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| x Basketball |
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Basketball |
A basketball is a spherical inflated ball used in the game of basketball. Basketballs typically range in size from very small promotional items only a few inches in diameter to extra large balls nearly a foot in diameter used in training exercises...
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| x 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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| x Football helmet |
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College football |
A football helmet is a protective device used primarily in American football and Canadian football. It consists of a hard plastic top with thick padding on the inside, a face mask made of one or more rubber coated metal bars, and a chinstrap. Some...
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| x Cricket bat |
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Cricket |
A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batsmen in the sport of cricket to hit the ball. It is usually made of willow wood. Its use is first mentioned in 1624.
The blade of a cricket bat is a wooden block that is generally flat on...
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| x Cricket ball |
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Cricket |
A cricket ball is a hard, solid ball used to play cricket. A cricket ball consists of wood covered by leather, and manufacture is heavily regulated by cricket law at first class level. The manipulation of a cricket ball, through employment of its...
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| x Wicket | Cricket |
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:
Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat, attempts to...
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| x Sabre |
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Fencing |
The sabre or saber (see spelling differences) is a kind of backsword that usually 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 typically...
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| x Épée | Fencing |
The épée ( /ˈɛpeɪ/) is the modern derivative of the dueling sword, the smallsword (itself descended from the rapier, used in sport fencing). Épée is French for "sword".
As a thrusting weapon the épée is similar to a foil (compared to a sabre), but...
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| x 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 nonelectric foil,...
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| x 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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| x Cue stick |
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Snooker |
A cue stick (or simply cue, 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 cue ball. Cues are tapered...
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| Pocket billiards | |||
| English Billiards | |||
| Nine Ball | |||
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| x Billiard ball |
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Snooker |
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball 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 particular ball...
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| English Billiards | |||
| Billiards | |||
| x Billiards table |
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Pocket billiards |
A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which billiards-type games (cue sports) are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried...
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| Nine Ball | |||
| English Billiards | |||
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| x Hogu |
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Taekwondo |
A hogu is the armor 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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| x Headgear |
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Taekwondo |
Headgear is padded helmet worn during sparring in the martial arts.
Headgear is a padded helmet, worn on the head by contestants in Amateur and Olympic boxing. It effectively protects against cuts, scrapes, and swelling, but does not protect very...
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| x Dobok |
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Taekwondo |
Dobok is the uniform worn by practitioners of Korean martial arts. Do means "way" and bok means "clothing." The dobok is modeled on the Japanese gi, used in Judo, which was developed by Kanō Jigorō. The dobok comes in many colours, though white or...
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| x Bicycle |
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Triathlon |
A bicycle, often called a bike (and sometimes referred to as a "pushbike", "pedal bike", "pedal cycle", or "cycle"), is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who...
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| Track cycling | |||
| Bicycle racing | |||
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| x Cycling shoe |
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Triathlon |
Cycling shoes are shoes purpose-built for cycling. There are 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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| x Swimwear |
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Triathlon |
A swimsuit, bathing suit, or swimming costume is an item of clothing designed to be worn by men, women or children while they are engaging in a water-based activity or water sports, such as swimming, water polo, diving, surfing, water skiing, or...
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| x Helmet |
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Caving |
A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries.
Ceremonial or symbolic helmets (e.g., English policeman's helmet) without protective function are sometimes used. The oldest known use of helmets was by Assyrian...
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| x Athletic shoe |
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100m |
Athletic shoe is a generic name for the footwear primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but in recent years has come to be used for casual everyday activities.
They are also known as trainers (British English and Hong Kong...
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| x Wakeboard |
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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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| x Surfboard |
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Surfing |
A surfboard is an elongated platform used in the sport of surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are strong enough to support an individual standing on them while riding a breaking wave. They were invented in Hawaii, where they were known as...
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| x Frisbee |
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Disc golf |
A flying disc is a disc-shaped glider that is generally plastic and roughly 20 to 25 cm (7.9 to 9.8 in) in diameter, with a lip. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air...
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| Freestyle frisbee | |||
| x Shuttlecock |
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Badminton |
A shuttlecock (called bird or birdie in the USA), is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton. It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck and from the left wing only,...
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| x Racquet |
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Badminton |
A racquet or racket (from Arabic rahah, meaning "palm of hand", via Italian) 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...
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| Racquetball | |||
| Squash | |||
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| x Unicycle |
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Mountain unicycling |
A unicycle is a human-powered, single-track vehicle with one wheel. Unicycles resemble bicycles, but are less complex.
One theory of the advent of the unicycle stems from the popularity of the penny-farthing (or "Ordinary") during the late 19th...
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| Unicycling | |||
| Extreme unicycling | |||
| Street unicycling | |||
| x Boomerang |
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boomerang |
A boomerang is a 'V' shaped flying tool that is usually used as a weapon for hunting purposes, usually by tribes. It is also used for sports or for entertainment purposes.
A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device cut from a tree trunk,...
