Sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Sports are part of every culture past and present, but each culture has its own definition of sports. The most useful definitions are those that clarify the relationship of sports to play, games, and contests. Sport is usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, and allow consistent adjudication of the winner. Sport is generally recognized as system of activities which are based in physical athleticism. For popular sports, records of sports performance may be widely announced or reported in sport news. Sports kept societies fit and healthy while building strong communities and boosting morale. One of the best reasons for kids and adults to play sport is for the incredible health benefits. The sport tends to involve vigorous exercise, meaning you only need to aim for 75 minutes a week to get the benefits. If you achieve the recommended level of exercise, then the health benefits are undeniable. Benefits include: 50% decreased risk of diabetes, 35% decreased risk of heart disease, 50% reduced risk of colon cancer, 20% reduced risk of breast cancer, 30% lower risk of falling as an older adult, 30% lower risk of dying. Sports build friendship between pupils. Healthy kids are better learners.
The Great 10 Least Played sports are as follows.
1.Kabaddi
Kabaddi is a team sport from South Asia. It is popular in the Indian subcontinent and other surrounding Asian countries. Kabaddi is the national sport of Bangladesh. This game is a mix of rugby without a ball and red rover. The basic rules of Kabaddi are simple: two teams of seven players each face off in a large rectangular area for two halves of twenty minutes each. The size of the court is about 13m x 10m. Players from each team take turns running across the center line to the other team’s half of the court, tagging members of the other team, and running back. Each side gets alternating turns to send any one player to the opponent’s side. This player is called the raider and each player on the opposing team is called a defender.
The more opposing team members they tag, the more points they score, but if the opposing team can physically prevent them from crossing back to their side of the court, they score no points. In order to get a bonus point, the raider must cross the baulk or check line with one foot with the other one in the air, when the defending team has 6 or 7 defenders. Kabaddi is also popular in other parts of the world where there are Indian and Pakistani communities such as in the United Kingdom where the sport is governed by the England Kabaddi Federation UK. It needs no special equipment, clothing or accessories, ensuring it is a game that is open to everyone. It is the state game of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Odisha, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh Tamil Nadu, and Telangana .
2.Motocross/motorcycle racing
Motocross is a motorcycle racing sport in which riders compete on off-road courses using dirt bikes. Motocross was derived from motorcycle trials in the UK, by eliminating strict scoring and the delicate balancing aspects of trials. The objective of motocross racing is to simply complete a course in the fastest time possible. In each race, about 25 to 30 riders are allowed to take part. Races involve riding around the course for a fixed number of laps, where the rider to cross the finish line first is declared as the winner. The FIM Motocross World Championship is the most notable event for the sport that is conducted annually. In 1957 it was upgraded to World Championship status. In 1962 a 250 cc world championship was established. Major categories include road racing, off-road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing, hill climbs, drag racing and land speed record trials.
Courses vary widely but must be 1.5 to 5 km in length in international competition, with steep uphill and downhill grades, wet or muddy areas, and many left and right turns of varying difficulty. Riders must use the same motorcycle throughout a race, with repairs made between heats if necessary. A cotton jersey, nylon pants padded at the knee and thigh, padded boots and gloves, a helmet and goggles, a plastic chest protector, and a kidney belt for support constitute the usual outfit of the motocross cyclist. It would be great for you to learn to ride in different weather conditions. In a rough terrain, navigate bumps by standing up because while standing your legs will act like a double-long suspension set. It is also important to learn how to fix your bike by yourself. The races take place on gravel, mud or grass road circuits and the discipline is one of the most skilled, exciting and energetic motor sports around.
3.Fencing
In the Tokyo 2020 Games Fencing is one of the original sports included in the first modern Games. The women’s fencing competition was added in 1924. Fencing is believed to have originated in Spain. Men and women each compete in six events, here three weapons used: epee, sabre and foil. The epee is also a thrusting weapon but has a maximum weight of 775 grams. Again, only the tip of the blade counts but the target area is the entire body so there is no lame. The sabre is a cutting and thrusting weapon with a maximum weight of 500 grams. The entire blade can score with the target area the upper half of the body, covered by the lame, including the face mask and neck bib which must also be made of conducting material. The foil has a maximum weight of 500 grams and is a thrusting weapon. Only the tip of the blade counts with the target area the torso which is covered by the lame. Most competitive fencers choose to specialize in one weapon only. The competitor who scores the most points during the three, three-minute rounds, or reaches 15 points first, wins.
Fencing is governed by Federation Internationale d’Escrime (FIE). Fencing The Romans brought sword combat to a highly systematic art that was taught to both their legions and their gladiators. Gladiators were trained in schools by professional instructors. Beginners practiced with a wooden sword called a rudis. More-advanced training took place with weapons that were somewhat heavier than those used in actual combat. Swords were heavy and used primarily to broach the protective armour. Fencing was originally a form of military training and started to evolve into a sport in both Germany and Italy. Since that tragic accident, masks and the neck bibs surrounding them are subject to stringent checks. All masks must pass a 12kg “punch test” with FIE-approved versions, obligatory for World Championships and Olympic Games, made of stainless steel and non-FIE masks usually made of carbon steel mesh. Masks normally have a removable inside lining for easy washing. The neck bibs are usually made of Kevlar or other strong synthetic fibre and made to resist a force of 1600 Newtons.
