Sport and Games

Sport and Games

Sports are very good for active relaxation and are important for our psychical and mental health. There are lost of type of sports and games. We can practise outdoor and indoor sports, in water or anywhere we want. And also we have special sports for summer and winter season.

Something about sport in Britain:

The British invented (vynalezli) and codified (zavedli) the rules of many sports and games witch are now played all over the word – football, rugby, hockey, cricket, golf, boxing, tennis and other. Major annual (každoroční) sporting events (událostí) in Britain are also major event in the international sport Wimbledon. Wimbledon is one of the four international sports grand (největších) tennis tournaments.

Outdoor sports are as follows (následující):

Golf, skiing “for example: cross-country (běh na běžkách), down-hill, slalom, ski-jump”, sledding (sáňkování), windsurfing, marathon-running, fishing, climbing (horolezectví),

hiking (turistika) or tourism, mountaineering (vysokohorská turistika), horse riding, car race.

Indoor sports include (zahrnují):

Table-tennis, gymnastic, chess, ball sports, athletic “sprint, high jump, long jump, javelin throw (hod oštěpem), ball throw (hod koulí)”, tennis, shooting, skateboarding and skating (bruslení) “figure skating (krasobruslení), speed skating and roller skating (jízda na kolečkových bruslích)”.

Some from these sports may by practise for outdoor and indoor. There are also aquatic sports: water skiing, swimming, diving, water polo, yachting, canoeing, and rowing (veslování).

Then we have Baal games. Ball games are popular all around the world – basketball, volleyball, football (called soccer in America), tennis, handball (házená). Millions of people like match watch them on TV and listen on radio.

General summer sports are as follows: Swimming, tennis, skateboarding, skating, horst riding and other. General Winter sports include: Skiing, snowboarding, sledding, skating and other.

All these sports are included (zahrnuty) to the Olympic Games. The Olympic Games are the most famous and interesting sport event. They are held (konají se) every four years. They have winter a summer parts which chance once every two years.