Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A sports venue is a building, structure, or place in which a sporting competition is held. A stadium (plural: stadiums or stadia) [ 1 ] or arena is a place or venue for sports or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
The larger Roman Baths often had attached fitness facilities, the baths themselves sometimes being decorated with mosaics of local champions of sport. Gyms in Germany were an outgrowth of the Turnplatz , [ 8 ] an outdoor space for gymnastics founded by German educator Friedrich Jahn in 1811 [ 9 ] and later promoted by the Turners , a nineteenth ...
A sports complex is a group of sports facilities. For example, there are track and field stadiums , football stadiums , baseball stadiums , swimming pools , Olympic Parks , and indoor arenas . Asia
Typical facilities [ edit ] Facilities typically include a swimming pool , a large sports hall, and a gym , and may include: aerobics studios, an indoor cycling studio, squash courts, a cafeteria , a licensed bar , outdoor grass and/or artificial pitches for football (soccer) , hockey etc., a solarium , sauna and/or steam room .
Gymkhana (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ m ˈ k ɑː n ə /) (Urdu: جِم خانہ, Sindhi: جمخانه, Hindi: जिमख़ाना, Assamese: জিমখানা, Bengali: জিমখানা) is a British Raj term which originally referred to a place of assembly. The meaning then altered to denote a place where skill-based contests were held.
The dictionary was edited by the honorary director general of the board Maulvi Abdul Haq who had already been working on an Urdu dictionary since the establishment of the Urdu Dictionary Board, Karachi, in 1958. [1] [2] [3] Urdu Lughat consists of 22 volumes. In 2019, the board prepared a short concise version of the dictionary in 2 volumes.
Sports by 1900 generated some three percent of the total gross national product in Britain. Professionalization of sports was the norm, although some new activities reached an upscale amateur audience, such as lawn tennis and golf. Women were now allowed in some sports, such as archery, tennis, badminton and gymnastics. [23]
The word "sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing or entertaining". [8] Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise. [9]