Enjoy Ball Game for Body Fitness

Many popular games or sports involving some type of ball or similar object also provide a lot of fitness benefits. These games can be grouped by the general objective of the game, sometimes indicating a common origin either of a game itself or of its basic idea like Bat and ball games, two goal games, etc.

Here are some games around the world, which are very common for fitness and entertainment also.

Baseball

Baseball is a game played between two teams of nine players each. The game is divided into nine innings, each divided into two halves. The players of one team successively come to bat and attempt to score runs, while the other team plays in the field and attempt to stop the offensive team from scoring. The game is played on a diamond-shaped playing field, the four corners of the diamond being formed by home plate, first base, second base and third base.

Basketball

Basketball is athletic sport, usually played on an indoor court in which two competing teams of five layers each attempt to score by throwing an inflated ball so that it descends through one of two baskets suspended, at each end of the court, above their heads. Although basketball can be played outdoors, it was invented to serve as an exciting indoor exercise. Because of its continuous action and frequent scoring, basketball is one of the most popular spectator as well as participant sports in the world.

Billiards, Pool and Snooker

These games are played on rectangular tables twice as long as they are wide, with balls propelled by tapered, leather-tipped rods called cues. Lining the perimeter of the tables are rubber cushions from which the balls rebound. Balls, once made of ivory, are now composed of a hard compound. The white ball that the player strikes with the tip of the cue is the cue ball. Other balls, which may be colored, are called object balls.

Cricket

Cricket is a bat and ball sport, played between two teams of eleven players each on a grass field roughly oval in shape, in the center of which is a pitch having wickets at each end. Bowler propels a leather ball from one wicket towards the other. Batsman defends the wicket from the ball with cricket bat. The batsman runs between the wickets to score runs and field is saved from the boll for crossing by fielders. It is well common and most played in the countries including Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and West Indian nations etc and the most popular one.

Football

Following and advancing the ball with kicks, running with it passing to other teammates, trying to forward it to the opponent’s end of the field, shooting in between the goal posts and scoring a point, this is football.

Golf

Some people are just born with a natural ability to be good golfers. This is not a tough game physically but an easy, which needs concentration and interesting one only.

Handball

Handball is a fast-flowing tough physically involving game. The aim is to be throwing the ball into the opponent’s goal as many times as possible within specific period. The players work together, passing the ball up the court in an attempt to score a goal. The sport requires strength, speed and agility and has been compared to being a cross between football and basketball, although the players are not permitted to kick the ball.

Hockey

It’s played mainly in clubs both by women and men. Many people grow up with hockey at school and it can offer a lifetime of both social and sporting opportunities for players, administrators and officials alike. The rules are very similar to those of football except that players use sticks instead of their feet to move the ball.

It is of certain types like Field hockey played on field, ice hockeyplayed on land covered with ice and under water hockey. Underwater hockey is a very fast moving game that quickly builds swimming and free diving capability.

Tennis

Tennis is a game played with a racket and a ball by two or four competitors, on a rectangular court with a net strung between the midpoints of the longer sides of the court. Tennis may be played indoors or outdoors. Originally called lawn tennis to distinguish it from the sport of court tennis, from which it was derived, the game is now commonly known as tennis.

Volleyball

Volleyball is an enjoyable activity for the beach or the park. The game is played by two team of six players, with up to six substitutes allowed in a squad. A net is fixed across the middle of a court eighteen meters long and nine meters wide. Two flexible antennae mark the extremes between which the ball must pass over the net.

All above games require a level of fitness to get success comparatively.

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