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American Football BABAB

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. It involves physical exertion and skill by passing, running, or kicking the ball.

OriginUnited States
Focustactics, endurance, physical strength, strategizing
First PlayedNovember 6, 1869
TypeOutdoor
Team sport
Ball game
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Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to propel arrows. It involves shooting arrows at a target for accuracy from a set distance.

OriginLate Stone Age
FocusAccuracy, Precision, Concentration, Control
First PlayedAround 10,000 BC
TypeTarget Archery
Field Archery
3D Archery
Clout Archery
Crossbow Archery
Flight Archery
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Athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

OriginAncient Greece
FocusEndurance, Speed, Strength
First Played776 BC
TypeTrack and Field
Road Running
Race Walking
Cross Country Running
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Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court.

OriginMid-18th century; British India
FocusAgility, Speed, Endurance, Tactics
First PlayedMid-19th century
TypeRacquet Sport
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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat.

OriginUnited States
FocusTactics, Hand-eye coordination, Speed, Flexibility
First Played19th Century
TypeTeam Sport
Bat-and-ball
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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport where two teams, most often consisting of five players each, score points by throwing a spherical ball through the opposing team's hoop.

OriginUnited States
FocusTactics, Endurance, Precision, Speed, Teamwork
First PlayedDecember 1891
TypeTeam Sport
Ball Sport
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Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport invented by the Swiss in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.

OriginSwitzerland
FocusPrecision, Speed, Teamwork
First PlayedLate 19th Century
TypeWinter Sport
Team Sport
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Bowling

Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball toward pins or another target.

OriginAncient Egypt
FocusPrecision and Control
First Played3200 BC
TypeTarget
Recreational
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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.

OriginAncient Greece
FocusTactics, Endurance, Strength, Speed, Agility
First Played3rd Millennium BC
TypeCombat Sport
Olympic Sport
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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players. It is set on a cricket field centred on a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with two wickets.

OriginEngland, late 16th century
FocusTactics, Teamwork, Endurance, Skill
First PlayedLate 16th century, England
TypeTest
One Day International
Twenty20
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Cycling

Cycling is a sport involving the use of bicycles. It is a widely practiced physical activity that can be done for recreation, transportation, or competitive sport.

OriginEurope
FocusEndurance
First Played19th Century
TypeRoad Cycling
Track Cycling
Mountain Bike Racing
Cyclo-cross
BMX
Time Trial
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Darts

Darts is a sport in which small missiles are thrown at a circular target (dartboard) fixed to a wall. It's usually a competitive game in which two or more players bare off against each other.

OriginUnited Kingdom
FocusPrecision, Accuracy, Tactics
First Played19th Century
TypePrecision sports
Target sports
Pub games
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Equestrian

Equestrianism, more often known as horse riding or horseback riding, refers to the skill and sport of riding, driving, steeplechasing or vaulting with horses.

OriginAncient Greece
FocusControl, precision, endurance
First PlayedAs early as 680 BC in the Olympic Games
TypeDressage
Show Jumping
Eventing
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Fencing

Fencing is a sport in which two competitors fight using 'rapier-style' swords, winning points by making contact with their opponent.

OriginSpain
FocusStrategy, Agility, Quick Reflexes
First PlayedModern fencing first played in the 18th century
TypeIndividual
Team
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Football

OriginEngland
FocusFootball
First PlayedFootball
TypeTeam Sport
Ball Game
Outdoor
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