4.Polo
Polo has been called “the sport of kings”. Polo, game played on horseback between two teams of four players each who use mallets with long, flexible handles to drive a wooden ball down a grass field and between two goal posts. Each team has four mounted riders, and the game usually lasts one to two hours, divided into periods called chukkas. It is one of the world’s oldest known team sports. The sport originated from equestrian games played by nomadic Iranian peoples . It is played professionally in 16 countries. Various forms of Polo, and similar sports, have been long played, traditionally, throughout a wide range covering Assam and Manipur areas of India, Kashmir, Nepal and Tibet, and the Northern valleys of Pakistan such as Gilgit, Hunza Valley, Baltistan and Chitral District and parts of Central Asia as well.
They play on a field which is 300 yards long and 160 or 200 yards wide. There are goalposts 8 yards apart at each end of the field. In a game there are 2 umpires on horses and a referee on the side. Polo was introduced into India by the Muslim conquerors in the 13th century. Polo spread rapidly after a captain in the 10th Hussars stationed in India saw a match early in 1866 and immediately formed a team from among his fellow officers. Polo grew rapidly in England, with matches at Richmond Park and Hurlingham attracting more than 10,000 spectators by 1875. In the 1890s, Polo was also introduced to the United States. Kublai Khan’s summer palace was called Xanadu. Marco Polo called Xanadu ‘the greatest palace that ever was. Polo is way less popular than water polo.
5.Archery
Archery is believed that bows and arrows have been used for at least 25,000 years based upon the discovery of arrowheads in Africa. An archer can also be referred to as a toxophilite. The word comes from two Greek words that together mean ‘lover of the bow’. It is considered to be one of the oldest sports in the world. The word archery is derived from the word arcus, a Latin term that means bow and arrows. It was reintroduced in 1972. Bhutan is the only country in the world that considers archery their national sport. The bag that archers use to hold their arrows is called a quiver. The first country with organized archery competitions was England in the 1500s. Archers shoot according to their dominant eye and because of this a right-handed person may shoot with their left hand and vice versa.
ARCHERY IS ONE OF THE SAFEST SPORTS. An arrow released in competition flies 150 mph. Final arrow shot in an archery competition is called an upshot. The Easton Archery Center of Excellence, gifted and operated by the Easton Foundations, increased the U.S. Olympic Training Center by 42,629 square feet. The state-of-the-art design includes classrooms, conference rooms, a fitness room, an athletes’ lounge, coaches’ offices and housing for 30. If in a post-Hunger Games world archery still charts this low, the fifth-least popular sport in the world may actually be its peak.
6.Sailing
Sailing is a very popular sport, and it had a large influence on modern life. One of the best laser radial sailors is from The Netherlands. Sailing has been a part of the Olympics from 1896 onwards. Conventional sailing craft cannot derive power from sails on a point of sail that is too close to the wind. On a given point of sail, the sailor adjusts the alignment of each sail with respect to the apparent wind direction to mobilize the power of the wind. The average sailboat cruises at about 4-6 knots, (4-7 mph or 7-11 km/h) and has a top speed of 9 knots (10 mph or 17 km/h). It’s just not that fast. Sailing gives you access to places that are off-limits to tourists. We can actually operate a 100′ sailboat by yourself. Sailing a bigger boat more stable. Most sailing represents a form of recreation or sport.
Recreational sailing or yachting can be divided into racing and cruising. Cruising can include extended offshore and ocean-crossing trips, coastal sailing within sight of land, and daysailing. The average salinity of oceans is 3.5% but it varies greatly. Sailboats can sail faster than the speed of the wind. The measurement that ships use for navigation is the nautical mile. One nautical mile per hour is called a “knot”. The origin of the word “knot” comes from the olden days when the speed on the ships would be measured by throwing into the sea a log attached to a rope with evenly spaced knots. As the ship moved relative to the log, the number of knots during a certain period of time would be counted to measure the speed.
7.Canadian football
Canadian football is a sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (101 m) long and 65 yards (59 m) wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team’s scoring area. American football and Canadian football may look identical at first glance to the casual observer. However, a closer look reveals that despite them sharing many of the same features, there are some important differences between these two styles of gridiron. In the American football teams have just eleven on each side. In American football are allowed four downs, whereas in Canadian football, they are allowed just three. The length of an NFL pitch is 120-yards whereas a CFL pitch is 150-yards. The CFL is the most popular and only major professional Canadian football league.
