Sports that Originated in the UK

Football
• Football is a family of team sports that involve,
to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot
to score a goal.
 Rugby
• Rugby union, commonly
known in most of the world
as rugby, is a contact team
sport which originated in
England in the first half of
the 19th century.
Cricket

• Cricket is a bat-and-
ball game played
between two teams of
eleven players each on
a cricket field, at the
centre of which is a
rectangular 22-yard-
long pitch with a target
called the wicket at
each end.
 Hockey
• Hockey is a sport
in which two
teams play against
each other by
trying to
maneuver a ball
or a puck into the
opponent's goal
using a hockey
stick.
 Curling
• Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on
a sheet of ice towards a target area which is
segmented into four concentric circles. It is related
to bowls, boules and shuffleboard.
 Tennis

• Tennis is a racket sport that can be played

individually against a single opponent (singles) or
between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Badminton
• Badminton is a racquet sport
played using racquets to hit a
shuttlecock across a net.
Although it may be played
with larger teams, the most
common forms of the game
are "singles" and "doubles".
 Squash
• Squash is a ball sport
played by two or four
players in a four-walled
court with a small, hollow
rubber ball. The players
must alternate in striking
the ball with their racket
and hit the ball onto the
playable surfaces of the
four walls of the court.
 Boxing
• Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually
wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for
a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.
 Table tennis

• Table tennis, also known as ping pong, is a sport in which

two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth
across a table using a small bat.