Throwing sports
Throwing sports, or throwing games, are physical, human competitions where the outcome is measured by a player's ability to throw an object.
The two primary forms are throwing for distance and throwing at a given target or range. The four most prominent throwing for distance sports are in
, each of which have a great number of variations.History
Throwing sports have a long history. Modern track and field comes from a lineage of activities that dates to the Ancient Olympic Games. Artwork from Ancient Greece, in the form of friezes, pottery and statues, attests to the prominence of such sports in the society's physical culture.[1]
Bowling games have similarly ancient roots. Games based on throwing stone balls in Ancient Egypt date to 5000 BCE, and a form of bocce is documented in Ancient Rome.[2] The game of catch (throwing and catching an object between players) is among the most basic of all games and is a key component of many modern, complex sports and games. Its dodgeball variant is a basic throwing game where the opponent is the target.[3]
Most throwing sports use a defined
Standardised throwing sports typically have high-level competitions across regions and a
The act of throwing is an element of many sports, particularly
List of throwing sports
Throwing for distance
- Track and field
- Discus throw (Olympic sport)
- Hammer throw (Olympic sport)
- Javelin throw (Olympic sport)
- Shot put (Olympic sport)
- Weight throw (former Olympic sport)
- combined track and field eventcomprising the above five events
- Club throw (Paralympics)
- Frisbee
- Boomerang
- Dwarf-tossing
- Keg-tossing
- Mobile phone throwing
- Sheaf toss
- Softball throw
- Stone put
- Steinstossen
- Golf Long drive competitions
Two-handed throwing
In events where one hand is used to throw the object, a "two-handed" contest may be staged wherein each competitor's score is the sum of the distance thrown with left and right hand. Such contests were staged at the
Target sports
- Board targets
- Bowling
- Alley bowling
- Boules
- Basque bowls
- Bocce
- Bocce volo
- Boccia
- Bolas criollas
- Bolo palma
- Jeu provençal a.k.a. boule lyonnaise
- Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
- Pétanque
- Taistelupetankki
- Aunt Sally
- Bean bag throwing
- Cherokee marbles
- Chunkey
- Coconut shy
- Cornhole
- Horseshoes
- Irish road bowling
- Ladder toss
- Lawn darts
- Milk bottle pyramid
- Pitching pennies
- Ring toss
- Quoits
- Svaika
- Tin can alley
- Washer pitching
Other varieties
- Caber toss – a competitor throws a large pole (the caber), which must fall pointing away from the thrower[16]
- Catch – a basic throwing game, where players throw and catch an object between one another
- Dodgeball – players try to strike opponents with a ball to eliminate them
- Keep away – catch game where players must keep the object away from another player
- flying discs, and containing a large number of games and rule-sets
- Stone skipping – competitors skip stones on water for both distance and number of skips
See also
References
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- ^ Weight throw. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved on 2015-03-16.
- ^ Javelin. Brian Mac Sports Coach. Retrieved on 2015-03-16.
- ^ Delivering the Ball (the Run-Up). Capital District Tenpin Bowling Association. Retrieved on 2015-03-16.
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