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Traditional Sports and Games ( TSG) are physical activities which were played for centuries by people around the world before the advent of modern sports. Many TSG's lost popularity or died off during the colonial era due to the imposition and spread of Western sports. [1] [2] [3] Further decline has occurred in the post-colonial era. [4] [5] [6]
The history of games dates to the ancient human past. [3] Games are an integral part of all cultures and are one of the oldest forms of human social interaction. Games are formalized expressions of play which allow people to go beyond immediate imagination and direct physical activity.
C. List of children's games. Traditional games of China. Coconut-shell walking. Traditional games of Cuba.
Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger, [1] [2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. [3] It is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone.
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [1]
Sport in childhood. Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides opportunities to nurture physical fitness and social interaction skills. The 2005 London Marathon: running races, in their various specialties, represent the oldest and most traditional form of sport.
Highland games ( Scottish Gaelic: geamannan Gàidhealach) are events held in spring and summer in Scotland and other countries with a large Scottish diaspora, as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Certain aspects of the games are so well known as to have become emblematic of Scotland ...
e. The ancient Olympic Games ( Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia [1]) were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. They were held at the Panhellenic religious sanctuary of Olympia, in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin.