Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sports Day (British English & Canadian English), field days (American English), or play days (Canadian English) are events staged by many schools and offices in which people participate in competitive sporting activities, often with the aim of winning trophies or prizes. Though they are often held at the beginning of summer, they are also ...
Octathlon, combined track and field event featured at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics; Throws pentathlon, a championship combined track and field event at the World Masters Athletics Championships; Fierljeppen, Frisian sport of pole vaulting for distance; Softball throw, athletics event throwing for distance using a softball
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Ball sports fall within many sport categories, some sports within multiple categories, including: Bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball. Invasion games, such as football and basketball. Net and wall games, such as volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce.
Sports Day was established since the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was held in 1964 The first Health and Sports Day was held on October 10, 1966, two years after the 1964 Summer Olympics . October was chosen for the unusually late Summer Olympics to avoid the Japanese rainy season , and Health and Sports Day continues to be one of the ...
Kronum [8] – a field sport mixing elements of association football, handball and basketball; N. Nashball – a field sport mixing elements of association football, fistball, basketball, ultimate frisbee, and volleyball using horizontal end zone goals and strict no open-hand contact and strike. P. Padbol - A hybrid of soccer, volleyball ...
The sports in this category usually have individuals, rather than teams, as participants, although it is possible to create a team competition in any sport by combining the results of several individual competitors or by having team members take turns to play.
National Sports Day is a national holiday in Qatar, held annually on the second Tuesday in February, with the main objective is promoting fitness and well-being and a healthy lifestyle among its population, residents and visitors alike, through a variety of activities. [9] The first National Sports Day was held in 2012. [10] [11]