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Cue sports, also known as billiards sports or pool sports, are popular in Asia, particularly in East and South Asian nations with Eight Balls, Nine Balls and Snooker being the most popular types. The Asian Confederation of Billiard Sports is the main governing body in Asia. Cue sports are played in the Asian Games and
India vs Iran at the 2023 Asian Kho Kho Championship.Kho kho is South Asia's second-most popular tag game. After the British colonisation of the subcontinent which peaked from the 19th century to 1947, Western sports such as cricket, football, and hockey began to be followed to a greater extent, to the detriment of the traditional games.
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 standardization and introduction of organized competition for several traditional South Asian games such as kabaddi.
Kabaddi, a native South Asian sport, made its inaugural appearance at the Asian Games in 1990. Many sports are played in South Asia, with cricket being the most popular of them; 90% of the sport's worldwide fans live in South Asia. [1] Football is followed passionately in some parts of South Asia, [2] [3] such as Kerala and Bengal.
In post-Independent India, the traditional sports' popularity has greatly declined with the further growth of Western sports and online gaming. [60] Kabaddi is the most popular traditional sport, with the highest viewership and most career opportunities; its growth was spurred on by the creation of the Pro Kabaddi League. [61]
Traditional sports with distinct Chinese characteristics are also very popular, including martial arts, taijiquan (shadow boxing), qigong (deep breathing exercises), xiangqi (Chinese chess), weiqi (known as "Go" in the West) and Mahjong. Taijiquan is a kind of Chinese boxing, combining control of breath, mind and body. It emphasizes body ...
In this game, one player is the eagle, another player is the chicken, and the remaining players are chicks. The chicks form a line behind the chicken by holding each other's waists, and the goal of the eagle is to tag the chicks, while the chicken tries to prevent this by holding their arms out and moving around.
South Asian games (5 C) K. ... Sports originating in South Asia (4 C, 16 P) T. Traditional sports of Bangladesh (2 C, 11 P) Traditional sports of Pakistan (2 C, 9 P)