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Pages in category "Sports originating in Scotland" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Hurling is a close relative of the indigenous Scottish sport of shinty, and there is an annual international between Scotland's shinty players and Ireland's hurlers, using composite rules. The traditional forms of hurling played in Counties Antrim and Donegal , where many of Scotland's Irish immigrants originate from, were closest to Scottish ...
Although many hurling clubs exist worldwide, only Ireland has a national team (although it includes only players from weaker counties in order to ensure matches are competitive). It and the Scotland shinty team have played for many years with modified match rules (as with International Rules Football). The match is the only such international ...
The sport was often played on frozen rivers although purpose-built ponds were later created in many Scottish towns. [19] For example, the Scottish poet David Gray describes whisky-drinking curlers on the Luggie Water at Kirkintilloch. [20] [21] Curling on Lake of Menteith from 2010. The last official Grand Match was held here in 1979. [22]
History of sport in Scotland by team (2 C) C. History of Scottish cricket (2 C) D. Defunct sports clubs and teams in Scotland (5 C, 3 P)
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 ...
The exact origins of the sport of golf are unclear. The most widely accepted theory is that the modern game of golf originated in Scotland in the High Middle Ages. [17] The first golf courses and clubs were established in the country. [18] The first written rules originated in Scotland, as did the establishment of the 18-hole course.
The game originated as a form of rugby football played in rivers and lakes in England and Scotland with a ball constructed of India rubber, probably from the 1850s onwards. This ‘water rugby’ came to be called ‘water polo’ based on the English pronunciation of the Tibetan Balti language word pulu, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] which means ‘ball’.