Team sports Team sports Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet. The name may be derived from the slang expression "a bunch of fives" (meaning a fist). The game has also been known as hand-tennis and historically was often played between the buttresses of church buildings in England. There are links between Fives and the Irish and North American handball games and indeed, in recent years, British clubs have begun to establish ties with clubs in those countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fives"
Floorball is an indoor team sport played using composite sticks with a plastic vented blade where the aim is to put a light plastic ball into the opponent's goal. Floorball is most popular in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, and is also played in several other countries, such as Norway and the Czech Republic. It is gaining popularity in many other places as well, including some countries outside Europe, such as Singapore, Japan, Australia and the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Floorball"
A footbag is a small bean bag or sand bag used as a ball in a number of sports and games. It is typically controlled by the feet, but in some sports every part of the body except the hands and arms may be used. The term footbag is also the generic name for the sports which use the footbag. The main varieties are footbag freestyle, footbag net, and circle kick. Both the footbag and the sports that use it are sometimes referred to as hacky sack, hacky-sack, hackysack, or hackey sack. ...more on Wikipedia about "Footbag"
Football is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by maneuvering the ball into the opposing goal. Other than the goalkeepers, players may not intentionally use their hands or arms to propel the ball in general play. The winner is the team which has scored most goals at the end of the match. ...more on Wikipedia about "Football (soccer)"
Friskee is a sport played with a Frisbee (flying disc), two gates and two teams. One team has to throw the disk through the other team's gate. The person currently holding the disc cannot run until it leaves his hand. There is no arbitrator and everyone is permitted to stop any opposing player in any way. But the gentlemanly spirit of the game must be maintained, so heavy injuries are few. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friskee"
Gaelic football ( Irish: peil ghaelach) is a form of football played mainly in Ireland where it is the most popular sport. Teams of 15 players kick or punch a round ball towards goals at either end of a grass pitch. There is no offside rule. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gaelic football"
Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. It was devised by an Austrian, Hanz Lorenzen, and a German, Sepp Reindle, in 1946 in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goalball"
Goaltimate is a half-court flying disc game derived from ultimate, similar to hotbox. The object is to score points by throwing a disc to a teammate through a large semicircular hoop--called the goal--into a small scoring area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goaltimate"
Guts frisbee (or Flutterguts) is a frisbee team sport, similar to murderball. Five team members stand in a line with two teams lined up parallel to each other. One team starts with the frisbee after "flipping the disk", an action similar to a coin toss, but using the frisbee itself. One member of the team is then selected to start play. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guts frisbee"
Hardball Hockey in the United States (often called rink-hockey in other parts of the world under the Roller Hockey umbrella) is one of the three most popular hockey variants and shouldn't be confused with Inline hockey which is also categorized under Roller Hockey unmbrella. Hardball Hockey is highly popular in Latin countries, with Portugal (15 World titles), Spain (11 World titles), Italy (4 World titles) and Argentina (4 World titles), dominating the sport since the early 1940s. Other countries, such as France, Brazil, Germany and Japan are regular international competitors, but rarely win over the "big four". ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardball hockey"
Harpastum was the name of a ball game played by the Romans. The word harpastum is probably derived from harpago, to snatch or take by violence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harpastum"
Harrow Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. Harrow Football is played predominantly with the feet, but players may use any part of their body except their hands and arms to propel the ball. The leather ball is shaped like a giant pork pie, about 18 inches in diameter and 12 inches deep. It tends to soak up mud and water and become extremely heavy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harrow Football"
(Horseball) A game played on horseback where a ball is handled and points are scored by shooting it through a high net. The sport is like a combination of polo, rugby, and basketball. ...more on Wikipedia about "Horseball"
Hot Box (or simply Box) is a non-contact team sport which is similar to Ultimate, but played on a smaller field and with fewer players. Like Ultimate, the object of the game is to score points by passing the disc into the endzone; however, in Hot Box there is generally only one end zone and it is of much smaller size than an Ultimate end zone. In this way, Hot Box is a "half-court" (see basketball) variant of Ultimate. Because of these reduced requirements, it is often played when not enough players are available to play Ultimate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot Box"
Hurling is an outdoor team sport of Celtic origin, played with sticks and a ball. The game, played primarily in Ireland, is arguably the world's fastest field team sport in terms of gameplay (however the ball travels faster in other field games such as hockey). It resembles the games of shinty that is played primarily in Scotland and bandy that was played formerly in England and Wales. Hurling played by women is also known as camogie. Hurling is one of Ireland's native sports. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hurling"
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces. The most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Russia, the United States, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ice hockey"
Indoor field hockey is an indoor variant of "traditional" outdoor field hockey. It is not to be confused with other indoor hockey variants such as rink hockey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indoor field hockey"
== Inline Hockey == ...more on Wikipedia about "Inline hockey"
Intercrosse is a non-contact form of lacrosse with a standardised set of rules using sofcrosse equipment. Intercrosse as a competitive sport is most popular in many continental European countries, as well as in Quebec in Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Intercrosse"
Intramural Softball, also known as Pick-up Softball, is a sport for normal college students to compete in Softball without needing any practice or much skill. It is a minor variation upon the competitive sport, and the rules are more relaxed to allow for a carefree, fun game. ...more on Wikipedia about "Intramural softball"
Jianzi (毽子) is a traditional Asian shuttlecock game which originated in ancient China in the Han dynasty. In English, both the sport and the object with which it is played, are referred to as " shuttlecock" or "featherball". ...more on Wikipedia about "Jianzi"
Kabaddi or Kabbadi, Kabadi is a team pursuit sport, primarily played in South Asia. Kabaddi is derived from a hindi word meaning holding breath. Kabaddi is used as the chant in the game (see below) in most of the world. However, in Bangladesh this is hadudu, in Nepal Do-Do, in Sri Lanka Guddo, in Malaysia Chado-Guddo and in Indonesia Techib. Hadudu/kabaddi is recognised as the national game of Bangladesh. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kabaddi"
Korfball (in Dutch korfbal, which literally means basketball) is a team ball game. It is mostly played in the Netherlands and Belgium. Korfball differs from other team sports in that it is a mixed-gender game: a team consists of four men and four women. ...more on Wikipedia about "Korfball"
Lacrosse is a fast-paced team sport played by two teams of ten players for men or twelve players for women each who use netted sticks (called the cross) in order to pass and catch a rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lacrosse"
(List of fictional sports teams) *Red Park City - from The Premier a comic strip in The Sun newspaper. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of fictional sports teams"
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