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- Olympic Games [r]: A quadrennial multi-sport event organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) involving athletes from around the world in both summer and winter sport editions. The summer event was first staged at Athens in 1896 as a revival of the Ancient Olympics; the winter event was first staged at Chamonix in 1924. [e]
- Paralympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
List of sports
- American football [r]: A high-contact sport played by two teams of 11 players on a 100-yard field that originated in the United States of America. [e]
- Association football [r]: (A.k.a. soccer in North America and Australia), a form of football played almost wholly with the feet; it is the world's most popular spectator sport. [e]
- Athletics [r]: The collective term for a group of athletic events in walking, running, jumping or throwing. [e]
- Aquatics [r]: A term for water sports taking place in the water, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming. [e]
- Archery [r]: An individual sport involving shooting at a target using a bow and arrow. [e]
- Badminton [r]: An indoor game in which players on opposite sides of a net hit a shuttlecock with wire-strung racquets. [e]
- Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. [e]
- Famous baseball players [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Basketball [r]: A ball game played between two teams of 5 players, the objective of which is to throw the ball through one of a pair of hoops fixed above each end of the playing court. [e]
- Biathlon [r]: An athletic competition combining the sport activities of cross-country, or Nordic, skiing, and rifle shooting. [e]
- Bobsleigh [r]: Sled racing down an ice-covered run using a sledge which is mechanically steered and braked. There are two-men and four-men versions of the sled. [e]
- Boxing [r]: A combat sport between two opponents in a roped, square ring who attempt to strike each other with fists enclosed in padded gloves. [e]
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Canoeing [r]: Olympic sport which involves racing canoes and kayaks in various disciplines. [e]
- Cricket (sport) [r]: An outdoor bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large grassy field. [e]
- Curling [r]: A game, invented in Scotland, which involves two teams of four players who slide a heavy stone towards a target at the opposite end of a long, narrow sheet of ice. [e]
- Cycling [r]: The sport, recreational activity and means of transportation of riding a bicycle. [e]
- Darts [r]: An indoor game in which flighted missiles called darts are thrown at a dartboard target in order to score points. [e]
- Diving [r]: Sport in which contestants perform acrobatic dives from an elevated board into a pool. Points are awarded by a panel of judges for style and achievement. [e]
- Equestrian [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fencing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Field hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Football [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Golf [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gymnastics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Handball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ice hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Judo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karate [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lacrosse [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Luge [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Martial arts [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mixed Martial Arts [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Modern Pentathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Racquetball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rock climbing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rowing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sailing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Soccer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Softball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Squash (sport) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Table tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Taekwondo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Famous tennis players [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Triathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Volleyball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description