32 Most Popular Sports in the World

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Sport is a competitive activity governed by many rules and regulations. Sports are commonly called activities where the physical ability of the competitor is the sole or primary determinant of the outcome of the game. Sports are generally defined as an organized, competitive and trained physical activity, with commitment and fairness.

Industrialization has also led to increased leisure time for citizens of developed and developing countries, allowing citizens to participate in sporting events and reach the grounds as spectators, participate and participate more in athletic activities. These trends continued with the proliferation of mass media and global media.Professionalism prevailed, leading to an increase in the popularity of sports, as sports fans began to enjoy the game of professional players through radio, television and the Internet. Apart from this, the custom of enjoying amateur participation in exercise and sports also increased.

Despite being a form of entertainment for the game participants, many games are played in front of the audience. Most professional sports are played under some kind of ‘theater’, a stadium, grounds, golf course, race track, or open road for general public viewing. Often there is a provision of tickets for them.

The game now also attracts large TV viewers or radio listeners, as rival broadcasters bid large sums for ‘rights’ broadcasting certain sports. The Football World Cup attracts millions of TV viewers worldwide, such as the 2006 finals alone attracted 700 million viewers worldwide. NFL championship game in USA Super Bowl- became one of the most watched television broadcasts of the year. Super Bowl Sunday, in a way, becomes a national holiday in the US, with viewership so high that in 2007 it received $ 2.6 million in ads for every 30-second slot.

So today we will tell you about some popular games for which people around the world are crazy –

 


1

Football (Soccer)

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Football - फुटबॉल

Association football, more commonly known as football (especially in countries where association football is the only popular code of football) or soccer (originally also spelled foot-ball), is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of 11 players. It is played by approximately...Read More

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Cricket

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Cricket - क्रिकेट

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat...Read More

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Field hockey

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Field Hockey - फील्ड हॉकी

Field hockey is a widely played team sport of the hockey family. The game can be played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf or synthetic field, as well as an indoor boarded surface. Each team plays with ten field players and a goalkeeper. Players use sticks made of wood, carbon fibre, fibre glass,...Read More

4

Tennis

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Tennis - टेनिस

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent’s...Read More

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Volleyball

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Volleyball - वॉलीबॉल

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964.
The complete...Read More

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Basketball

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Basketball - बास्केटबॉल

Basketball, colloquially referred to as hoops, is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender’s...Read More

7

Table Tennis

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Table Tennis - टेबल टेनिस

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, the rules...Read More

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Baseball

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Baseball - बेसबॉल

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team)...Read More

9

Rugby Union

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Rugby Union - रग्बी यूनियन

Rugby union, widely known simply as rugby, is a full-contact team sport that originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players...Read More

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Golf

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Golf - गॉल्फ़

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not utilize a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different...Read More

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Formula One

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Formula One - फ़ॉर्मूला वन

Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international auto racing for single-seater racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). The series is owned by Liberty Media, an American mass media company controlled by its founder and...Read More

12

Boxing

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Boxing - मुक्केबाज़ी

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time in a boxing ring.
Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a standard fixture in most international games—it also has...Read More

13

Sport of athletics

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एथलेटिक्स (खेल) Sport of athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking.
The results of racing events are decided by finishing position...Read More

Athletics ( Track and field) - एथलेटिक्स - (ट्रैक एंड फील्ड )

Track and field (Athletics) is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized...Read More

MMA - एम एम ए

Mixed martial arts (MMA) sometimes referred to as cage fighting, is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports and martial arts from around the world. The first documented use of the term mixed martial arts was...Read More

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American Football

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American Football - अमेरिकन फुटबॉल

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down...Read More

Moto GP - मोटो जीपी

Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held since the start of the twentieth century and large national events were...Read More

18

Ice hockey

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Ice Hockey - आइस हॉकी

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 vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent’s net to score goals. The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical, with teams usually fielding six players at a time:...Read More

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Badminton

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Badminton - बैडमिंटन

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are “singles” (with one player per side) and “doubles” (with two players per side). Badminton is often played...Read More

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Cycling

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Cycling - साइकिलिंग

Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, time trialling, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling sports include artistic cycling, cycle polo, freestyle...Read More

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Swimming

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Swimming - स्विमिंग

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one’s entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke,...Read More

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Gymnastics

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जिम्नास्टिक्स Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from...Read More

23

Wrestling

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कुश्ती Wrestling

Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The sport can either be genuinely competitive or sportive entertainment (see professional wrestling). Wrestling comes in different types such...Read More

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Horse Racing

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Horse Racing घुड़दौड़

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance, for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic premise – to identify which of two or more horses is the...Read More

25

Snooker

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Snooker - स्नूकर

Snooker is a cue sport that originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century. It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth (or “baize”), with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side. Using...Read More

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Skiing

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Skiing - स्कीइंग

Skiing is a means of transport using skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International Ski Federation (FIS).

27

Shooting

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Shooting - शूटिंग

Shooting sports is a collective group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using various types of ranged firearms, mainly referring to man-portable guns (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns,...Read More

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Kabaddi

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Kabaddi - कबड्डी

Kabaddi is a contact team sport. Played between two teams of seven players, the objective of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a “raider”, to run into the opposing team’s half of a court, tag out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their...Read More

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Hurling

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Hurling - हर्लिंग

Hurling (Irish: iománaíocht, iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland’s native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players, and much terminology. There is a similar...Read More

30

Handball

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हैंडबॉल Handball

Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two...Read More

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Bowling

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Bowling - बॉलिंग

Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term bowling usually refers to ten-pin bowling, though in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries bowling could also refer to lawn bowls.Read More

32

Chess

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Chess

Chess is a board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi and shogi. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from chaturanga,...Read More

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