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Sports
Term | Definition |
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Football | A form of team game played in North America with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron. |
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. |
Dodgeball | A game in which players in a circle try to hit opponents inside the circle, thus eliminating them, with an inflated ball. |
Soccer | A game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. The object of the game is to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opponents' goal. |
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. |
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. |
Track and Field | Athletic events that take place on a running track and a nearby field; track events and field events. |
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. |
Golf | a 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. |