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| x Bowling pin |
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Bowling |
Bowling pins are the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games including tenpins, five-pins, duckpins, and candlepins.
In the US, pin specifications for standard tenpins are set by the United States Bowling Congress. Pins are 4.75 inches...
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| x polo stick | Polo | ||
| x polo ball | Polo | ||
| x Boot |
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Polo |
A boot is a type of footwear and a specific type of shoe. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle and extend up the leg, sometimes as far as the knee or even the hip. Most boots have a heel that is clearly distinguishable from the rest of the...
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| x kneepads | Polo | ||
| x Goalpost | Polo |
On the sporting 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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| x Horse |
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Polo |
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small...
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| x Mountain bike |
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Mountain biking |
A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated MTB) is a bicycle created for off-road cycling. This activity includes traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines, on dirt trails, logging roads, and other unpaved environments—activities...
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| x Racing bicycle |
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Road bicycle racing |
A racing bicycle, also known as a road bike, is a bicycle designed for competitive road cycling, a sport governed by according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The UCI rules were altered in 1934 to exclude recumbent bicycles....
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| x Triathlon bicycle | Triathlon | ||
| x Snorkel |
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Bog snorkelling | |
| x Swimfin |
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Bog snorkelling |
Swimfins, swim fins, fins or flippers are worn on the foot or leg and made from finlike rubber or plastic, to aid movement through the water in water sports activities such as swimming, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, kneeboarding, riverboarding, and...
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| Scuba diving | |||
| x Titleist Pro V1 | |||
| x Titleist Pro V1x | |||
| x Tennis ball |
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Tennis |
A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis, approximately 6.7 cm (2.63 in.) in diameter. Tennis balls are generally bright yellow , but in recreational play can be virtually any color. Tennis balls are covered in a fibrous fluffy felt...
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| x Piton |
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Rock Climbing |
In climbing, a piton ( /ˈpiːtɒn/; 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 fall, or to...
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| Climbing | |||
| x Belay device |
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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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| x Climbing shoe |
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Rock Climbing |
A climbing shoe is a specialized type of footwear 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. Unsuited to walking and hiking, climbing...
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| x Rope |
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Rock Climbing |
A rope is a length of fibres, twisted or braided 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, but not pushing). Rope is thicker...
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| Caving | |||
| Climbing | |||
| Abseiling | |||
| x Climbing harness |
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Rock Climbing |
A climbing harness is a piece of equipment used in certain types of rock-climbing, abseiling or other activities requiring the use of ropes to provide access or safety (e.g. industrial rope access, working at heights, etc.). A harness is used to...
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| x Race track |
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Horse racing |
A race track (or 'racetrack', 'racing track' or 'racing circuit') is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing), automobiles, motorcycles or athletes. A race track may also feature grandstands or...
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| x Swim cap | Synchronized swimming |
A swim cap, swimming cap or bathing cap, is a silicone, latex or lycra cap worn on the head by recreational and competitive swimmers.
Caps are worn for various reasons. Some facilities require the wearing of swim caps, in order to protect filters...
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| x Goggles |
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Synchronized swimming |
Goggles or safety glasses are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the area surrounding the eye in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes. They are used in chemistry laboratories and in...
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| x Nose clips |
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Synchronized swimming |
Nose clips are used to prevent water entering the nose, especially while underwater and inverted.
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| x Formula One car |
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Formula One |
A modern Formula One car is a single-seat, open cockpit, open-wheel racing car with substantial front and rear wings, and an engine positioned behind the driver. The regulations governing the cars are unique to the championship. The Formula One...
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| x Tyres in Formula One |
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Formula One |
Formula One tyres play a significant role in the performance of a Formula One car. The tyres have undergone significant changes throughout the history of Formula One, with different manufacturers and specifications used in the sport.
Formula One...
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| x Volleyball net | Volleyball | ||
| Beach volleyball | |||
| Myachi | |||
| x Sailboard | Windsurfing | ||
| x Chessboard |
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Chess boxing |
A chessboard is the type of checkerboard used in the board game chess, and consists of 64 squares (eight rows and eight columns) arranged in two alternating colors (light and dark). The colors are called "black" and "white" (or "light" and "dark"),...
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| x Boxing gloves |
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Chess boxing |
Boxing gloves are cushioned gloves that fighters wear on their hands during boxing matches. The term also refers to gloves used in training, though these often differ from competition gloves. Modern boxing gloves were developed to protect the hands...
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| x Buoyancy compensator |
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Scuba diving |
A buoyancy compensator (or buoyancy control device, BC or BCD), also called a stabilisor or stab jacket, is a piece of diving equipment containing a bladder which is worn by divers to establish Neutral buoyancy underwater and positive buoyancy on...
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| x Diving mask |
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Scuba diving |
A diving mask (also dive mask or scuba mask) is an item of diving equipment that allows scuba divers, free-divers, and snorkelers to see clearly underwater. When the human eye is in direct contact with water as opposed to air, its normal environment...
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