Sport in the GB

Polo a team sport on horseback to score goals against an

opposing team Players score by driving a

small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played at speed on a large grass field up to 300 yards in length, and each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts.

Box pugilism a combat sport two people fight each

other using their fists for competition

 supervised by a referee

Rugby a style of football  originated from Rugby

School  the oval ball and the

ban on passing the ball forward

teams of 13 players and union of 15

Golf club-and-ball sport using many types of 

clubs  attempt to hit balls into

each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes.

Crocket An open-air game  two or more players

endeavor to drive wooden balls by means of mallets through a series of

hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

Squash  a racquet sport by two players by two players with a small, hollow

rubber ball

Snooker a cue sport  on a large green baize-

covered table with pockets in each of the

four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions

A regular table is 12 × 6 ft using a cue and snooker

balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours: yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7)

Tennis

Badminton

Cricket  a bat-and-ball game two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field  22-yard long pitch One team bats, trying to score

as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.

Curling a sport in which players slide

stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area

related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard.

Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards thehouse, a circular target marked on the ice

Shuffleboard sport in which players

use broom-shaped paddles to push weighted pucks, sending them gliding down a narrow and elongated court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area