Sports are divided into major groups. The first place in terms of the number of disciplines is taken by game competitions. The second place is taken by the classics - athletics and weightlifting, martial arts, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics. In third place are the increasingly popular extreme sports. In addition, there are specialized sports competitions: auto and motorcycle racing, cycling, shooting, skiing, swimming, etc.
Game sports
Game sports are the most popular. Their audience and number of fans is unmatched. There is no person in the world who does not know about football, hockey, basketball. Billions of spectators watch the world championship openings and final games.
American football, rugby, baseball, volleyball, bandy are no less famous. The main distinguishing feature of team sports is entertainment. This explains the popularity and the number of people who practice them on an amateur level. Opening of children's and youth schools, sections, clubs, giving the opportunity to engage in team play professionally.
Classic sports
In terms of entertainment, athletics is comparable to team games: running at various distances, long jump, high jump, pole vault. Throwing shells: disc, spear, hammer.
Weightlifting sets itself the task of record-breaking weight lifting in the press, snatch and clean and jerk barbell standing. This includes kettlebell lifting, bodybuilding.
All types of wrestling belong to martial arts: classical, sambo, judo. Amateur and professional boxing. National martial arts: karate, taekwondo, jiu jitsu, hand-to-hand combat. Fencing with swords, foils, sabers.
Artistic gymnastics is the execution of a complex acrobatic program. Performances on classic sports equipment: horse, crossbar, parallel bars, rings. Jumping over a projectile with a running start, with the execution of acrobatic elements in the air.
Rhythmic gymnastics is represented among women. This is the performance of gymnastic exercises with musical accompaniment, showing the flexibility and grace of the body.
Extreme sports
This is a life-threatening sport. Dangerous and unpredictable. Extreme sports include: mountaineering, rock climbing, acrobatic freestyle, giant slalom, moto acrobatics, mountainboarding, diving, flyboarding. Surfing is a particularly fast-growing and popular sport among young people. New directions and trends in the extreme section appear daily.
Specialized sports
- Swimming for long and sprint distances with breaststroke, crawl, mixed style. Synchronized swimming: single, doubles, team. Jumping into the water from a 3, 5, 10 m tower.
- Cross-country skiing, ski jumping. Biathlon. Snowboard.
- Skating. Short track. Figure skating. Curling.
- Cycling. Cycling tours with stages up to 250 km and team pursuit races.
- Auto and motorcycle racing: road-ring, rally, cross. World famous races are> and rallies>.
- Luge: bobsleigh, skeleton.
- Tennis, ping pong.
There are about 200 species in total. And every day there are more and more of them.
