Vocabulary - Sports and Equipment

Vocabulary

Sports and Equipment

Tennis:

a sport in which two or four people hit a small ball to each other over a net.

Tennis racket:

a piece of equipment that you use to hit a ball in sports such as tennis.

Tennis ball:

a ball used in tennis that is made of rubber covered with felt and weighs about two ounces.

Soccer:

(in the Us) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal.

Foot-ball:

a ball used in football, either round (as in soccer) or oval (as in rugby and American football) and typically made of leather or plastic and filled with compressed air.

Goal:

1. is a frame at either end of the soccer field consisting of 2 vertical goalposts and 1 horizontal crossbar on top of and connecting the 2 goalposts.

2. A score in soccer.

Baseball:

a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players.

Bat:

an implement used in baseball by the batter.

Baseball glove:

gloves worn by fielders in baseball.

Bowling:

a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over.

Bowling lane:

an alley down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins.