Winter Sports
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*Snowboarding is a
recreational activity
and Olympic and
Paralympic sport that
involves descending a
snow-covered slope
while standing on a
snowboard attached
to a rider's feet.
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*Skiing is a mode
of transport,
recreational
activity and
competitive
winter sport in
which the
participant uses
skis to glide on
snow.
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*Ice skating is the
act of moving on ice
by using ice skates.
It can be done for a
variety of reasons,
including exercise,
leisure, traveling,
and various sports
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*Ice hockey is a
contact team sport
played on ice,
usually in a rink, in
which two teams of
skaters use their
sticks to shoot a
rubber puck into
their opponent's net
to score point
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*Cycling, also
called
bicycling or
biking, is the
use of bicycles
for transport,
recreation,
exercise or
sport
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*Swimming is a sport
in which an
individual moves
through water by
kicking and using the
arms.
*The earliest record
of swimming as a
sport or physical
exercise dates to
about 100,000 years
ago.
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*Football is a
family of team
sports that
involve, to
varying degrees,
kicking a ball
with the foot to
score a goal.
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*Beach volleyball
is a team sport
played by two
teams of two
players on a
sand court
divided by a net.
It has been an
Olympic
discipline since
the 1996 Games.