Team sports

500 is a competitive, outdoor game for 3+ people that is typically played with a baseball, football, or frisbee. One person is designated as the thrower, and stands a good distance away from the rest of the group. The game begins with the thrower calling out a number (typically a multiple of 100 between 100 and 500), and then throwing the baseball/ football/ frisbee in the general direction of the group. The person that catches the throw gains the number of points called out. The process is repeated until one of the players reaches or exceeds 500 points. That player then switches places with the thrower, and the game continues. Typically, all player's point totals are reset when a new thrower is instated. ...more on Wikipedia about "500 (outdoor game)"

American football, known in the United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport. The object of the game is to advance the football towards the opposing team's end zone and score points. The ball can be advanced by carrying the ball, or by throwing or handing it from one teammate to the other. Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, throwing the ball to another player past the goal line or kicking it through the goal posts. The winner is the team with the most points when the time expires. ...more on Wikipedia about "American football"

Angleball is said to have been started by Rip Engle, a football coach at Penn State before Joe Paterno. Engle devised the game as a way for his players to maintain fitness in the off-season. Deliberately, it has light contact and few rules or requirements. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angleball"

:See also: List of Australian Football Leagues outside Australia ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian football around the world"

Australian football, which is also known as Australian rules football, or less formally as "Aussie rules" or simply as "footy" is a code of football which originated in Melbourne, Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian rules football"

Bandy is a winter sport, where a ball is hit with a stick. It is an ancestor of ice hockey. It likely descended from shinty and in turn field hockey. Bandy is played outdoors on a sheet of ice, and has rules that are similar to association football. It is now played in a few nations, including Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway, Belarus, The Netherlands, Estonia, Hungary, Canada, United States and Kazakhstan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandy"

BaseketPolo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of water polo and standing. A team consists of two players. The goal of the game is to be the first team to score five goals, with each goal being worth one point. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baseketpolo"

Beach Ultimate (sometimes called also Beach Ultimate Frisbee) is a competitive non-contact team sport played with a disc that has a mass of 175 grams. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc into the opposing endzone, similar to American football. Players may not run while holding the disc. Beach Ultimate is played 5-on-5 or 4-on-4 on a beach court and is derived from "regular" Ultimate, which is played on a grass field. Beach Ultimate, like Ultimate, is distinguished by its Spirit of the Game - the principles of fair play, sportsmanship, and the joy of play. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beach Ultimate"

Beach volleyball has evolved from the popular social games of volleyball played on many beaches around the world. This version, rather than being played on indoor hard courts, is played on sand courts, which are either formed naturally or built specifically for the purpose. Instead of a team of six, each team consists of only two players, but otherwise the rules are almost identical with some exceptions including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Beach volleyball"

Bicycle Polo was invented in Ireland in 1891 and emulates the game of regular polo. It was revived in 1930 under a consolidated regulatory body known as the Bicycle Polo Association (BPA). At that time, it was composed of 17 leagues in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with 160 teams and over 1000 registered participants. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bicycle polo"

Bobsleigh is a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. In the United States the sport is known as bobsled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bobsleigh"

Bossaball is a ball game between 2 teams. It's a variation on the volleyball concept. The court is a combination of inflatables and trampolines, divided by a net. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bossaball"

British Bulldogs (often used in the singular - British Bulldog - or simply Bulldog[s]) is a tag-based game somewhat similar to Red Rover, played mainly in Britain by children at school. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Bulldogs (game)"

Broomball is a popular recreational ice sport often thought to have originated in Canada and is played in many countries around the world. It is played on a hockey rink, either indoors or outdoors, depending on climate and location. ...more on Wikipedia about "Broomball" Come again to http://www.shortopedia.com Team_sports

Camogie (in Irish, Camógaíocht) is a Celtic team sport, the female variant of hurling. The rules are identical to hurling except that goalkeepers wear the same colours as outfield players and all games last 60 minutes (senior inter-county hurling games last 70). Unlike hurling, the referee is not responsible for timekeeping; there is an independent timekeeper. The All-Ireland Final is held every year in Croke Park during September, usually the week between the hurling final and Gaelic football final. There are two main competitions; the National League which is staged during the winter-spring months and is used as a warm-up to the All-Ireland Championships during the summer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Camogie"

Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground 22 yards long, called the pitch. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cricket"

Cycle ball is a sport, similar to soccer, only the competitors play while riding bicycles. Each of the two people on a team rides a specialized bicycle with no brakes and no freewheel (a fixed gear bicycle). The ball is controlled by using the bike and the head, except when defending the goal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cycle ball"

Cycle Polo or Bike Polo is an outdoor game similar to Polo, except that bicycles are used instead of horses. The sport orginated in Ireland and was formally invented by Richard J. Mecredy in 1891. The game is currently played mainly in USA, France, India and Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cycle polo"

Danish longball is a racquet-sport founded in Denmark, and now played regularly in New York's Adirondack Mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Danish longball"

Double Disc Court (DDC) is a disc ( frisbee) sport played with two flying discs. It is played between two teams of two players each. Teammates stand in the same court. The goal is to defend a court from an attack by the opponents. Two identical square courts are located on a level playing field of grass measuring 13 meters on a side. The distance between the courts is 17 meters. Attacks are made in two ways: by throwing a disc in play into the opponents' court in an attempt to have the disc come to rest within that court without ever having touched out-of-bounds, or by causing both discs to be touched by a player or players on the opposing team at the same time (called a "double"). A team scores a point whenever they make a successful attack or whenever an opponent throws a disc out-of-bounds. The first team to score the requisite number of points as determined by the competitive format wins the game. ...more on Wikipedia about "DDC Frisbee"

Dodge Frisbee is a variation of dodgeball using a Frisbee in place of the ball or balls. Like dodgeball, once a player is hit by a Frisbee he or she exits the field of play. However, unlike dodgeball, if a player catches the Frisbee without it touching the ground, either before or after being hit, the player who threw the Frisbee leaves the game instead. The game ends when there is only one player left. The game usually ends with a "shootout" between two players, each with several Frisbees. The final players tend to execute several simultaneous "attacks" until one is hit without catching the opponent's Frisbee. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dodge Frisbee"

Durango Boot (also called Boot) is a competitive, non-contact sport that makes use of a flying disc (or Frisbee), and is similar to ultimate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Durango Boot"

Eton Fives, one code of the British game of Fives, is a hand-ball game, similar to Rugby Fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. The object is to force the other team to fail to hit the ball 'up' off the front wall. One of the best ways to achieve this is to hit the ball into the 'pepper-box' between the buttress and step which divides the court. The 'pepper-box' buttress, the step and the slanted sides to the walls make for the occasional odd bounce, making Eton Fives as much about preemption of 'funny-bounces' as preemption of your opponent's intentions. The players wear padded leather gloves as the ball is quite hard, being made of rubber and cork. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eton Fives"

Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. In most countries, especially those in which ice hockey is not very prominent, it is simply known as hockey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Field hockey"

Finnish baseball ("pesäpallo") is a fast-moving ball sport greatly similar to baseball. It is the de facto national sport of Finland and has some presence in other countries, such as Germany, Sweden and Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Finnish baseball"

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