Sports in India,
Sport is commonly defined as an athletic activity that involves a degree of competition, such as netball or basketball. Some games and many kinds of racing are called sports. A professional at a sport is called an athlete. Many people play sports with their friends. They need coaches to teach or train teams or individuals how to do better. Sports can be played indoors or outdoors and by individuals or team.
Sports is needed for health and can help reduce diseases such as heart attacks, many types of cancer, depression and anxiety, and dementia. Different types of sports help our body in different ways. For children, sports play an extremely important part in their lives by providing all round development of the child, physically, mentally and emotionally.
Some people like to watch other people play sports. Those who watch others playing sports are called fans. While some fans watch sports on television, others actually go to stadiums or other places where people pay to watch them in person. These fans are called spectators.
Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organized participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participant save, to work as a team, which teaches them how to enhance a social relationship- which is also an important parameter of lightens emotionally strong.
Sports can help an individual work in team spirit and also develops a problem-solving attitude towards life. Sports played across the world are Cricket, Football, Volleyball, Chess, Badminton, Tennis. Two categories of sports are Olympic Sport and Non-Olympic Sport.
Games of India
India is home to a diverse population playing different games. It is the origin of games like Hockey, Chess, Gillie Dada.
Chess
Sharon or Tauranga are the ancient names for Chess. Archaeologist found the remains of this game roughly, 1,500 years ago. It is a board game which requires minimum two players. Each player in the game has 6 set of pieces namely 1 King, 1 Queen, 2 Rooks, 2 Knights, 2 Bishops and 8 pawns.
Khoi-Khoi,
It was originated in India in the 3rd century. Therefore, it is one of the oldest tag games in India, besides baddie. There are 12 players in a team and out of which 9 enter the field and others run along the field. Players face the opposite directions in a single line.
Polo
It is gone riding on horse's back. It lasted from the 6th century BC to 1st century AD. India has set the modern polo in 115th century AD by Mughal emperor. Therefore, "Sport of Kings" is the other name of this game. In some places, polo was played by riding on elephants back and hence it was called “Elephant Polo”.
Snakes and ladders
Snakes and ladder is an ancient board game. Two or more players can play is game at the same time. The boards consist of N number of ladders and snakes. Played has to roll the dice and move to space ahead of the current position, the dice will indicate the number and that number is the number of spaces a player has to move. If a player encounters a snake, the player will go to the block where the snake's tail is. If a player encounters a ladder, then the player will reach the block at the top of the ladder.
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