sports and game
Sports and games
Sports can be generally divided into indoor and outdoor sports. Gymnastics is a typical indoor sport which includes apparatus training on uneven bars, horizontal bar, balance beam, mat, spring-board or rings. Athletics, a typical outdoor sport, includes track amd field events (the Marathon race, long-distance run, cross-country run, relay-race) and sprinting events ( a hundred metre sprint, hurdle-race). Jumping (high jjump, long jump, triple jump, pole jump) and throwing (hammer, discus, javelin, shot put) are also athletic sports. Indoor sports can be practised all the year round but many of outdoor sports such as cycling race, mountainering and most of aquatic sports like sailing, yachting, regatta, water-skiing, diving, wind-surfing, wave-gliding and others, depend on weather and therefore can be practise mostly in summer. Swimming is also a typical summer sport but it is possible to practise it all the year round in indoor pools. Swimming includes breaststroke, backstroke, crawl and butterfly. In winter sportsmen go in for winter sports, such as skiing, skating, snow-boarding and tobogganing. Skiers can practise giant slalom, downhill race or ski jumps in ski resorts where there are good snow conditions. Skating includes figure skating and speed skating which are practised on skating-rinks.
Games are those sports in which ate least two players are involved. The most popular games are football, rugby, hockey, tennis, golf, cricket, basketball, volleyball, handball and many others.
The British are sport-loving people. Every Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman and Welshman is said to be interested in at least one sport ar game. Some of the games such as football, rugby, golf, tennis originated in Britain and spread all over the world from there.
Cricket is considered to be the most typically English. This game has its roots in England and has never become popular beyond the British Commonwealth. It is a difficult game for foreigners to
Sports can be generally divided into indoor and outdoor sports. Gymnastics is a typical indoor sport which includes apparatus training on uneven bars, horizontal bar, balance beam, mat, spring-board or rings. Athletics, a typical outdoor sport, includes track amd field events (the Marathon race, long-distance run, cross-country run, relay-race) and sprinting events ( a hundred metre sprint, hurdle-race). Jumping (high jjump, long jump, triple jump, pole jump) and throwing (hammer, discus, javelin, shot put) are also athletic sports. Indoor sports can be practised all the year round but many of outdoor sports such as cycling race, mountainering and most of aquatic sports like sailing, yachting, regatta, water-skiing, diving, wind-surfing, wave-gliding and others, depend on weather and therefore can be practise mostly in summer. Swimming is also a typical summer sport but it is possible to practise it all the year round in indoor pools. Swimming includes breaststroke, backstroke, crawl and butterfly. In winter sportsmen go in for winter sports, such as skiing, skating, snow-boarding and tobogganing. Skiers can practise giant slalom, downhill race or ski jumps in ski resorts where there are good snow conditions. Skating includes figure skating and speed skating which are practised on skating-rinks.
Games are those sports in which ate least two players are involved. The most popular games are football, rugby, hockey, tennis, golf, cricket, basketball, volleyball, handball and many others.
The British are sport-loving people. Every Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman and Welshman is said to be interested in at least one sport ar game. Some of the games such as football, rugby, golf, tennis originated in Britain and spread all over the world from there.
Cricket is considered to be the most typically English. This game has its roots in England and has never become popular beyond the British Commonwealth. It is a difficult game for foreigners to