2. Polo
a team sport
on horseback
to score goals against an
opposing team
Players score by driving a
small white plastic or
wooden ball into the
opposing team's goal using
a long-handled mallet. The
traditional sport of polo is
played at speed on a large
grass field up to 300 yards in
length, and each polo team
consists of four riders and
their mounts.
3. Box
pugilism
a combat sport
two people fight each
other using their fists for
competition
supervised by a referee
4. Rugby
a style of football
originated from Rugby
School
the oval ball and the
ban on passing the ball
forward
teams of 13 players and
union of 15
5. Golf
club-and-ball sport
using many types of
clubs
attempt to hit balls into
each hole on a golf
course while employing
the fewest number of
strokes.
6. Crocket
An open-air game
two or more players
endeavor
to drive wooden balls
by means of mallets
through a series of
hoops or arches set in
the ground according to
some pattern.
7. Squash
a racquet sport
by two players
by two players
with a small, hollow
rubber ball
8. Snooker
a cue sport
on a large green baize-
covered table
with pockets in each of the
four corners and in the
middle of each of the long
side cushions
A regular table is 12 × 6 ft
using a cue and snooker
balls: one white cue ball, 15
red balls worth one point
each, and six balls of
different colours: yellow (2
points), green (3), brown (4),
blue (5), pink (6) and black
(7)
11. Cricket
a bat-and-ball game
two teams of 11 players
on an oval-shaped field
22-yard long pitch
One team bats, trying to score
as many runs as possible while
the other team bowls and fields,
trying to dismiss the batsmen
and thus limit the runs scored by
the batting team. 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.
12. Curling
a sport in which players slide
stones across a sheet of ice
towards a target area
related
to bowls, boule and shuffleb
oard.
Two teams, each of four
players, take turns sliding
heavy,
polished granite stones, also
called "rocks", across the
ice curling sheet towards
thehouse, a circular target
marked on the ice
13. Shuffleboard
sport in which players
use broom-shaped
paddles to push
weighted pucks,
sending them gliding
down a narrow and
elongated court, with
the purpose of having
them come to rest
within a marked scoring
area
