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  2. Curling - Wikipedia

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    The ice may be natural, but is usually frozen by a refrigeration plant pumping a brine solution through numerous pipes fixed lengthwise at the bottom of a shallow pan of water. Most curling clubs have an ice maker whose main job is to care for the ice. At the major curling championships, ice maintenance is extremely important.

  3. Glossary of curling - Wikipedia

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    A team sport which involves sliding granite stones on ice and sweeping in front of them with brooms to direct them to desired placements Curling club Synonymous with club Curling pin A participation souvenir, generally worn on a sweater; there is a sub-culture at any major bonspiel built around trading pins.

  4. Winter sports - Wikipedia

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    Snow and ice during the winter time has enabled sliding as a means of transportation, using sledges, skis and skates. This also led to different pastimes and sports being developed in the winter season as compared to other times of the year. Naturally, winter sports are more popular in countries with longer winter seasons. 1901 Davos travel poster

  5. Ice canoeing, the brutal sport you never knew existed - AOL

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    Fast forward to 2017 and ice canoeing is a popular sport. In Quebec they even have their own association: the Association de Canot a Glace de Quebec, also known as ACCGQ.

  6. Category:Ice sports - Wikipedia

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    Ice stock sport This page was last edited on 19 January 2023, at 09:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  7. List of hybrid sports - Wikipedia

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    Slamball - a full-contact team hybrid sports which will combine elements of basketball, American football, ice hockey, acrobatics, and video games, played on the basketball court, surrounded by hockey-style plexiglass walls, with two sets of four trampolines at the front of net and boards around the edges of this court.

  8. Basque rural sports - Wikipedia

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    Basque rural sports, known as Deportes Rurales in Spanish or Herri Kirolak in Basque, is the term used for a number of sports competitions rooted in the traditional lifestyles of the Basque people. The term force basque is used in French .

  9. Sport in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Football is the sport with the most registered players (a total of 1,063,090 of which 997,106 are men and 77,461 women, a 55% rise in women since 2014 [7]), and highest number of registered clubs (a total of 29,205) among all Spanish sport federations according to data issued by the sports administration of Spain's government in 2020. [8]