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The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport responsible for the regulation of tournaments and approaching fair play. Five regional confederations are associated with the BWF, the rest are unaffiliated, or are minor in comparison.
Both dieting and physical activity play a critical role in maintaining healthy body weight, or maintaining successful weight loss. [10] Physical activity helps control weight by using excess calories that would otherwise be stored as fat. Most activities burn calories, including sleeping, breathing, and digesting food. Balancing the calories ...
Most card games are played with a pack of 52 playing cards, which are divided equally into four suits: spades, clubs, hearts and diamonds. Each suit has the numbers 2 to 10 followed by the picture cards – Jack, Queen and King – and the ace with a single pip. In some games the ace is treated as a 1, in others as better than a king.
Adapted physical education is a sub-discipline of physical education with a focus on including students with disabilities into the subject. [118] APE is the term used to refer to the physical education for individuals with disabilities that occurs primarily in elementary and secondary schools. [ 89 ]
Article 2 - Physical education, physical activity and sport can yield a wide range of benefits to individuals, communities and society at large Article 11 - Physical education, physical activity and sport can play an important role in the realization of development, peace and post-conflict and post-disaster objectives
Two people playing jianzi A traditional jianzi A group playing jianzi in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park. Jianzi (Chinese: 毽子; pinyin: jiànzi), [Note 1] is a traditional Chinese sport in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their bodies apart from the hands, unlike in similar games such as peteca and indiaca.
Para-badminton is a variant of badminton for athletes with a range of physical disabilities. Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the main governing body for para-badminton starting from June 2011. The sport was governed by Para Badminton World Federation (PBWF) until a unanimous decision to join BWF during a meeting in Dortmund in June 2011.
Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreation. [1] Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds.