A ball game that is famous in Asia, throwball is played on a rectangular field with a net in between. Each team consists of nine players and two substitutes. Usually, a game consists of 15 points but it could go longer, if already decided at the beginning of the game.
It is a team game played on sand. The game involves 2 teams on either side of the net which divides a rectangular court. The players hit a volley ball, usually using the hands or arms. Players on each team try to hit the ball over the net in such a way that it touches the sand inside the court boundaries, and to prevent the ball from touching the ground on their own side of the court.
It is the sport in which bow and arrows are used. Archery has historically been used in combat and hunting and is a precision sport. A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who is fond of or an expert at archery is sometimes called a toxophilite.
Besides being an important form of recreation, and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey, skating has developed into three different sports—speed skating, figure skating, and ice dancing. All three are now features of the Winter Olympic game. Men and women are allowed to take part in these games.
It is a game in which the rider leads the horse on a course that has a series of jumps the horse is to complete. There are various obstacles that look like fences, and if the horse knocks part of the fence down, or goes around the fence, points are deducted. The rider has an important role to play in winning, choosing the horse’s speed and signalling to the horse when to jump.
It is another famous sport where the object of the game is that two teams comprising fifteen players each, should score as many points as possible, by passing, carrying, kicking and grounding the ball. The team that scores the greater number of points is the winner of the match.
It is a team water sport. A team consists of six field players and one goal keeper. The team that scores more goals wins the game. Water polo is a team water sport requiring an ability to swim. Field players must swim end to end of a 30-meter pool non-stop many times during a game without touching the sides or bottom of the pool.
A challenging recreational sport, Rafting or whitewater rafting makes use of a raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. This game developed as a leisure sport since the mid 1970s.
It is played by men, women and children. Hockey has several regular international tournaments for both men and women. These include the Olympic games, the quadrennial Hockey world cups, the annual Champions Trophies and Junior world cups. Curved sticks and ball are used for the game.
It is a game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end. The aim is to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent’s goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent’s goal posts.