Sport

Stadium

An athletic or sports ground with tiers of seats for spectators.

Field

A piece of land used for a particular purpose, especially an area marked out for a game or sport

Court

A quadrangular area, either open or covered, marked out for ball games such as tennis or squash

Pool

A small area of still water, typically one formed naturally

Gym

A place, typically a private club, providing a range of facilities designed to improve and maintain physical fitness and health

Pitch

An area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game.

Track

A prepared course or circuit for athletes, horses, motor vehicles, bicycles, or dogs to race on.

Cycling

The sport or activity of riding a bicycle. Cycle racing has three main forms: road racing (typically over long distances), pursuit (on an oval track), and cyclo-cross (over rough, open country)

Golf

A game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small holes in the ground, the object being to use the fewest possible strokes to complete the course.

Tennis

A game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court. The usual form (originally called lawn tennis) is played with a felt-covered hollow rubber ball on a grass, clay, or artificial surface.

Ping-Pong

another term for table tennis

Skiing

The action of travelling over snow on skis, especially as a sport or recreation. Competitive skiing falls into two categories: Nordic (cross-country racing, jumping, and biathlon) and Alpine (downhill or straight racing, and slalom racing round a series of markers).

Running

The sport of racing on foot.

Team

Basketball

A game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed at each end of the court.

Football

Any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American football.

Rugby

A team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand. Points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' goal line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of the opponents' goal

Volleyball

A game for two teams, usually of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court

Water polo

A seven-a-side game played by swimmers in a pool, with a ball like a football that is thrown into the opponents' net. The game developed in Britain from about 1870

Ice Hockey

A fast contact sport played on an ice rink between two teams of six skaters, who attempt to drive a small rubber disc or puck into the opposing goal with hooked or angled sticks. It developed from field hockey in Canada in the second half of the 19th century.

Helmet

A hard or padded protective hat, various types of which are worn by soldiers, police officers, motorcyclists, sports players, and others

Ball

A solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game

Stick

Goalposts or cricket stumps

Skates

short for skateboard

Racquet

A bat with a round or oval frame strung with catgut, nylon, etc., used especially in tennis, badminton, and squash

Protectores

A person or thing that protects someone or something

Puck

A black disc made of hard rubber, used in ice hockey

Net

A net supported on a cord between two posts to divide the playing area in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc

Basket

A net fixed on a hoop used as the goal

Board

The piece of equipment on which a person stands in surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and certain other sports

Sportsman

A man who takes part in a sport, especially as a professional

Sportswoman

A woman who takes part in sport, especially professionally

Coach

An instructor or trainer in sport.

Referee

An official who watches a game or match closely to ensure that the rules are adhered to and (in some sports) to arbitrate on matters arising from the play.

Athlete

A person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercise.

Competitor

A person who takes part in a sporting contest

Opponent

Someone who competes with or opposes another in a contest, game, or argument