet is a protective device used primarily in American football and Canadian football, the modern hard plastic version of which was created by Paul Brown. It consists of a hard plastic top with thick padding on the inside, a facemask...
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| Cricket bat |
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Cricket |
A cricket bat is used by batsmen in the sport of cricket. It is usually made of willow wood.
This specialised bat is shaped something like a paddle, consisting of a padded handle similar to - but sturdier than - that of a tennis racquet, which is...
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| Cricket ball |
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Cricket |
A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket.
Cricket balls are made from a core of cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. The covering is constructed of four...
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| Wicket | Cricket |
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:
Primarily, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch (dimensions). The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat,...
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| Sabre |
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Fencing |
The sabre or saber (see spelling differences) is a kind of sword that usually but not always has a curved, single-edged blade and a rather large hand guard, covering the knuckles of the hand as well as the thumb and forefinger. Although sabres are...
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| Épée | Fencing |
The épée is the modern derivative of the original duelling sword, the rapier, used in sport fencing. Épée is French for "sword".
The weapon is similar to a foil (compared to a sabre), but has a stiffer blade that is V-shaped in cross-section, has...
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| Foil |
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Fencing |
A foil is a type of weapon used in fencing. It is the most common weapon in terms of usage in competition, and is usually the choice for elementary classes for fencing in general.
There are two varieties of foil in use today. The dry, or...
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| Burton |
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Company | Snowboarding |
Burton Snowboards is the world's leading manufacturer of snowboard. Founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977, the company specializes in a product line aimed at snowboarders: hard goods, outerwear, and accessories.
Aside from selling goods under...
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| Empacher |
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Company | Rowing |
Empacher (company name Bootswerft Empacher GmbH) is a manufacturer of boats, especially for the sport of rowing. Originally building sailing yacht, it was founded by Willy Empacher in 1923 in Königsberg, East Prussia. In 1952 they started producing...
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| Janousek | Rowing |
Janousek Racing is a British-based manufacturer of rowing boats. The boats are made of a honeycomb-sandwich laminate and were one of the first rowing boat makers in the world to offer this method of rowing boat construction to customers. Janousek...
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| Snooker table | Snooker |
A standard tournament snooker table measures 3569mm by 1778mm (11ft 8.5in by 5ft 10in). The height from the floor to the top of the cushion is between 851mm and 876mm (2ft 9.5in and 2ft 10.5in).
A snooker table has six pockets, one at each corner...
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| Cue stick |
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Snooker |
A cue stick (or simply cue, or more specifically pool cue, snooker cue, or billiards cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the . Cues are tapered...
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| Billiard ball |
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Snooker |
Billiard balls are used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various specific ball properties such as hardness,...
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| Billiards table |
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Nine Ball |
A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards-type games are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables, regardless of whether for carom billiards, pocket...
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| Hogu |
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Taekwondo |
A hogu is the armour worn by practitioners of Taekwondo during sparring. Translated into English, hogu means chest or chest protector. The hogu has been used in World Taekwondo Federation sparring since the 1950s and is considered the most important...
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| Headgear |
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Taekwondo |
Headgear is a padded safety device worn during some activities in martial art.
Headgear is used in Amateur and Olympic boxing. It effectively protects against cuts, scrapes, and swelling, but does not protect very well against concussions. Some...
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| Dobok |
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Taekwondo |
The do bohk is the uniform worn by practitioners of Korean martial arts. "Do" means "Way of life" and "Bohk" means robe or training clothes. The do bohk comes in many colors, though white and black are the most common. The do bohk is fashioned after...
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| Bicycle |
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Privately Owned Vehicle | Triathlon |
The bicycle, cycle, or bike is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.
Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number about one billion worldwide. They are the principal means of...
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| Cycling shoe |
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Triathlon |
Cycling shoes are shoe designed for cycling. They come in a variety of designs depending on the type and intensity of the cycling for which they are intended. Key features include: rigidity, for more-efficient transfer of power from the cyclist to...
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| Swimsuit |
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Triathlon |
A swimsuit, bathing suit or swimming costume is an item of clothing designed to be worn for swimming. In New Zealand English and some areas of Australian English, swimsuits are usually called togs. This term is less common in other parts of the...
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| Helmet |
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Cycling |
A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries. The oldest use of helmets was by Ancient Greek soldiers, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from sword blows and arrow. In the 2000s,...
