Sports and games are activities that are well known for everybody of us. People started to do sports and play games many years ago, but the biggest boom was in this century. With coming of new technologies people got new possibilities and new ideas how to spend their spare time for pleasure, but only for it. People do the sports because they want to keep fit, build their muscles and make their body better for look. It is also very good (the best) kind of relaxation. It helps to keep our mental health in order. The majority of people do the sports as a hobby but some people do the sport as a job.
The USA
When you want to do some sport you firstly need to know the rules. If don’t know it you may be sent off the play or you don’t achieve the best results (score) you could. You nearly always need some equipment for doing it. For instance when you play golf you has to have lot of equipment – different kinds of sticks, balls, special trolley. For some sports you don’t need nearly anything, just your body (volleyball – only good shoes and kneecap).
The Olympic Games
Wimbledon – the most famous tennis tournament in the world, Czech republic belong to the first class, it takes place in GB
World Championships in F1, hockey, football, World Cups...
I think that nearly everybody is very happy, people celebrate, they realise that they are Czech – they are proud of this country, it can join people who don’t like each other together. The country became known all over the world. (the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Jan Želazný – throwing the javelin, Jana Novotná, Petr Korda, Ivan Lendl)...
I like doing sport. I used to play tennis for ten years but I stopped doing this, because it was more and more expensive. Now I play table tennis, volleyball, and basketball. I like florball very much but I have nowhere to do that. Last year I start doing roller-skating. I’d like to improve in it. There is not enough equipment in Hlučín. But in Ostrava there is very good skate park with special equipment like funbox, radius, U-ramp etc.
Someone can found in boring but I like doing and inventing new figures which are more difficult and sometimes more dangerous. I’d like to try squash as well. When I have lots of money I will try bungee-jumping. It must be exciting. Or I’ll try paraschoting, it must be greatfull to fall down through air. I also like swimming. I can swim for a long time but I am not very fast. I do cycling very often. I like cycling to far distances. In winter I play ice hockey. I don’t know why but I hate football. It’s an only one sport I really don’t like. It’s maybe because when I was smaller everybody used to play football but I used to play tennis.
In generally it isn’t important to win. It’s important to take part in. I don’t do sport to beat someone I do it because it’s fun, because I like it, to relax, forgot about everything. But it’s great to win. You know that you are good at it and that you are better than someone else ant it gives you self-confidence. I often lose but I don’t mind it because I know that someone is better than me and I can learn from him. For someone is very important to win so he use steroids to insure himself. There was for example big affair with Petr Korda last year.
athlete atlet
athletics track ateltická dráha
boxing ring boxerský ring
football pitch fotbalové hřiště
golf course golfová dráha
health zdraví
lifeguard plavčík
medal medajle
referee rozhodčí
runner, sprinter běžec
skating rink kluziště
ski slope lyžařský svah
stadium stadión
stamina vytrvalost
start line startovní čára
strength síla
swimming pool bazén
tennis court tenisový kurt
track dráha
vitality vitalita, životní síla
Equipment:
bat pálka
beam kladina
box švédská bedna
climbing ropes lana na šplhání
club pálka
cricket/baseball bat pálka na criket/baseball
croquet/polo mallet palice na kriket/pólo
dumb-bells činky
goal branka, brána; gól
golf club golfová hůl
hockey stick hokejka
hoop obruč
hurdles překá_ky
landing mat žíněnka
net síť
parallel bars bradla
racket raketa
relay štafetový kolík
rings kruhy
seats lavičky
skipping-rope švihadlo
spikes tertry
starting block startovní blok
stopwatch stopky
vaulting horse kůň (nářadí)
wall bars žebřiny
Sports:
aviation, flying létání
archery lukostřelba
athletics atletika
badminton badminton
ball throwing vrh koulí
baseball baseball
basketball košíková
billiards, snooker kulečník
bowling kuželky
boxing box
canoeing kanoistika
car racing formule
climbing horolezectví
competitive walking závodní chůze
croquet kroket
cross-country skiing přespolní lyžování
cycling cyklistika
darts šipky
diving potápění
down-hill skiing sjezd
fancy diving skoky do vody
fencing šerm
fishing, angling rybolov
floorball, florbal
football fotbal
gliding bezmotorové létání
golf golf
gymnastics gymnastika
handball házená
hand gliding létání na kluzáku
high jump skok vysoký
hiking pěší turistika
hockey hokej
horse riding jezdectví
chess šachy
javelin throw vrh oštěpem
judo judo
karate karate
long jump skok daleký
marathon maratón
motorcycling motocyklistika
mountaineering horolezectví
pole vault skok o tyči
powertraining posilování
relay race štafetový běh
roller-skating jízda na koleč. bruslích
rowing veslování
rugby ragby
scrambling motokros
shooting střelba
skating bruslení
skiing lyžování
ski-jump skoky na lyžích
slalom slalom
sledding sáňkování
soccer fotbal (v USA)
sprint sprint
squash squash
steeplechase překážkový běh
swimming plavání
table–tennis stolní tenis
tennis tenis
throwing the discus hod diskem
triple jump trojskok
volleyball voleybal
water polo vodní pólo
water skiing vodní lyžování
weight lifting vzpírání
windsurfing windsurfing
wrestling zápas
yachting jachtink