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Physical Education
Sports
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Volleyball | a game for two teams, usually of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court. |
| Softball | a modified form of baseball played on a smaller field with a larger ball, seven rather than nine innings, and underarm pitching. The game evolved during the late 19th century from a form of indoor baseball. |
| Basketball | a game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed above each end of the court. |
| Golf | game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small holes in the ground, the object being to use the fewest possible strokes to complete the course. |
| Tennis | a 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. |
| Tchoukball | is an indoor team sport developed in the 1970s by Swiss biologist Hermann Brandt. The sport is usually played on an indoor court measuring 27 metres by 16 metres. |
| Badminton | a game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is played back and forth across a net. |
| Football | a form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron. |
| Baseball | a ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia. |
| Lacrosse | a team game, originally played by North American Indians, in which the ball is thrown, caught, and carried with a long-handled stick having a curved L-shaped or triangular frame at one end with a piece of shallow netting in the angle. |
| Water Polo | a seven-a-side game played by swimmers in a pool, with a ball like a volleyball that is thrown into the opponent's net. |
| Field Hockey | a game played between two teams of eleven players who use hooked sticks to drive a small hard ball toward goals at opposite ends of a field. |
| Hand Ball | a game similar to squash in which a ball is hit with the hand in a walled court. |
| Ice Hockey | a fast contact sport played on an ice rink between two teams of six skaters, who attempt to drive a small rubber disk (the puck) into the opposing goal with hooked or angled sticks. It developed in Canada in the 19th century. |
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