A team sport includes any sport which involves players working together towards a shared

objective.

A team sport is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which
compete to win. Examples are basketball, volleyball, water polo, handball, lacrosse, cricket,
baseball, and the various forms of football and hockey.

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 object 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, dragon boat racing, and track and field 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.

The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. There are many more sports to be
added. This system has a disadvantage because some sports may fit in more than one category.

According to the World Sports Encyclopedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and
sporting games.[1]

Definition of sport:

1. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often

engaged in competitively.

2. A particular form of this activity.

3. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of

rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

4. An active pastime; recreation.

Definition of game:

1. An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime: party games;

word games.

2.
 A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each
other according to a set of rules: the game of basketball; the game of gin
rummy.

A single instance of such an activity: We lost the first game.

GAMES: An organized athletic program or contest: track-and-field

games; took part in the winter games. [like the Olympics]

A period of competition or challenge: It was too late in the game to

change the schedule of the project.

3.

The total number of points required to win a game: One hundred

points is game in bridge.

The score accumulated at any given time in a game: The game is now
14 to 12.

4. The equipment needed for playing certain games: packed the children's
games in the car.

5. A particular style or manner of playing a game: improved my tennis game

with practice.
(There are more meanings to "game" but they are not relevant)

There is an overlap between games and sports. Generally, sports require some sort of
physical effort of specialised skill while games are more organised affairs with rules.

The word game has several meanings. You can, for example, play a game of sports, but you
can't sport a game. A good example would be if you think of the Olympics. The Olympics are
referred to as a the Olympic Games yet the game is a competition to collect as many medals
as possible by partaking in specific sports.

Another example is baseball. Baseball is a sport but the Baseball World Series is a game in
which teams play the sport of baseball while their overall scores between games are tracked
for a position on a leaderboard (the game).