Great achievements in Canadian football are enshrined in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame located in Hamilton, Ontario. Many of the first Canadian football teams played under the auspices of the Canadian Rugby Football Union (CRFU), founded in 1884. The Grey Cup was donated by Governor General the Earl Grey in 1909 to the team winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada. Canadian Football League (CFL), major Canadian professional gridiron football organization, formed in 1956 as the Canadian Football Council. The Canadian football field is covered entirely in glass and wire. Since so many balls got caught in the overhead wires, in 1947 CFL cancelled the post-score kickoffs in favour of a jump-ball.
8.Weightlifting
The origins of weightlifting as a sport are primal, with the main goal the ability to lift more weight than an opponent. The competitive sport of weightlifting is a separate discipline from the athletic training that is defined by the umbrella term weight training. Weight training is used by athletes to build muscle mass, strength, and endurance; to improve performance in a particular sport; or to generally enhance overall fitness. In weightlifting, as in boxing and wrestling, there is a well-defined correlation between the size of the athlete and the amount of weight that the athlete is capable of lifting. There are two standard lifts in modern weightlifting: the single-movement lift from floor to extended position, and the two-movement lift from floor to shoulder position, and from shoulders to extended position. Weightlifting Sport in which weights at the end of a bar are lifted over the head. Competitions are conducted according to weight classes that range from bantamweight to heavyweight. In a weightlifting competition, each participant uses three standard lifts known as two-hand press, clean-and-jerk, and snatch. The competitor who lifts the greatest combined total of weights wins.
Strength training involves training the muscles and the nervous system together they make what is called the neuromuscular system. Sports involved weight training are bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, strongman, highland games, hammer throw, shot put, discus throw, and javelin throw. Weightlifting was first introduced in the Olympics in the 1896 Athens Olympic games as a part of track and field, and was officially recognized as its own event in 1914. Weightlifting has been a part of the modern Olympic Games since 1896. Women’s weightlifting, using similar principles in the determination of weight categories, became an Olympic sport in 2000. With machines, the weighted path is restricted and controlled by the structure of the machinery. Weight training uses a variety of specialized equipment to target specific muscle groups and types of movement. In 2003 at the age of 40, Raija Koskinen of Finland set a world record for the women’s squat in the 97-pound (44 kilograms) bodyweight class. She squatted an amazing 377 pounds (171 kilos), almost four times her body weight.
9.Darts
The game of darts is an interesting game that’s enjoyed by millions. All you need for the game is a dart board, some darts, and an opponent. The dart board should be hung at an eye-level height. Because the persons playing may vary in height, the ideal position to hang it is at 5ft. 8in (1.73m) above the floor. A general rule says that they should hold the dart between the thumb and the forefinger for better accuracy and comfort. You should throw the dart keeping it at eye level, and with a smooth action. Each player has three darts and they have to throw all three one by one, each time they visit the oche. The oche, which is the line a throwing player must stand behind; it should be 7ft 9in (2.37m) away from the face of the board. This game was started over a hundred years back.
Darts is not limited to such casual public places only; it is also considered a serious business by professional dart players. It can help you improve your concentration, confidence, hand/eye coordination. It is one of the few games where your entire family can participate. It is not at all an expensive pursuit. The requirement of space is not a factor for this game. There is no age limit for the participants. Darts players are sometimes termed “dartists”. The first metal barrels were made from brass which was relatively cheap and easy to work. The wooden shafts, threaded to fit the tapped barrel, were either fletched as before or designed to take a paper flight. This type of dart continued to be used into the 1970s.
10.Bowling
Bowling is a throwing sport in which a ball is thrown towards pins in an effort to knock them down and earn points. The goal of the bowler is to roll his ball down the lane, knocking out as many pins as possible. The term bowling usually refers to ten-pin bowling. A regulation bowling alley is made of polished wood and measures 41 to 42 inches wide and 60 feet from the foul line, where the ball is delivered, to the center of the head pin. A game with a score of 200 or more is called a Deuce. In bowling, three strikes is called a “turkey,” six strikes is a “wild turkey,” and nine strikes is a “golden turkey.” Also, four strikes is a called a “ham bone.” According to the United States Bowling Congress, bowling balls can have up to 12 holes, as long as it can be demonstrated that each hole has a use. The National Bowling Association was established in New York City in 1875 in order to establish standardized rules for ten-pin bowling. Bowling balls can weigh between 6 pounds and 16 pounds.
The bowling balls made in the early part of the 1900s were made of wood. Later they were manufactured with heavy rubber. In the 1906s they began to be made with polyester resin. Today bowling is popular around the world, as a competitive sport and as a leisure sport. Women began bowling in the 1880s despite it being socially unacceptable to do so. The first bowling games to appear on television in 1950. Bowling is played by 100 million people in more than 90 countries. Bowling is considered to be a healthy exercise and activity for people. It makes the body use muscles it might not otherwise use. It makes the body stretch and lift weight. Bowling is one of the sports still suitable for much older people. The largest bowling center in the world is located in Inazawa, Japan and has 116 lanes. For his birthday present, bowling lanes were built on the West Wing of the White House for President Truman.
