While taking a stroll down the street, if you happen to walk across a park or play area, you will see a number of people engaged in numerous activity. Few can be seen engaged in a cycling, a group using baseball equipment, while someone is busy giving baseball instruction to the seemingly new ones. All in all, everyone is engaged in some sort of activity. It is quite obvious that the young ones are more interested in physical activities rather than just resting on the grass or playing board games. Yet, each person likes a different sort of sports. When we think of categorizing the sports into categories, the number of classifications is unbelievable. From bat and ball, sports to motor sports, from diving sports to cue sports, from swimming to sky diving, there simply just so many.

Classifying a number of sports in definite categories is undoubtedly an arduous job. But in the ball park, we can manage to come up with few criteria that can put a sport in the nearest possible category. Using these criteria, the categories that have been formed are as follows,

• Racing Sports: In racing sports, there are several individuals competeting against each other and sometimes also in teams. The basic aim of a race is to be the fastest and first one to reach the goal. Racing sports can be subcategorized in to three kinds of sports; human powered sports such as running and swimming, Human assisted such as cycling and rowing and External powered like auto sports and boating.

• Opponent sports: These sports are typically a contest between two players where the scores bagged by the players decides the winner. These kind of sports can also be divided into three prominent groups Court sports are the sports that are played in a court such as tennis, badminton and squash. Combat sports are one on one physical encounters between the opponent for e.g. Karate and boxing. And the Team sports are those which teams play against other teams example football and cricket. It is possible that a game belonging to court sports is also a team sport.

• Achievement sports: Achievement sports can be called as the sports in which the players show off their abilities. The further classifications can help you comprehend it more clearly. There are three kinds of achievement sports; Target sports are the sports in which the aim is to acieve or hit a target such as shooting and archery. Display sports are the sports in which the participants exhibit certain ability or moves like in bodybuilding, gymnastics and diving. In strength sports, the participants display their strength as in weight lifting and triple jump.

• Athletics: Finally, there are athletics in which the participants have to show their abilities in a combination of different sports from above mentioned classes. We can roughly divide these into running, jumping and throwing. The players have to take part in in a series of different games and the participants with highest overall points is the winner.

This was just a simple classification of sports, if you go into further details of all these categories. Although, if you learn about each classes individually, you will see that they can still be sub categorized into many other classes as well.