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  2. List of children's games - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of games that are played by children.Traditional children's games do not include commercial products such as board games but do include games which require props such as hopscotch or marbles (toys go in List of toys unless the toys are used in multiple games or the single game played is named after the toy; thus "jump rope" is a game, while "Jacob's ladder" is a toy).

  3. History of games - Wikipedia

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    History of games. Indian Ambassadors, probably sent by the Maukhari King Śarvavarman of Kannauj, present the Chaturanga chess game to Khosrau I, from "A treatise on chess", 14th century. [1][2] 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 ...

  4. Basque pelota - Wikipedia

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    Basque pelota. Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.

  5. Sport in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The Premier League. Association football is the most popular sport in almost all countries of Europe. European national teams have won 12 of 22 editions of the FIFA World Cup. Italy and Germany have won four titles each, followed by France with two titles and England and Spain, which each won the World Cup once.

  6. Calva - Wikipedia

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    Calva is a traditional sport played in certain parts of Spain. It has roots going back to pre-Roman times, being developed by the Celtiberians who lived in the modern-day provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, and Zamora. It was a game for shepherds, who threw stones at bull's horns to entertain themselves.

  7. Boules - Wikipedia

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    Boules. Boules (/ buːl /, French pronunciation: [bul]), or jeu de boules, [1] is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. 'Boules' itself is a French loanword that usually refers to the game ...

  8. Traditional Sports and Games - Wikipedia

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    Sepak takraw, a traditional Southeast Asian sport, being played at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Korea.. During the colonial era, resistance to and influence from Western sports resulted in the standardisation and introduction of organised competition for several traditional South Asian games such as kabaddi.

  9. Pétanque - Wikipedia

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    World Games. 1985 –present. Pétanque (French: [petɑ̃k] ⓘ, locally in Provence [peˈtãᵑkə]; Occitan: petanca [peˈtaŋkɔ] ⓘ; Catalan: petanca [pəˈtaŋkə, peˈtaŋka]) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, crown green bowling). In these sports, players or ...