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  2. Category:Sports terminology - Wikipedia

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    For glossaries of terms, please place the glossaries in Category:Glossaries of sports and, if one exists, the sport-specific subcategory of Category:Sports terminology. Do not a create a sport-specific subcategory just to hold a lone glossary article (it will just get up-merged again at WP:CFD ).

  3. Category:Glossaries of sports - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of Canadian football terms. Glossary of chess. Glossary of climbing terms. Glossary of contract bridge terms. Glossary of cricket terms. Glossary of cue sports terms. Glossary of curling. Glossary of cycling.

  4. Glossary of association football terms - Wikipedia

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    A player doing a keepie-uppie. Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. [1] A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture.

  5. Olympic sports - Wikipedia

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    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) considers an Olympic sport to comprise all disciplines governed by an international sports federation. [4] For example, aquatics is a summer Olympic sport that includes six disciplines: swimming, artistic swimming, diving, water polo, open water swimming, and high diving (a non-Olympic discipline), all ...

  6. List of sports - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]

  7. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.

  8. Outline of sports - Wikipedia

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    Sports can be described as all of the following: Entertainment – Any sport that includes spectators, either free or paid admission, with no pre-scripted plot of the outcome. The athletics might also get entertained by complete sports objective. Exercise – some sports are physical exercise while others are mental exercise.

  9. Category:Sports - Wikipedia

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    A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out under a publicly agreed set of rules, and with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of skill, or some combination of these. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess.