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Sports & games

Activities practiced for recreational purposes (fun, relaxation, health) and often taking the form of competitions sanctioned by official bodies.

COMBAT SPORTS

Sports in which two armed or unarmed opponents confront each other in combat.

boxing

Sport in which two opponents wearing gloves fight each other with their fists (English boxing) or with their fists and feet (French boxing) following a code of rules.


ring	boxer	punching bag

wrestling

Sport in which two opponents fight bare-handed and seek to pin each other to the floor using various holds.


wrestling area	wrestler	starting positions

judo

Sport of Japanese origin that is practiced with bare hands and consists of unbalancing the opponent with holds; Judo means "the gentle way".


mat	judogi	examples of holds and throws

karate

Self-defense sport of Japanese origin that is practiced with bare hands; the blows, which are usually given with the hands and the feet, must stop before reaching the opponent’s body.


competition area	karateka

kung fu

One of several types of sport of Chinese origin practiced with or without weapons; it is similar to karate but requires more legwork.


competition area	kung fu practitioner

jujitsu

Sport of Japanese origin based on throws, holds and blows to vital points of the body; it gave rise to judo.

aikido

Defensive sport of Japanese origin that consists of neutralizing an armed or unarmed opponent by means of dodging, throwing and holding, using bare hands.

kendo

Sport of Japanese origin that is a form of fencing; the opponents wear protection and fight with a bamboo saber.


competition area [1]	competition area [2]	kendoka

sumo

Japanese wrestling that is linked to Shintoism; it is practiced by very large corpulent wrestlers who try to make the opponent touch the ground or throw him out of the contest area.