Sports

We can go swimming, skiing, riding, etc. But we can also do activities like aerobics, judo, karate and athletic sports sucha s the high jump. On the other hand we play games like tennis, football or golf. Games are usually forms of sports with rules.

Sports and games are indoor or autdoor. A typical indoor game is bowling in which you roll a ball towards a group of wooden objects trying to knock down as many of them as you can. Other popular indoor games are playing darts in which you throw an arrow at a round board with numbers on it or snooker or billiards in which you try to hit different oloured balls into pockets at the edges of a table using  long stick. Indoor sports like weight-lifting, aerobics or gymnastics are done in gyms/gymnasiums. A centre where people can do all kinds of diferrent sports is called a leisure centre or a sports centre.

We usually exercise when we want our body to by healthy, to get rid of stress or to relax in an active way. Most of us are amateurs, doing sports for plasure. Achieving excelent results, some people stop being amateurs and become professionals which mean that they get paid t do a sport. They have to work very hard because tey attend many champetitions or an Olympic edal, tennis players attend tournaments at Wimbledon or Flushing Meadow.

Fairplay is controlled by referees (football, rugby, etc.) or umpires (tennis, criket, etw.). Some players try to be winners by breaking the rules in a game which they are usually punnished for. A good perfomance is supposed to be rewarded by scoring points or goals.

The most popular game for men is football (AmE soccer) when eleven players want to score or defend theri goalkeeper. Or many, football means rugby. An extraoridinary thing happened a tone rugby school in England when a sixteen-years old schoolboy simply picked up the football and started running with it during a football match. That i show the game of rugby started. Although the Irish play football as wel as rugby, they also play Gaelic football. It is like a mixture of soccer and rugby. It is played with a round ball, but player can use their hands. They can catch the ball or punc hit with a closed hand, but they canot throw it.  The ball must be lifted with a kick from the ground and if they run with the ball, they must bounce it or kick i tup from the ground every three to four steps.

Each sportsman´s dream is to tae part in the Olympics which is an international competition held eery four yeras in a defferent country. The Olympic Game sused to be the spors contests held at the Olympia in Greece in ancient times.

Moe and more people go in for active sports because a modern lifestyle expects people to be fit and healthy. Whether i tis jogging, swimming or aerobics, if we decide to take up a sport we should take into consideration our age and physical condition.