SPORTS AND GAMES A.

SPORTS AND GAMES A.

Sports are one of the most popular leisure time activities. Doing sports keeps us healthy, relaxed, as well as maintains our figure and strengthens our endurance. During sports events one can meet a lot of new people and see how it feels to be a winner or a loser.

Sports can be divided into two groups according to where they can be done. Indoor sports include for example gymnastics, table tennis, boxing, wrestling etc. On the other hand, outdoor sports are skiing (down-hill, cross-country, ski jump), sledding, hiking, rock climbing, horse riding, riding a mountain bike, golf, and some aquatic sports such as rowing or windsurfing.

However, most sports and almost all games can be done both indoors and outdoors. Meetings in all the track and fields events (sprints, middle and long distance runs, hurdling, high and long jump, pole vault, shot put, javelin and discus throw) take place in summer stadiums as well as in athletic halls. Also one of the healthiest sports, swimming, and figure skating do not actually demand a roofed room. One can easily recognize that those sports which can be done only on ice or snow (skating, skiing etc.) are winter sports whereas all the rest we call summer or all-season sports.