Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The sport can either be genuinely competitive or sportive entertainment.
Read MoreWrestling is a combat sport involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The sport can either be genuinely competitive or sportive entertainment.
Read MoreRowing is a sport that it's origins are back to the ancient Egyptians. It is based on simply two materials to row. One of them is a racing shell, which is also known as the boat. Second basic material is that known as oars.
Read MoreSwimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics, it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games. Swimming has the second-highest number of Olympic events (after athletics).
Read MoreVolleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned.
Read MoreA game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court. The usual form (originally called lawn tennis) is played with a felt-covered hollow rubber ball on a grass, clay, or artificial surface.
Read MoreGolf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not utilize a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game.
Read MoreA game usually consists of eight or ten ends. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet toward the house, a circular target marked on the ice.
Read MoreSurfing is the sport of riding waves in an upright or prone position. Surfers catch the ocean, river, or man-made waves and glide across the surface of the water until the wave breaks and loses its energy.
Read MoreThe skating technique is a style of cross-country skiing in which the leg kick is done using the skate stride. This style has established itself as a revolutionary development in cross-country skiing since the mid-1980s and enables faster movement compared to the classic style.
Read MoreA netball game lasts for a regulation 60 minutes. This is split into four quarters, with each quarter lasting 15 minutes. Between the first and second quarter, and the third and fourth quarter, there is an interval of three minutes. Between the second and third quarter -half-time - there is an interval of five minutes.
Read MoreFishing as a sport, however, is of considerable antiquity. The most common form of recreational fishing is done with a rod, reel, line, hooks and any one of a wide range of baits.
Read MoreJavelin throwing is an athletics event in which a javelin is thrown, which is made of regulatory materials such as metal or fiberglass.
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