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Sports and Games - G

These are all sports and games beginning with the letter G.

Gaelic Football

Gaelic Football is played between two teams of fifteen players (plus three substitutes), and is a mixture of soccer and rugby. The goals have the uprights, cross-bar, and net, exactly as in soccer, but also have the uprights extended above the cross-bar, as in rugby. If the ball goes under the cross-bar it is a goal, and if it goes over it is a point, a goal equalling three points. The ball is round, and it may be kicked, fisted or caught, but not thrown forward, nor carried. Play usually consists of two halves lasting thirty minutes each.

Gliding

Gliders are airplanes without engines. Before a glider can glide it needs to get from the ground into the air. There are various methods of doing this. The glider can be towed into the air by an airplane, by the winch on the back of a vehicle or by a rubber bungey rope (the rope is stretched like a rubber band). When the glider is in the air the pilot tries to find thermals (currents of warm air) which will help the glider stay in the air for longer. Gliders compete in various events - pure distance, distance to a declared goal, to a declared goal and back, height gain and absolute altitude.

Golf

The game of golf consists of using a set of clubs with which to play small white ball over a crosscountry course of eighteen holes. Each hole can be several hundred yards long, and will have its fixed starting-point (the tee) and its finish (the hole). The object is to complete the course in as few strokes as possible. The playing of each hole falls into three sections, driving, approaching, and putting. Competitions can be either match play or stroke play. In match play, the winner is the player or team that wins the most holes while in stroke play it is the player or team that takes the lowest number of strokes over the eighteen holes that wins.

Greyhound Racing

The sport of greyhound racing first became popular in the USA. The first regular greyhound racing track was opened at Emeryville, California in 1919. Racetracks are oval in shape. Races are usually conducted over distances of between 210 m (230 yds) for the sprint and 1097 m (1200 yds) for the marathon. Before the race starts the dogs are placed in traps and are released when the motorized "hare" passes the traps. The dogs chase the "hare" around the track.