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Parent Topics
- Competition: The activity or condition of competing against others. Ecologically, the interaction between species or organisms which share a limited environmental resource. [e]
- Physical activity: Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. [e]
Related Topics
- Entertainment [r]: Activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. [e]
- Exercise [r]: Regular physical activity that is usually done with the intention of improving or maintaining physical fitness or health. [e]
- Leisure [r]: A period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. [e]
- Recreation [r]: Activities intended to take place during leisure time, for pleasure or amusement, including sports, hobbies or games, especially when not done as part of serious competition or for exercise. [e]
Subtopics
This list is not exhaustive but limited to high priority articles which broaden essential coverage of the subject to enhance the reader's understanding.
- Bowls [r]: Ancient sport in which players roll weighted balls across a green and aim to place their bowl closest to a target ball. [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]
- Canadian football [r]: A variant of American football that is played on a field that is wider and longer and with 12 players on a side. [e]
- Canoeing [r]: Olympic sport which involves racing canoes and kayaks in various disciplines. [e]
- Chess [r]: 2-player board game for a checkered board; requires skill, strategy and intellect; the 1960s 3M Bookshelf game series included a version of Chess [e]
- Climbing [r]: Generic term for multiple disciplines which involve scaling or ascending steep surfaces using hands and feet. [e]
- Cricket [r]: An outdoor bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large grassy field. [e]
- Croquet [r]: A sport using wooden mallets to knock balls across a lawn, playable with average strength, speed, agility and endurance, barefoot or in any kind of shoes including high heels. [e]
- Cross-country skiing [r]: Skiing across flat or rolling country, as distinguished from downhill skiing; one of the major winter sports in northern and alpine climes. [e]
- Cue sports [r]: A group of table sports including billiards, pool and snooker in which each player uses a long, tapering wooden rod (a cue) for striking the balls. [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]
- Dinghy racing [r]: Competitive sport for small boats under sail and, with yacht racing, one of the two main divisions in the sport of sailing. [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]
- Downhill racing [r]: In alpine skiing, contestants take turns to race down a mountain slope on skis; they race individually against the clock and the fastest time wins. [e]
- Dressage [r]: From the French dresser (to train), an equestrian competition in which points are awarded to the horse and rider for artistic riding style. [e]
- Equestrianism [r]: Sports in which human competitors are on horseback including horse racing, polo, show jumping, and three-day eventing. [e]
- Fencing [r]: A sport of fighting with blunted swords in accordance with set rules in order to score points. [e]
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- Figure skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Football (soccer) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gaelic 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
- Hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Horse racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hurling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ice dancing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ice hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ice skating [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
- Modern pentathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Motor racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Multi-sport events [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Netball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nordic combined skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nordic skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Olympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paralympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pin bowling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Polo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pool [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Racquetball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rowing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby league [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rugby union [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sailing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shinty [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Show jumping [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skateboarding [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skeleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ski jumping [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Slalom skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sledging [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Snooker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Softball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Speed skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Speedway [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Squash [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sumo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Surfing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Swimming [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
- Ten-pin bowling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thai boxing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Three-day eventing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trampolining [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Triathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tug of war [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Volleyball [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Water polo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Water skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yacht racing [r]: Add brief definition or description