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Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and among Highland migrants to the major cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, [2] [3] [4] and was even played in Northern England into the second half of the 20th century [5] [4] and other areas in the world where ...
Cuju or Ts'u-chü (蹴鞠) is an ancient Chinese football game, that resembles a mix of basketball, association football and volleyball. [1] [2] FIFA cites cuju is the earliest form of a kicking game for which there is documentary evidence, a military manual from the Han dynasty.
The Millrose Games are an annual indoor athletics (track & field) meet held each February in New York City. Among the world's most prestigious indoor track meets, the games started taking place at the Armory in Washington Heights in 2012, after having taken place in Madison Square Garden from 1914 to 2011.
Kemari field at Kyoto Imperial Palace. It is a non-competitive sport. [7] The object of Kemari is to keep one ball in the air, [2] with all players cooperating to do so. Players may use any body part with the exception of arms and hands: their head, feet, knees, back, and depending on the rules, elbows to keep the ball aloft.
Special locations in the play area allow humans to query the game state (such as flag status) using binary messages. In 1992, Richard Carr released an MS-DOS based game called Capture the Flag. [11] It is a turn-based strategy game with real time network / modem play (or play-by-mail) based around the traditional
While off limits to the public on a game day, its “Grand Lobby” often opens on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to allow visitors a chance to view the dazzling artifacts and trophies.
The aim of the game – never let the ball touch the ground. In relation to the 1857 sketch, Historian Greg de Moore commented: [17] What I can say for certain is that it's the first image of any kind of football that's been discovered in Australia. It pre-dates the first European images of any kind of football, by almost ten years in Australia.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!