Various kinds of ball games are played by people all over the world.
Interestingly most of the ball games engage team play and it provides the
feeling of togetherness. Other than these ball games involve enormous physical
activity and exercise which in turn help us to keep fit and healthy. Let’s have
a look at some of the well known ball games from all over the world.
Badminton
Badminton is
a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or
two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a
rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking
a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and
lands in their opponents' half of the court. Since 1992, badminton has been
an Olympic sport.
Croquet
Croquet is
a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with
a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in
the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.
Handball
Handball (also
known as team handball, Olympic handball, European handball or Borden ball) is a team
sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a
goalkeeper) pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. A standard
match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team with the most goals
scored wins. Modern handball is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants
exist in the forms of field handball and Czech handball (which
were more common in the past) and beach handball (also called sand
ball).
Hurling
Hurling is an
outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by
the Gaelic Athletic Association. The game
has prehistoric origins, has been played for over 3,000
years, and is thought to be the world's fastest field team game in terms
of game play. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a
number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals,
number of players, and much terminology.
Jai alai
Jai alai is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space. It is a variety
of Basque Pelota. The term, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is
also often loosely applied to the fronton (the open-walled playing
area) where the sport is played. The Basque Government promotes jai
alai as "the fastest sport in the world because of the
balls" and once held the world record for ball speed with a 125g–140g ball
covered with goatskin that traveled at 302 km/h (188 mph).
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is
a team sport of Native American origin played using a small
rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a Crosse or lacrosse stick,
mainly played in the United States and Canada. The head of the lacrosse stick
is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse
ball and can also be strung with hard mesh. Offensively, the objective of
the game is to score by shooting the ball into an opponent's goal, using the
lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball to do so. Defensively, the
objective is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of
the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact or positioning.
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