Sports Equipment

Information about Sports Equipment

Sports equipment includes any object used for sport or exercise.

Examples for sports include balls, goals, sticks for hockey and lacrosse, bats, wickets and bails for cricket, nets for tennis, volleyball and badminton.

Examples for exercise include swiss balls, weights, equipment for the gym.

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Physical exercise is manual activity that develops or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is often practiced to strengthen muscles and the cardiovascular system, and to hone athletic skills.
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BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is a C++ library containing common algorithms used in biochemistry and bioinformatics. The library also has Python bindings. Among the supported systems are Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows.
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A goal is a term used in many sports worldwise to denote a scoring event, and often also the physical structure that is the target for scoring.

Football (soccer)

In Association football (soccer), the word goal
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each.^[1] A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch.
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A net, in its primary meaning, comprises fibers woven in a grid-like structure, as in fishing nets, butterfly nets, cricket nets, or nets used in sporting goals in games such as soccer, basketball, Bossaball and ice hockey.
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Tennis is a game played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court.
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Volleyball

Typical volleyball action

Highest governing body FIVB
First played 1895, Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA)
Characteristics
Contact No Contact
Team Members 6
Mixed Gender Single
Category Indoor
Ball Volleyball
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Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.
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Swiss ball is a ball constructed of elastic rubber with a diameter of around 35 to 85 cm (14 to 34 inches). It is used in physical therapy and exercise.

The Swiss ball is also known by a number of different names, including exercise ball, gym ball,
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Weights are exercise equipment used for strength training. The term is commonly used as a shortened form of the term free weights, but it can also refer to any exercise machine that uses weighted plates as the major opposing force.
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GYM is a sound format for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis.

The name stands for Genesis YM2612, since the file contains the data sent to the Yamaha YM2612 sound chip in the console. The data is logged to a file through the use of emulators running a ROM image.
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Baseball equipment and clothing

Bat: A rounded, solid wooden or hollow aluminum bat. Wooden bats are traditionally made from ash wood, though maple is also sometimes used.

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A wide range of equipment is used during rock climbing. The most popular types of climbing equipment are briefly described in this article. The article on protecting a climb describes equipment commonly used to protect a climber against the consequences of a fall.
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Golf clubs are used in the sport of golf to hit a golf ball. Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a clubhead. There are many specialized designs of club, falling into three general categories: woods, used for long-distance fairway shots; irons
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specialized equipment both to facilitate the play of the game and for protection.

Background

The hard surfaces of the ice and boards, pucks flying at high speed (over 160 kilometers per hour (100 mph) at times), and other players maneuvering (and often intentionally
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Aerobars, also commonly referred to as tri-bars, are handlebars designed to reduce the cyclist's wind profile. Triathlon played a key role in the development of cycling with an aero geometry during the 1980s.
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other gear designed to protect the wearer's body or clothing from injury by electrical hazards, heat, chemicals, and infection, for job-related occupational safety and health purposes, and in
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Gliders or Sailplanes are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. See also gliding and motor gliders for more details.^[1]

Terminology

A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft.
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