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Overview of Popular Sports

This document defines sports as a human activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by formal rules. It discusses several popular sports including athletics, cricket, football, basketball, badminton, tennis, and table tennis. It provides brief overviews of each sport, describing key elements like number of players, objectives, and basic rules. The conclusion emphasizes that sports provide benefits beyond physical well-being such as improved cardiovascular health, physical strength, and overall quality of life.

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Overview of Popular Sports

This document defines sports as a human activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by formal rules. It discusses several popular sports including athletics, cricket, football, basketball, badminton, tennis, and table tennis. It provides brief overviews of each sport, describing key elements like number of players, objectives, and basic rules. The conclusion emphasizes that sports provide benefits beyond physical well-being such as improved cardiovascular health, physical strength, and overall quality of life.

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SPORTS

WHAT IS SPORTS??
A Human Activity Involving Physical
Exertion And Skill As The Primary
Focus Of The Activity, With
Elements Of Competition Or Social
Participation Where Rules And
Patterns Of Behaviour Governing
The Activity Exist Formally
Through Organisations And Is
Generally Recognised As A Sport.
MOSTLY PLAYES SPORTS
 Athletics
 Cricket
 Football
 Basketball
 Badminton
 Tennis and table tennis
ATHLETICS
 Athletics is a sport that includes a number of
events involving running, jumping, throwing
or walking. Often referred to as track & field
 sport includes single events, such as the
100m, marathon or long jump, combined
events, including the decathlon and
heptathlon.
 team-based events such as the 4x100m
relays.
CRICKET
 Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between
two teams of eleven players on a field at the
centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch
with a wicket at each end, each comprising
two bails balanced on three stumps.

 There are three formats of cricket played at


the international level – Test matches, One-Day
Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals.
FOOTBALL
 football, is a team sport played by two teams
of eleven players by passing ball to their own
player with foot on a rectangular field with
goalposts at each end.

 Only the goalkeeper is permitted to handle


the ball and may do so only within the penalty
area surrounding the goal. The team that
scores more goals wins
BASKETBALL

 Basketball is a game played between two


teams of five players each on a rectangular
court, usually indoors. Each team tries to
score by tossing the ball through the
opponent's goal, an elevated horizontal hoop
and net called a basket.
 James Naismith discovered basketball game.
 Each team has twelve players; where five
players play, and seven are seated on the
bench.
 A team can score one, two, or three points by
successfully shooting the ball in the hoop.
BADMINTON
 Badminton is a racket sport that is played by
two or four players.
 A singles game involves one person playing
against another, and a doubles game is when
two players play against another two
players.
 Game play involves the players striking a
shuttlecock over a net into their opposition's
side of the court.
 Badminton is an indoor game that needs a lot
of energy and is suitable for physical fitness.
TENNIS AND TABLE TENNIS
 Tennis consists of  Table tennis, also
points, games, and sets known as ping-pong and
 Tennis is played in whiff-whaff
points: Four points win  It is a sport in which
a game, six games win two or four players hit a
a set, and two or three lightweight ball, back
sets win a match. and forth across a table
 A tennis court is the using small rackets.
venue where the sport  The game takes place
of tennis is played on a hard table divided
by a net.
CONCLUSION
The Benefits Of Sports Extend Far Beyond
Physical Well-being. Engaging In Sports
Leads To Improved Cardiovascular Health,
Enhanced Physical Strength, And A
Healthier Lifestyle. Physical Benefits
Include, But Are Not Limited To, Reduced
Risk For Diseases, And Improvements In
Physical Functioning, Fitness, And Overall
Quality Of Life.

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