Describing sports

Volleyball: game played by two teams, usually of six

players on a side, in which the players use their hands to
bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the
ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area
before it can be returned.

Football, also called association football or soccer,

game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of
their bodies except their hands and arms, try to maneuver
the ball into the opposing team’s goal.

Basketball, game played between two teams of five

players each on a rectangular court, usually indoors. Each
team tries to score by tossing the ball through the
opponent’s goal, an elevated horizontal hoop
and net called a basket.

American football is a game similar to rugby that is played

by two teams of eleven players using an oval-shaped ball.
Players try to score points by carrying the ball to
their opponents' end of the field, or by kicking it over
a bar fixed between two posts.

Tennis, original name lawn tennis, game in which two

opposing players (singles) or pairs of players (doubles) use
tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight,
and bounce over a net on a rectangular court.

Karate is a Japanese martial art whose physical aspects

seek the development of defensive and counterattacking
body movements.
Golf, a cross-country game in which a player strikes a
small ball with various clubs from a series of starting
points (teeing grounds) into a series of holes on a course.
skiing, recreation, sport, and mode of transportation that
involves moving over snow by the use of a pair of long, flat
runners called skis, attached or bound to shoes or boots.

snowboarding, winter sport with roots in skiing, surfing,

and skateboarding where the primary activity
is riding down any snow-covered surface while standing
on a snowboard with feet positioned roughly perpendicular
to the board and its direction, further differentiating it from
skiing, in which riders face forward.
Ice skating, the recreation and sport of gliding across
an ice surface on blades fixed to the bottoms of shoes
(skates).

Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a

surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on
the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water,
which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.