SPORTS AND GAMES

• REASONS FOR DOING SPORTS:

◦ If your family forces/ expects you to do sports, for fun, to keep relax
◦ Health reasons – keep fit, increase stamina1, losing weight, gain weight, muscle building,
for good mental health
◦ To be popular/expected, beauty reasons

• WHY IS IT GOOD FOR A CHILDREN:

◦ Gives experience, make friends, be team players, how to win/lose, cooperate, get used to
exercising, trust each other, communicate without words, how to be goal-oriented, be
ambitious

• TYPES OF SPORTS:
1. Indoor – outdoor sports:
• Squash2, table tennis, swimming, yoga, dancing, martial arts, hockey, figure
skating, curling, e-sports, weight lifting, boxing, cage fighting, handball,
basketball, gymnastics, water polo
• Skiing (snowboarding, slalom, free-style/ride, ski jump, cross-country3,
sledging4) hiking, rock climbing, horseback riding, kayaking, rowing5, sailing,
parasailing, surfing, rock/mountain, running, fishing, water skiing,
run (sprint, middle distance run/long middle distance, curling6,) high jump, long
jump, joveling throw7, discud throw8

2. Summer – winter sport:

• Water sports (Synchronized swimming, sailing), hiking, football
• Skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, speed skating, biathlon, bobsleigh

3. Individual – team sports:

• Dancing, boxing, swimming, running, ski jump, skating skateboarding
• Football, basketball, hockey, handball, tennis,

4. Extreme sports:
• bungee jumping, scuba diving, free diving, sky diving, hang gliding, extreme
ironing, parkour, rock climbing, cliff diving, mountain bike, water rafting,
whitewater kayaking, shark diving

5. Martial arts:
• karate, kung fu, jiu- jitsu, taekowondo, kempo, wrestling, krav maga (self-
defence), judo, boxing, MMA

• SPORTS VS. GAMES

◦ Sports – Includes all kinds of psychical activities in which people or groups play against
each other → swimming
◦ Games – Between or more people/teams, they play according to a set of rules, referee,
who makes sure that the players keep those rules → ballgames
1 Állóképesség növelése
2 Falabda játék
3 Sífutás
4 Szánkózás
5 Evezés
6 gátfutás
7 Gerely hajítás
8 Diszkosz vetés
 • EQUIPMENT
◦ Ball, pads (shoulder, elbow, knee, shin) helmet, mouth/ neck guard, hockey stick, hockey
puck, skates, swimming cap, nose clip9 (swimmig), tennis racket, birdie10 (badminton),
saddle (horse riding), boxing gloves, boxing ring, boxing mat, chess table, skis, ski
boots, ski pole11, trainers (brit) /sneakers (amr), golf clubs, pommel horse12, goal13,
basket14

• SPORT FIELDS/ ARENA

◦ Athletic stadium, tennis court, golf course, football pitch, ice rink, swimming pool,
running track, grass curt, hard court15

• PROFESSIONALS
◦ strict routine, strict diet, lot of pressure, a lot of traveling, homesickness, injuries, rich,
uncertain profession, coaching, how to handle fame – start drinking, using drugs, over
training, doping tests → disqualified, corruption, aggressive fans – vandalism,

• GAMES/ COMPETITIONS

1. OLYMPICS – summer, winter

• Every 4 years
• In different countries
• First held in Greece, Olympia 776 BC → lasted 5 days
→ running, boxing, wrestling, pentathlon, chariot racing
• In the past rules: competed naked, only men could participate, only men could
watch the Olympics
• 5 ring = 5 continent, flame16, make an oath17
• They got medals
• Paralympics → Olympics for disabled people
→ running, wheelchair basketball, swimming, tennis, hokey, skiing, archer

AMERICA → American football, basketball, hokey, socker, football

SLOVAKIA → floor ball, football, hokey
HUNGARIAN → Water-polo, handball, kayaking, waterspouts,

ROYALS → Shooting, krickets,

9 Orr csipesz
10 Tollas labda
11 síbot
12 Bak (bakugrás)
13 focikapu
14 Kosár (kosárlabda)
15 Aszfaltos teniszpálya
16 láng
17 eskü