Team sport
Cricket is a popular team sport played at international level
Team sport includes any sport which involves people working together towards a shared objective. Some team sports are practiced between opposing teams, where the players interact directly and simultaneously between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar item in accordance with a set of rules, in order to score points.
However, other types of team sports do not involve teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar item in accordance with a set of rules, in order to score points. For example, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, and Dragon Boat Racing among others are also team sports. In other types of team sports there may not be an opposing team or point scoring, for example, mountaineering. Instead of points scored against an opposing team, the relative difficulty of the climb or walk is the measure of the achievement.
Olympic team sports
33 sports are currently on the program of the Summer Olympics;[1] six of these are team sports. Ice hockey and curling are the only team sports at the Winter Olympics. Another team sport, rugby union, last played in 1924 with men's competition only, will return in 2016 with tournaments for both sexes.
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See also
- United States at the team sports international competitions
- Olympic sports
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