Tetherball
Tetherball is
a North American game for two opposing players. The equipment
consists of a stationary metal pole, from which is hung volleyball from a
rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each
player tries to hit the ball one way; one clockwise, and one counter
(anti-) clockwise. The game ends when one player manages to win the ball all
the way around the pole so that it is stopped by the rope. It must not bounce.
Volleyball
Volleyball is
a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each
team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under
organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of
the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. The ball is usually played with
the hands or arms, but players can legally strike or push (short contact) the
ball with any part of the body.
Water
polo
Water polo,
or Water ball, is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field
players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores
the most goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water (using a sort of
kicking motion known as "eggbeater kick"), and players passing the
ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing the ball into a
net defended by a goalie. Water polo, therefore, has strong similarities to the
land-based game of team handball.
Beach
soccer
Beach soccer,
also known as beach football or beasal, is a variant
of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.
The game emphasizes skill, agility and shooting at goal. The irregularity of
the soft-sand playing surface leads to a totally different style of play than
is used in association football, with a greater degree of improvisation. The
compact pitch, much smaller than a normal association football pitch, allows
players to score from anywhere on the sand, leading to an average of sixty attempts
at goal in a single game. With an average of scoring rate of one goal every
three or four minutes, around eleven goals are scored in total per game.
Cricket
Cricket is
a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on
a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch.
A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running
to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there
without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the
end of an innings.
Golf
Golf is a
precision club and ball sport, in which competing players
(or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a
series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.
Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club
from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in
accordance with the Rules." It is one of the few ball games that
do not require a standardized playing area.
Tennis
Tennis is a sport
usually played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two
players each (doubles). Each player uses a racket that is strung to
strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the
opponent's court. The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way
that the opponent is not able to play a good return. Tennis is
an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages.
The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including people in
wheelchairs.
Water
basketball
Water basketball is a water sport which mixes the rules
of basketball and water polo, played in a swimming pool. Teams
of five players each must shoot at the goal with a ball within a
certain time after gaining possession.
Gilli-Danda
Gilli-Danda is
an amateur sport played in the rural areas and small towns all over
India and Pakistan especially in Tamil Nadu, Punjab, as well
as Cambodia and Italy. "Gilli Danda" origins in India
date back to the "Maurya Dynasty" or even before that. This game is
an extremely famous local game played all over the sub continent and even in
South Asia. Gilli Danda is also believed to be the origin of many such European
and American games like Cricket, Baseball & Softball. This is due to
the similarities of this game to the current version of Cricket or Baseball.
Baseball
Baseball is
a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. The
aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with
a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners
of a 90-foot diamond. Players on the batting team take turns
hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to
stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several
ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later
advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between
batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turns
at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a
professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
