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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Sport.
See also changes related to Sport, or pages that link to Sport or to this page or whose text contains "Sport".

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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]

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