Sports are divided into the main groups. First place by amount of disciplines is won by game competitions. Classics - easy and weightlifting, single combats, artistic and rhythmic gymnastics ranks second. On the third place, is more increasing the gathering popularity, extreme sports. Besides there are specialized sports competitions: car and motorcycle races, cycling, shooting, skis, swimming, etc.
Game sports.
Game sports are most popular. Their audience and the number of fans hasn't equal. Isn't present in the world of the person who doesn't know about soccer, hockey, basketball. Opening of the world championships and final games watch billions of spectators. American football, rugby, baseball, volleyball, ball hockey aren't less known. The main distinctive feature of team sports is the staginess. The popularity and the number of the people who are engaged in them at the amateur level is explained by it. Opening of schools for children and young people, the sections, clubs giving the chance to be engaged in team game professionally.
Classical sports.
The track and field athletics on staginess is comparable with team games: run on various distances, long jumps, height, pole vaults. Throwing of apparatuses: disk, spear, hammer.
The weightlifting puts the task the record raising of weight in the press, breakthrough and the push of the post standing. Here it is possible to carry kettlebell sport, bodybuilding. All types of fight belong to single combats: classical, sambo, judo. Amateur and prize-fighting. National martial arts: karate, taekwondo, ju-jitsu, hand-to-hand fighting. Fencing on epees, foils, sabers. The artistic gymnastics is the performance of the difficult acrobatic program. Performances on classical apparatuses: game, horizontal bar, bars, rings. Jumps through the apparatus from running start, with performance of acrobatic exercises in air. The rhythmic gymnastics is presented among women. This performance of the gymnastic exercises in music showing flexibility and grace of the body.
Extreme sports.
It is sport with risk for life. It is dangerous and unpredictable. Treat extreme types: mountain climbing, rock-climbing, acrobatic freestyle, giant slalom, motor-acrobatics, mountainboard, diving, flyboard. Surfing - especially high-growth and popular sport at youth. The new directions and currents in the section of the extreme appear daily.
Specialized sports.
- Swimming on long and sprint distances the breast stroke, the crawl mixed by style. Synchronized swimming: single, pair, team. The diving from 3, 5, 10 m of the tower.
- Cross-country skiing on different distances, ski jumping. Biathlon. Snowboard.
- Speed skating. Short track. Figure skating. Curling.
- Conducted tours with stages to 250 km and team pursuits.
- Car and motorcycle races: highway and ring, rally, cross-country. World famous races are> and the rally>.
- Luge: bobsled, skeleton.
- Big tennis, ping pong.
In total there are about 200 types. And every day they become more and more.