AJ-3-The-categorization-of-sport-branches

National sport number one in majority of countries worldwide is football (soccer).

SPORT BRANCHES

Different sports can be grouped according to the use of similar physical activity, technique, equipment, environment or sport facility, highly specialized gear, etc.

Track and Field Athletics:

• Track events: sprints, middle-distance runs, long-distance runs, relays, hurdles, steeplechase

• Field events: throwing events (javelin throw, discus throw, hammer throw, shot put), jumping events (long jump, high jump, triple jump, pole vault)

• Road events: Marathon, walks

• Combined events: decathlon, heptathlon

Gymnastics: general gymnastics, artistic gymnastics (apparatus gymnastics), rhythmic gymnastics, acrobatics, trampoline

Games:

• Ball games (e.g. football, handball, rugby, basketball, volleyball)

• Goal games (e.g. football, handball, basketball, hockey, ice hockey)

• Racquet games (e.g. tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, baseball, softball, golf)

Aquatics: swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo

Water sports:

• Canoeing and kayaking (whitewater events and flat water events), rafting

• Surfing, windsurfing, sailing and yachting

• Rowing and sculling

Cycling sports: road cycling, track cycling, cyclo-cross, mountain biking, cyclo-trial, BMX, indoor cycling (artistic cycling, cycleball)

Ski sports: Alpine skiing, Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing, ski jumping, biathlon, Nordic combined), Freestyle skiing, Snowboarding

Sports on the ice: figure skating, speed skating, short track, ice hockey, curling, bobsleigh, luge, skeleton

Technical sports:

• Air sports: parachuting, paragliding, hang gliding, aerobatics

• Motor racing, motorcycle racing, rally, motor-cross,

• Scuba diving, water skiing, power-boating

• Shooting, archery

Combat sports and Martial Arts: wrestling, boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo, kung fu, aikido, fencing, sumo

Outdoor sports: skiing, snowboarding, cycling, canoeing, rafting, windsurfing, climbing, orienteering, hiking

Equestrian: horse racing/ the turf, steeplechase, chariot races, show jumping, dressage, military

Combined sports: Modern Pentathlon (shooting, fencing, swimming, show jumping, cross-country run), Triathlon (swimming, cycling, cross-country run), Biathlon (cross-country skiing, shooting), Nordic Combined (cross-country skiing, ski jumping), etc.

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ACTIVE AEROBICS, SPORTS, AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Active aerobics, sports, and recreational activities are physical activity categories at the second level of the physical activity pyramid. They are effective in promoting health benefits, as well as developing fitness and enhancing performance.

• Active Aerobics: Physical activities of enough intensity to produce improvements in cardiovascular fitness. They are more intense than aerobic lifestyle activities.

• Active Recreational Activities: Activities done during leisure time that do not meet the characteristics of sports. Many types of active aerobics are recreational activities.

• Sports: Typically considered to be competitive physical activities that have an organized set of rules along with winners and losers.