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| x Basketball |
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Basketball |
A basketball is an inflated ball used in the game of basketball. 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 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, 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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| x 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. Its use is first mentioned in 1624.
This specialised bat is shaped something like a paddle, consisting of a padded handle similar to - but sturdier than -...
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| x 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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| 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 (dimensions). The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat,...
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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 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...
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| x Épée | Fencing |
The épée (pronounced /ˈɛpeɪ/) 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...
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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 "dry", or...
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| x Burton |
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Burton Snowboards is the world's leading manufacturer of snowboards. Founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977, the company specializes in a product line aimed at snowboarders: snowboards, bindings, boots, outerwear, and accessories.
The company's...
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| x Empacher |
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Rowing |
Empacher (company name Bootswerft Empacher GmbH) is a manufacturer of boats, especially for the sport of rowing. Originally building sailing yachts, it was founded by Willy Empacher in 1923 in Königsberg, East Prussia. In 1952 they started producing...
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| x Janousek | Rowing |
Janousek Racing Boats Ltd is a British-based manufacturer of rowing boats. The boats are made of a honeycomb-sandwich laminate and Janousek was one of the first rowing boat makers in the world to offer this method of rowing boat construction....
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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 | |||
| 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 specific ball properties...
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| Pocket billiards | |||
| English Billiards | |||
| x Billiards table |
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Pocket billiards |
A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards-type games (cue sports) are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables, regardless of whether for carom billiards,...
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| Nine Ball | |||
| English Billiards | |||
| x 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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| x Headgear |
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Taekwondo |
Headgear is a padded safety device worn during some activities in martial arts.
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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| x Dobok |
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Taekwondo |
The dobok is the uniform worn by practitioners of Korean martial arts. "Do" means "Way of life" and "Bok" means robe or training clothes. The dobok comes in many colors, though white and black are the most common. The dobok is fashioned after the...
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| x Bicycle |
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Triathlon |
A bicycle, bike, or cycle is a pedal-driven, human-powered vehicle with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist or a bicyclist.
Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now...
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| Cycling | |||
| Track cycling | |||
| Bicycle racing | |||
| Downhill cycling | |||
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| x Cycling shoe |
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Triathlon |
Cycling shoes are shoes 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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| x Swimwear |
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Triathlon |
A swimsuit, bathing suit or swimming costume is an item of clothing designed to be worn while participating in water sports and activities such as swimming, water polo, diving, surfing, water skiing, or for any activity in the sun, such as sun...
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| x Helmet |
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Cycling |
A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries, a variation of the hat. 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...
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| Polo | |||
| x Athletic shoe |
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An athletic shoe is a generic name for footwear designed for sporting 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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| x 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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| x 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. They were invented in Hawaii, where they were known as Papa he‘e...
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| x Frisbee |
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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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| Ultimate | |||
| Freestyle frisbee | |||
| x Shuttlecock |
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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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| x 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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| Tennis | |||
| Racquetball | |||
| Squash | |||
| x Unicycle |
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Mountain unicycling |
A unicycle is a one-wheeled human-powered vehicle. Unicycles are similar to, but less complex than, bicycles.
One theory of the advent of the unicycle is based on the popularity of the penny-farthing (or "Ordinary") during the late 19th century....
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| Unicycling | |||
| Extreme unicycling | |||
| Street unicycling | |||
| x Boomerang |
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boomerang |
A boomerang is a curved piece of wood used as a weapon and for sport. Boomerangs come in many shapes and sizes depending on their geographic or tribal origins and intended function. The most recognizable type is the returning boomerang, which is a...
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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.
Pin specifications for standard tenpins are set by the United States Bowling Congress. Pins are 4.75 inches wide at...
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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 that covers at least the foot and the ankle and sometimes extends up to the knee or even the hip. Most boots 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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| Snowboarding | |||
| 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 a hoofed (ungulate) mammal, a subspecies of one of seven extant 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...
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| Horse racing | |||
| x Mountain bike |
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Mountain biking |
A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated MTB or ATB (all terrain bicycle)) is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling, including jumps, and traversing of rocks and washouts, and steep declines, either on dirt trails, logging roads, or other...
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| x Racing bicycle |
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Road bicycle racing |
A racing bicycle, commonly known as a road bicycle or an urban 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 bicycles.
The...
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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 |
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| x Titleist Pro V1x |
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| x Tennis ball |
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Tennis |
A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis, approximately 6.7 cm (2.7 in.) in diameter and is usually yellow, but in recreational play can be virtually any color.
In the early years of tennis, balls were often made of leather stuffed...
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| x Piton |
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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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| 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 or kletterschuh is a piece 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. Most climbing shoes are very...
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| x Rope |
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Rock Climbing |
A rope is a length of fibers, 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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| 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 (eg 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' or 'racing track') is a purpose-built facility for racing of animals (eg. horse racing or greyhound racing), automobiles, motorcycles or athletes. A race track may also feature grandstands or concourses. Some motorsport...
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| x Swim cap | Synchronized swimming |
A swim cap, or bathing cap, is a silicone, latex or lycra cap worn on the head by recreational and competitive swimmers.
Caps are worn to keep the hair relatively dry or free of chlorinated water, and keep water out of the ears when worn with ear...
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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 eye area in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes. They are used in chemistry laboratories and in woodworking. They are...
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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 race 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 | |||
| x Sailboard | Windsurfing | ||
| x Chessboard |
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Chess boxing |
A chessboard is the type of checkerboard used in the game of 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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