Use dmy dates date December 2011 Image Perspectiva bossaball.svg 180px thumb Bossaball court Image Bossaball wiki 3.jpg thumb 250px Bossaball court. The white areas in the center are the trampolines Image Bossaball 102.jpg thumb 250px Attacker about to spike Image Bossaball wiki 2.jpg thumb 250px Serving the ball with the foot Bossaball is a sport invented in Spain by Filip Eyckmans who developed the concept 2004. ref cite web url http www.bossaballsports.com en home about us title Bossa Sports publisher Bossaballsports.com date 18 October 2011 accessdate 17 December 2011 ref It is similar to volleyball, but also includes elements of football soccer , gymnastics and capoeira . ref cite web url http www.abc.net.au rollercoaster dash wowsports bossaball.htm title World of Weird Sports publisher ABC location Australia accessdate 17 December 2011 ref Each side of the court has an integrated trampoline , allowing players to bounce high enough to spike the ball. Bossaball clubs exist in various countries including Brazil, ref cite web url http www.estado.com.br suplementos viag 2007 01 30 viag ... 2007 accessdate 17 December 2011 ref Germany, ref cite web url http www.openpr.de news 209220 Bossaball ... Ben John url http www.sportservice berlin.de bossab index.php title Bossaball Team Berlin publisher ... web url http www.andalucia.com sports bossaball.htm title on bossaball publisher Andalucia.com accessdate ... cite web url http www.iaa.ro Articole Stiri Orangina bossaball tour campanie de 100.000 de euro 711.html title Orangina Bossaball tour Romania publisher Iaa.ro date 7 August 2007 accessdate 17 December ... www.eldiario.com.ec noticias manabi ecuador 68008 title bossaball in El Diario Ecuador publisher Eldiario.com.ec ... Official Bossaball website Team Sport Category Team sports Category Ball games Category Volleyball ar da Bossaball es Bossaball fr Bossaball gl Bossaball it Bossaball lt Bosabolas nl Bossaball ja pt Bossaball ... more details
Multiple issues notability July 2011 original research July 2011 orphan July 2011 unreferenced July 2011 This is a list of activities that involve acrobatics . Acro dance Acrobalance Acrobatic gymnastics Acroyoga Adagio circus skill Adagio Aerobatics Aerial tissu Bossaball Capoeira Contortion Corde lisse Diving Globe of death Gymnastics Handstand Hooping Hopak Juggling Parkour Pole climbing Professional wrestling Russian bar Salto del pastor Skateboarding Skiing Snowboarding Spanish web Surfing Synchronized swimming Tightrope walking Trampolining Trapeze Tumbling gymnastics Tumbling Wushu sport Wushu Waterskiing Category Acrobatic sports ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Footbag net is a sport in which players kick a footbag over a five foot high net. Players may use only the feet. Any contact knee or above is a foul. The game is played individually and as doubles. Footbag net combines elements of tennis , badminton , and volleyball . Specifically, the court dimensions and layout are similar to those of doubles badminton the scoring is sideout scoring you must be serving to score and serves must be diagonal, as in tennis. Footbag net games can be played to eleven or fifteen points, although the winners must win by at least two points. Footbag net is governed by the International Footbag Players Association IFPA . Competitions take place all over the world, but primarily in North America and Europe. The World Footbag Championships is an annual, week long event held in a different city each year. The 2012 IFPA Championships will be held in Warsaw, Poland recent editions were held in Helsinki, Finnland 2011 , Oakland California, USA 2010 Berlin, Germany 2009 and Prague, Czech 2008 . See also Organizational website http www.footbag.org Rules of the game http www.footbag.org reference Footbag Net Rules Similar games include Footvolley Jianzi Bossaball Sepak Takraw Sipa Team Sports DEFAULTSORT Footbag Net Category Footbag Category Team sports Category Ball games Ball sports stub fi Verkkofootbag ... more details
Track events High jump , in which athletes jump over horizontal bars. Hurdling , a foot race in which runners leap over hurdles. Long jump , where the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible. Triple jump , the objective is to leap horizontally as far as possible, in a series of three jumps. Sports American football Association football soccer in U.S. and Canada Australian Rules football Badminton Basketball Bossaball Cheerleading Dancing Diving Figure skating Gymnastics Jump rope Martial arts Parkour Racquetball Rugby football Rugby Skateboarding Skiing Squash sport Squash Swimming sport Swimming Table tennis Team Handball Tennis Trampolining Ultimate sport Ultimate Volleyball Jumping Jack Animal sports File Muybridge horse jumping animated.gif thumb Early motion picture of a horse jumping Dog agility , in which a dog traverses various obstacles, including jumps. Show jumping and Eventing , competitions where a horse jumps over fences. Fox hunting , in which horses and fox hounds jump over fences and other obstacles. Clear Category Locomotion biological Category Sports science ... more details
