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  2. Variations of kabaddi - Wikipedia

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    A raid where no points are scored by the raider is referred to as an "empty raid". By contrast, a play where the raider scores three or more points is referred to as a "super raid". If a team gets all seven players on the opposing team out ("All Out"), they earn two additional points and then all the opposition players are placed back in the game.

  3. List of sports idioms - Wikipedia

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    The term is based on the practice of changing a play right before the play is run in American football. [4] carry the ball American football, rugby, etc: To take charge, to assume responsibility. In some ball games (for example American or Canadian football, rugby, etc.), the ball can be carried to advance toward a goal.

  4. List of sports - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. Team sport - Wikipedia

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    Cricket is a popular team sport played at international level Ice hockey, a popular winter team sport Bandy is a popular Nordic winter team sport. A team sport is a type of sport where the fundamental nature of the game or sport requires the participation of multiple individuals working together as a team, and it is inherently impossible or highly impractical to execute the sport as a single ...

  6. Sport of athletics - Wikipedia

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    The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country.

  7. History of sport - Wikipedia

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    Study of the history of sport can teach lessons about social changes and about the nature of sport itself, as sport seems involved in the development of basic human skills (compare play). [ citation needed ] As one delves further back in history, dwindling evidence makes theories of the origins and purposes of sport more and more difficult to ...

  8. Tug of war - Wikipedia

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    Tug of war video from Kerala, India. Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.

  9. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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    In baseball a triple play is the rare act of making three outs during the same continuous play. The OED attributes the original usage of "triple play" to the American game of baseball as early as 1869. [130] headline: "President Obama's Wednesday NYC Triple Play." – Celeste Katz, New York Daily News, 26 April 2011. [131]