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Athletics
Generally an individual sport that tests one’s running (100m dash), jumping (long jump and high jump) and throwing prowess (shot put and javelin). |
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Badminton
A racquet sport played by two opposing players or two opposing pairs who aim to score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it lands in their opponents’ half of the court. |
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Chess
The object of this board game is to “checkmate” the opponent’s king, whereby the king is under attack and there’s no way to defend it from attack on the next move. |
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Football
A team sport played between two teams of 11 players. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal. Players, except the goalie, are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms. |
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Gymnastics
An activity and sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, coordination, balance and grace. |
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Scrabble*
A word game wherein two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked by a 15-by-15 grid.
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Sepak Takraw*
Also called “kick volleyball”, because it resembles the sport volleyball, but players are only allowed to use their feet.
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Swimming
The goal of this aquatic sport is to propel oneself in water to complete a given distance in the shortest time possible. |
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Table Tennis (also known as Ping Pong)
A sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with a racket. |
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Taekwondo
Also known as “the way of the foot and the fist”. It is now considered as the world’s most popular martial art in terms of practitioners. |
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Tennis
An Olympic sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each. Each player uses a racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball into the opponent’s side of the court. |
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Volleyball
An Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 players try to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. |