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Baseball
Baseball is a
team sport popular in North America, parts of Latin
America, the Caribbean, and East Asia. The modern
game was developed in the United States from an
early bat-and-ball game called rounders. |
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Basketball
Basketball is a
sport in which two teams of five players each try to
score points on one another by throwing a ball
through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. |
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American Football
American
football, known in the United States and Canada
simply as football, is a competitive team sport. The
object of the game is to score points by advancing
the football into the opposing team's end zone. |
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Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a
sport involving the performance of sequences of
movements requiring physical strength, flexibility,
and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings,
handstands, and forward rolls. |
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Ice Hockey
Ice hockey,
referred to simply as hockey in Canada and the
United States, is a team sport played on ice. The
most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Czech
Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the
United States.
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Skiing
Alpine skiing (or
downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and
sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with
long, thin skis attached to each foot. |
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Soccer
Football (also
known as association football or soccer) is a team
sport played between two teams, of 11 players each,
and is widely considered to be the most popular
sport in the world. |
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Tennis
Tennis is a game
played between either two players ("Singles") or two
teams of two players ("doubles"). Players use a
stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball
covered with felt over a net into the opponent's
court. |
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Track and Field
Athletics, also
known as track and field or track and field
athletics, is a collection of sports events that
involve running, throwing and jumping. The name is
derived from the Greek word "athlon" meaning
"contest". |
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Volleyball
Volleyball is an
Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high
net use their hands, arms, or (rarely) other parts
of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over
the net. |
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Did you know?
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- All athletes competed in the nude in the
Olympics of ancient Greece.
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