unreferenced date October 2010 File Cargo net 01.jpg thumb A cargo net being used to unload sacks from a ship at Haikou New Port , Haikou City, Hainan , China Image Bird netting.jpg thumb 150px Bird netting on wine grapes. A net , in its primary meaning, comprises fibers woven in a grid like structure. It blocks the passage of large items, while letting small items and fluids pass. It requires less material than something sheet like, and provides a degree of Transparency and translucency transparency . Examples include cargo net s, fishing net s, butterfly net s, cricket nets , bird netting or nets used in sporting Goal sport goals in games such as soccer , basketball , Bossaball and ice hockey . A net also separates opponents in various net sports such as volleyball , tennis , badminton , and table tennis , where the ball or shuttlecock must go over the net to remain in play. The adjectives reticulated and retiary both mean net like . Animal species such as the Reticulated Giraffe and Reticulated Python have net like body markings. Most of the other meanings of the term arise by analogy with the use above. Safety net is also used figuratively, see e.g. social safety net . See also Use of animals during the Gravettian period Use of nets Submarine Anti submarine net Anti submarine net Net laying ship Netgun New Jersey Nets wiktionary net tool stub Category Nets devices sq Rrjeta te ru zh ... more details
Other uses Sipa lit. kick or to kick is the Philippines traditional native sport which predates Spanish rule. The game is related to Sepak Takraw . Similar games include Footbag net , Footvolley , Bossaball and Jianzi . The game is both played by two teams, indoors or outdoors, on a court that is about the size of a tennis court. The teams consist of one, two or four players in each side. The aim of the game is to kick a soft ball made out of rattan fragments, back and forth over a Net device net in the middle of the court. The sport requires speed , agility and ball control. Washer version One version of Sipa uses a metal washer covered with cloth, which gets kicked. This version is played by both girls and boys, but girls tend to use the outside of their foot to manipulate the washer, while boys more often use the inside of the foot. Points are scored based on the number of kicks without the ball touching the ground. If the ball touches the ground one point is awarded to the opposing team. Rattan ball version This version uses a larger rattan woven ball with the same foot action. Sipa balls can be purchased online, which look like Hacky Sack balls. Originally, the rattan Sipa ball was 10 centimeters in diameter and made of woven rattan strips with symmetrical holes. The most defining feature of the game of Sipa is that the ball should only be touched with the legs anywhere from below the knee to the tip of the toes. The rattan ball can touch the ground. Simplified play one on one, two on two, three on three, or four on four A set of rules determines penalty points such as the ball bouncing twice on the ground . The two teams play against each other until a set number of penalty points is reached by one of the teams. There is also a court version in which a rectangle is marked in grids. Grids denote zones, and dictate where players stand, and how points are allotted based on where the ball lands in the court. This game requires much coordination. Sources cite book ... more details
Infobox sport image Game of Sepaktakraw at a match in Strasbourg.jpg imagesize 260px caption union International Sepaktakraw Federation ISTAF nickname first 15th century registered clubs contact team 3 mgender single category Indoor, beach ball rattan ball olympic No Sepak takraw Malaysian language Malay sepak takraw also known as sepak raga Tamil language Tamil or lang th wikt , RTGS takro Lao language Lao wikt ka taw Filipino language Filipino sipa Vietnamese language Vietnamese c u m y , ref name kelley cite web author Shawn Kelley year url http www.tatnews.org emagazine 2813.asp title Takraw A Traditional Southeast Asian mostly in Malaysia Sport accessdate July 30, 2007 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20070710234948 http www.tatnews.org emagazine 2813.asp Bot retrieved archive archivedate July 10, 2007 ref or kick volleyball, is a sport native to the Malay Peninsula Malay Thai