Country and sports – maturitná otázka

Country and sports 

The English like playing golf and cricket, rugby, tennis and crocquet are very popular.

The British love horse riding, they love horse racing (dostihy).

The Scots love their „Highland Olympic“ (horská olympiáda) consisting of unusual sports like throwing the hammer (hod kladivem).

The Irish like hurling, which is very similar to hockey.

The Americans are very good ice hockey players. Many people love basketball and baseball.

The Czech the most popular sports are ice hockey and football. The Czech republic has some succesfull (úspěšný) tennis players and athletes. Children like ice-skating, roller-skating and skiing.

Kind of sports:

Water sports – swimming, snorkelling (potápění se), yachting, water polo, paddling (pádlování), conoeing (veslování)

Winter sports – cross country skiing (běh na lyžích), ski jump (skoky na lyžích), snowboarding, ice skating, sledging (sáňkování), ice hockey, make a snowman (stavění sněhuláka), bobsledding (bobování)

Light atletics – hurdling (překážkový běh), marathon, high jump (skok do výšky), long jump (skok do dálky), pole vault (skok o tyči), decathlon (destiboj)

Ball games – football, volleyball, florball, basketball, tennis, handball (házená), table tennis, squash, badminton

Combat (bojové) sports – boxing, judo, karate, sumo, rugby, wrestling, fencing (šermování)

Outdoors sports – hiking (turistika), cycling, run, in-line skating, flying (létání), shooting (střelba), fishing, horse riding, mountain climbimg (horolezectví)

Sports facilities – gymnasium (tělocvična), play-ground (hřiště), tennis-court, golf course, summer stadium (letní stadion), ice-ring (zimní stadion), gym (posilovna), swimming-pool (bazén), swimming in nature (přírodní koupaliště), bowling, cycling track (cyklistická stezka), hikingpaths (stezka pro chodce)