Sport is any competitive physical activity that aims to maintain or improve physical ability. There are hundreds of sports that can be individual or team activities. Individual sports involve a single participant competing, such as running or swimming. Team sports require players to work together towards a common goal like winning, as seen in basketball, rugby or volleyball. The Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece and feature the world's most popular sports, including summer sports like athletics, gymnastics and swimming as well as winter sports like alpine skiing, bobsleigh and ice hockey. Some unusual sports featured are hurling, curling, skeleton and lacrosse.

1. SPORTS
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2. WHAT IS A SPORT?
Sport is all forms of usually competitive physical
activity which aim to use, maintain or improve
physical ability and skills while providing
entertainment to participants, and in some cases,
spectators.

3. KINDS OF SPORTS
 Hundreds of sports exist, from two participants to
those with hundreds.
 Either in teams or competing as individuals.

4. INDIVIDUAL SPORTS
• An individual sport
is a sport in which
participants
compete as
individuals
• Examples include
running, judo, skiing
and swimming.

5. TEAM SPORTS
 Players work together to accomplish an
ultimate goal which is usually to win.
 Examples are basketball, rugby and volleyball.

6. THE OLYMPIC GAMES
• Originated in ancient Greece 3,000
years ago in honor of the god
Zeus.
• Were revived in the late 19th
century.
• They have become the world’s
most important sporting
competition.
• They’re held every four years.

7. MOST POPULAR OLYMPIC SPORTS
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8. SUMMER OLYMPIC SPORTS

9. WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS

10. UNUSUAL SPORTS: HURLING
 Outdoor team game
 Played in Ireland
 Fast and skillful
game.
 Players use a wooden
stick called hurler.

11. UNUSUAL SPORTS: CURLING
 Olympic sport
 Two teams,
four players each
 They slide granite stones
 Strategy and teamwork
are important
 Nickname: Chess on ice

12. UNUSUAL SPORTS: SKELETON
 Fast winter olympic sport
 Originated in Switzerland
 Started in 1882
 A sled is used

13. UNUSUAL SPORTS: LACROSSE
 Team sport of Native American origin
 Started in the 17th
century
 Players use a small
rubber ball and a stick
 Olympic game