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Parent topics

• Sports [r]: Activity that involves skill and physical exertion, and is governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. ^[e]
• Asia [r]: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). ^[e]
• Olympic Council of Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Non-Olympic sports and games - events that are held as part of the Asian Games but not at the Olympics.

Sports and games

Aquatics [r]: A term for water sports taking place in the water, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming. [e] Archery [r]: An individual sport involving shooting at a target using a bow and arrow. [e] Athletics [r]: The collective term for a group of athletic events in walking, running, jumping or throwing. [e] Badminton [r]: An indoor game in which players on opposite sides of a net hit a shuttlecock with wire-strung racquets. [e] Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. [e] Basketball [r]: A ball game played between two teams of 5 players, the objective of which is to throw the ball through one of a pair of hoops fixed above each end of the playing court. [e] Billiards [r]: Game for two people using cues and played on a billiard table with three balls. The table, also used for snooker, has six pockets as targets for the balls. [e] Bowling [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Bowling (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. Boxing [r]: A combat sport between two opponents in a roped, square ring who attempt to strike each other with fists enclosed in padded gloves. [e] Canoeing [r]: Olympic sport which involves racing canoes and kayaks in various disciplines. [e] Chess [r]: 2-player board game for a checkered board; requires skill, strategy and intellect; the 1960s 3M Bookshelf game series included a version of Chess [e] Cricket (sport) [r]: An outdoor bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large grassy field. [e] Cycling [r]: The sport, recreational activity and means of transportation of riding a bicycle. [e] Dancesport [r]: Competitive ballroom dancing. [e] Dragon boat [r]: Team paddling sport using longboats, based on ancient Chinese competitive boat racing. [e] Equestrian [r]: Add brief definition or description Fencing [r]: A sport of fighting with blunted swords in accordance with set rules in order to score points. [e] Football [r]: (A.k.a. soccer in North America and Australia), a form of football played almost wholly with the feet; it is the world's most popular spectator sport. [e] Golf [r]: Game in which the players attempt, using special clubs, to sink a small, dimpled ball into each of 18 successive holes in the fewest number of strokes. [e] Gymnastics [r]: An individual, competitive sport involving the performance of acrobatic exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, gracefulness, and kinesthetic awareness. [e]

Handball [r]: Add brief definition or description Hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description Judo [r]: Add brief definition or description Kabaddi [r]: Add brief definition or description Karate [r]: Add brief definition or description Modern pentathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description Rowing [r]: Add brief definition or description Rugby [r]: Add brief definition or description Sailing [r]: Add brief definition or description Sepak takraw [r]: Add brief definition or description Softball [r]: Add brief definition or description Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description Squash (sport) [r]: Add brief definition or description Table tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description Taekwondo [r]: Add brief definition or description Tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description Triathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description Volleyball [r]: Add brief definition or description Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description Wushu [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Olympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Commonwealth Games [r]: Add brief definition or description