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Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [ 4 ] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.
Stickball was one of the many early sports played by American indigenous people in the early 1700s. Early Native American recreational activities consisted of diverse sporting events, card games, and other innovative forms of entertainment. Most of these games and sporting events were recorded by observations from the early 1700s.
The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Sports (53 C, 7 P) T. Tourist attractions (44 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Recreation" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Leisure studies is a branch of the social sciences that focuses on understanding and analyzing leisure. Recreation and tourism are common topics of leisure research.. The National Recreation and Park Association is the national organization in the United States for leisure studies, and offers accreditation to many universities to offer courses of study (degree programs) in leisure studies.
Sport psychology is the study of how psychological factors can impact engagement in professional and recreational sports, as well as how sports impact an athlete's psychological state. [27] After becoming popular in the early 20th century, it is now a recognized scientific field which is relevant to many different sports. [ 28 ]
Sports which are mainly played indoors or other settings such as fields are able to transition to an outdoor setting for recreational and non-competitive purposes. Outdoor physical activities can help people learn new skills, test stamina and endurance, and participate in social activities. [9] [10]
Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitting only sports meeting this definition. Some organisations, such as the Council of Europe , preclude activities without any physical element from classification as sports.