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| Athletic shoe |
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Garment | Berlin Marathon |
An athletic shoe is a generic name for footwear designed for sport and physical activities, and is different in style and build than a dress shoe.
Athletic shoes, depending on the location and the actual type of footwear, can also go by the name...
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| Wakeboard | Wakeboarding |
A wakeboard is a board used for wakeboarding.
Rocker is the bend in a wakeboard from tip to tail. There are two types of rocker: continuous and three-stage. A continuous rocker is a smooth curve that does not change from tip to tail, while a three...
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| Surfboard |
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Surfing |
Surfboards are elongated platforms used in the sport of surfing. They are relatively light, but strong enough to support an individual standing on them while riding a breaking wave. Like the sport itself, they were invented in Hawaii, where they...
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| Frisbee |
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Quotation Subject | Disc golf |
Flying discs (commonly called Frisbees) are disc-shaped objects, which are generally plastic and roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8–10 inches) in diameter, with a lip. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating...
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| Shuttlecock |
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Sport | Badminton |
A shuttlecock is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen overlapping goose feathers embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather.
The...
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| Racquet |
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Badminton |
A racquet (or racket) is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton. Collectively...
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| Unicycle |
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Mountain unicycling |
A unicycle is a one-wheeled human-powered vehicle. Unicycles are similar to, but less complex than, bicycle.
The unicycle's history began before the invention of the bicycle. The Comte De Gaye first developed unicycles during the late 18th century....
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| Boomerang |
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boomerang |
A boomerang is a simple implement used for various purposes. It is primarily associated with Australian Aborigine, but has been found amongst peoples of North East Africa, Sardinia, Arizona, southern California Native Americans, and in India. The...
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| Bowling pin |
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Bowling |
Bowling pins are the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games including tenpins, five-pins, duck.flapins, and candlepins.
Pin specifications for standard tenpins are set by the United States Bowling Congress. Pins are 4.75 inches wide...
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| polo ball | Polo | |||
| Boot |
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Garment | Polo |
A boot is a type of shoe that covers at least the foot and the ankle and sometimes extends up to the knee or even the hip. Most have a heel that is clearly distinguishable from the rest of the sole, even if the two are made of one piece....
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| Goalpost | Polo |
On the sport field, goalposts are posts between which players must carry, kick or pass a ball or similar object in order to score points, or simply a goal. In many games, at each end of the field of play, there are two vertical posts (or uprights)...
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| Horse |
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Organism Classification | Polo |
The horse (Equus caballus) is an odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of eight living species of the family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today....
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| Mountain bike |
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Cycle Genre | Mountain biking |
A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated MTB or ATB (all terrain bicycle)) is a bicycle designed for mountain biking, either on dirt trail or other unpaved environments. In contrast, road bicycle are not designed for such rugged terrain.
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| Racing bicycle |
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Cycle Genre | Road bicycle racing |
A racing bicycle is a bicycle designed for road cycling according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI rules were altered in 1934 to exclude recumbent bicycle.
The two most important things about a racing bicycle are...
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| Snorkel |
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| Swimfin |
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Bog snorkelling |
Swimfins, swim fins, fins or flippers are fin rubber or plastic shoes worn over the foot to aid movement through the water in water sports activities such as swimming, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, kneeboarding, riverboarding, and various types of...
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| Tennis ball |
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Tennis |
A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis, approximately 2.5 inches in diameter and is mostly green but they come in several other colors. Tennis balls are made of 2 components : Rubber and Felt (like the green covering on a poker...
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| Piton | Rock Climbing |
In climbing, a piton (pronounced Pee'-ton, also called a pin or peg) is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the rock with a hammer, and which acts as an anchor to protect the climber against the consequences of a...
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| Belay device | Rock Climbing |
Belay devices are mechanical pieces of climbing equipment used to control a rope during belaying. They are designed to improve belay safety for the climber by allowing the belayer to manage their duties with minimal physical effort. With the right...
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| Climbing shoe |
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Rock Climbing |
A climbing shoe or kletterschuh is a piece of foot wear designed for rock climbing. Typical climbing shoes have a close fit, little if any padding, and a smooth, sticky rubber sole with an extended rubber rand. Most climbing shoes are very...
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| Rope |
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Rock Climbing |
A rope is a length of fiber, twisted or braid together to improve strength for pulling and connecting. It has tensile strength but is too flexible to provide compressive strength (i.e., it can be used for pulling, not pushing). Rope is thicker and...
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| Climbing harness |
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Rock Climbing | ||