Peninsula . ref Cite book title Sport in Asian society past and present pages 220 author J. A. Mangan, Fan Hong isbn 978 0 7146 8330 0 year 2002 publisher Frank Cass Publishers ref Sepak takraw differs from the similar sport of volleyball in its use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. It is a popular sport in Southeast Asia . In Malaysia , the game is called sepak raga or takraw . It is also thuck thay Lao language Lao twine and kick ref name kelley while in Thailand it is sometimes called takraw . In Myanmar it is known as chin lone . In the Philippines it is known as sipa , meaning kick . Similar games include footbag net , footvolley , football tennis , bossaball , jianzi and sipa . These similar games all involve keepie uppie s. Etymology Sepak is the Malay language Malay word for kick and takraw is the Thai language Thai word for a woven ball, therefore sepak takraw quite literally means to kick ball. The choosing of this name for the sport was essentially a compro ... more details
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sports Sport &ndash a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively, sports can be played on land, in water and in the air. TOC limit limit 2 What is a sport? Sports can be described as all of the following Entertainment &ndash Exercise &ndash some sports are physical exercise while others are mental exercise . Recreation &ndash Types of sports Amateur sports Athletic sports Blood sport Demonstration sport Disabled sports Extreme sports Fantasy sports Female sport Individual sport Professional sports Spectator sport Team sport Physical sports Air sports File Lima Lima.jpg thumb right Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville, Kentucky Louisville . Main Air sports Aerobatics Gliding competitions Aerobatics Gliding aerobatics Air racing Hot air ballooning Ballooning Cluster ballooning Hopper balloon ing File Wingsuit 01.jpg thumb right Wingsuit flying Gliding Hang gliding Powered hang glider Human powered aircraft Model aircraft Parachuting Banzai skydiving BASE jumping Skysurfing Wingsuit flying Paragliding Powered paragliding Ultralight aviation Archery File Kyudo or the way of archery.jpg thumb right Members of the Gotemba Ky d Association demonstrate Ky d . Main Archery Clout archery Field archery Flight archery Gungdo Ky d Popinjay sport Target archery Ball over a net games File Europei di pallavolo 2005 Italia Russia.jpg thumb right An international match of Volleyball . Ball badminton Biribol Bossaball Fistball Footbag net Football tennis Footvolley Hooverball Jianzi Newcomb ball Peteca Sepak takraw Sipa Throwball Volleyball Beach volleyball Paralympic volleyball Basketball family File Dwigth Howard olympics2008.jpg thumb right Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at 2008 Summer Olympic Games Basketball Beach basketball Deaf basketball FIBA 33 Streetball Water basketball Wheelchair basketball Bounceball Korfbal ... more details
Other uses pp move indef File Football4.png right thumb Some of the many different games known as football. From top left to bottom right Association football or soccer, Australian rules football , International rules football , rugby union , rugby league , and American football . Football refers to a number of team sport sport s that involve, to varying degrees, Kick football kicking a Football ball ball with the foot to score a Goal sport goal . The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football , more commonly known as just football or soccer . Unqualified, the word Football word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football , Australian rules football , Canadian football , Gaelic football , rugby league , rugby union ref cite journal last Reilly first Thomas coauthors Gilbourne, D. title Science and football a review of applied research in the football code journal Journal of Sports Science year 2003 volume 21 pages 693 705 ref and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes . Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to English public school football games the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. ref cite web title History of Rugby in Australia url http www.rugbyfootballhistory.com wallabies.html 3 publisher Rugby Football History accessdate 11 January 2012 ref ref cite journal last Bailey first Steven title Living Sports History Football at Winchester, Eton and Harrow journal The Sports Historian year 1995 volume 15 issue 1 pages 34 53 ref The influence and power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread, including to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire, ref cite journal las ... more details
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