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The Old Course at St Andrews. Sport plays a central role in Scottish culture.The temperate, oceanic climate has played a key part in the evolution of sport in Scotland, with all-weather sports like association football and golf dominating the national sporting consciousness.
Highland games (Scottish Gaelic: geamannan Gàidhealach) is a competitive strength sport with events held in spring and summer in Scotland and several other countries with a large Scottish diaspora as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture, especially that of the Scottish Highlands.
Although the sport is primarily associated with Scotland, a similar exercise, "casting the bar", was popular in England in the 16th century, [3] and similar sports exist around the world, such as stångstörtning in Sweden. [4] The record for most caber tosses in three minutes is currently held by Scottish teenager Andrew Murphie.
Association football (Scots: fitbaa, Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise) is one of the national sports of Scotland [1] and the most popular sport in the country. [2] There is a long tradition of "football" games in Orkney, Lewis and southern Scotland, especially the Scottish Borders, although many of these include carrying the ball and passing by hand, and despite bearing the name "football" bear ...
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 ...
Scottish people in sports (5 C, 1 P). Scottish sport by decade (19 C) Scottish sport by year (171 C) * Scotland sport-related lists (6 C, 5 P) + Men's sport in ...
Scottish football clubs started to be formed towards the end of the 1860s and 1870s, some in Glasgow introduced to a rudimentary version of the pursuit by men from Callander in Perthshire, [8] this having its roots in traditional Handsel Monday holiday mass-participation games (which also led to the formation of some rugby clubs as efforts were ...
Scottish sportspeople by sport (80 C) A. American football in Scotland (2 C) ... Equestrian sports in Scotland (2 C, 1 P) F. Fencing in Scotland (1 C, 2 P)