This document discusses many popular sports and their basic rules. It provides brief descriptions of team sports like football, basketball, hockey, baseball and cricket. Individual sports such as tennis, golf, gymnastics, skiing, track and field, and ice skating are also mentioned. Some less common sports that have been part of the Olympics are also listed, such as curling, wife carrying, chessboxing, cheese rolling, and underwater hockey. The document closes by noting that sports provide an opportunity for gambling and that the Olympics are a major international sporting event held every four years.

1. Sports

2. Benefits of sports
• Exercise body and mind
• Fun to do
• Teach people to work together and make friends
• Fun to watch
• They give us something to talk about

3. Spectators
Some people really enjoy
watching sports.

4. Team sports vs. individual sports

5. Football (soccer in America and Japan)
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A game lasts 90 minutes.
It is the most popular sport in the world.
Players kick the ball into the goal.

6. Basketball
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There are five players on each team.
It was invented in 1891.

7. Hockey
It is like football, but on ice.
Hockey stick and puck

8. Baseball
Baseball, bat and glove
Baseball is popular in the U.S., Central
America, and Japan.
Baseball
field

9. Cricket
Cricket is like baseball but very
different. It is very popular in
England and India.

10. Softball
Softball is like baseball, but the ball
is bigger.
Softball is more popular with
women, and people that play for
fun.
Softball
pitcher
(thrower)

11. Tennis
racquet
Tennis court

12. Badminton
Badminton is like volleyball, but
uses a racquet and birdie.

13. Racquetball and squash

14. American Football
The rules are very complicated. It is a very
dangerous sport.

15. Rugby
Rugby is popular in
England.
It is like American
football but has big
differences.

16. Volleyball
In volleyball, we hit the ball
over the net.
Don’t let the ball touch the
ground!

17. Lacrosse
Lacrosse is like hockey but with no
ice.
It uses a hard, heavy rubber ball.

18. Martial arts

19. Golf
In golf, you use a club to hit a
ball into a hole.
A low score is better!

20. Gymnastics
Balance beam
vault
rings

21. Skiing and Snowboarding

22. Track and field
Long jump
hurdles
shotput
Pole
vault

23. Ice skating
Have you ever tried ice
skating?

24. Skateboarding

25. Archery
In archery, we shoot a bow
and arrow to hit a target.

26. curling
Curling is in the Olympics!
They are trying to make the
stone go where why want.
They sweep in front of it to
change where it goes.

27. Wife carrying
Men must carry their wife through a
difficult obstacle course quickly.

28. chessboxing
Athletes compete in both chess
and boxing.

29. Cheese rolling
They must run down the hill to
catch the rolling cheese.

30. Underwater hockey

31. Strongman competition
Caber toss

32. Negatives of sports- Gambling
Sports give people a chance
to gamble.
Popular sports to bet on are
football, horse racing and
basketball.

33. Olympics
The Olympics happen every four
years.
Athletes from all countries come
together to compete in sports.
The Olympics started in ancient
Greece.