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Sport

Common sports

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hang-gliding windsurfing bowls darts
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riding snooker/pool/billiards motor-racing

Equipment - what you hold in your hand

golf - club squash/tennis/badminton - racket darts - dart archery - bow
Erickedtable-tennkbaseball - bat hockey - stick snooker/poo~billiards - cue
canoeing - paddle rowing - oar fishing - rodlline

Athletics - some field events

d' ~scus javelin high-jump long-jump pole-vault
She's a good sprinter. [fast over short distances]
He's a great long-distance runner. [eg 5000 metres, marathon]
Jogging round the park every Saturday's enough for me.
Verbs and their collocations in the context of sport

Our team wonllost three goalslpoints.
She broke the Olympic record last year.
He holds the record for the 100 metres breast-stroke.
Liverpool beat Hamburg 4-2 yesterday.
The team have never been defeated. [more formal than beat]
How many goalslpoints have you scored this season?
I think I'll take up bowls next spring and give up golf.

People who do particular sports
-er can be used for many sports, e.g. footballer, swimmer, windsurfer, high-jumper,
cricketer, golfer, etc. Player is often necessary, e.g. tennis-player, snooker-player, darts-
player; we can also say football-player, cricket-player. Some names must be learnt separately,
e.g. canoeist, cyclist, mountaineer, jockey, archer (not archerer), gymnast.

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