Hi, everyone. Today I wanted to talk about words that you need in order to talk about sports.
It would be too complicated to talk about every sport.
Therefore I have chosen a few words that you can use with many different types of sports.
First, as you have already heard, the German word "Sport" is also "sport" in English.
but if you are talking about a particular "Sportart" or multiple "Sportarten" you say "type of sport" in English.
Types of sports include: running sport, strength sport, air sport, and professional sport
We are starting today with running sport. There are three categories of that:
short distance, (up to 400 meters), middle distance (between 800 and 1600 meters), and long distance (over 1600 meters).
In English we call this "track and field", but in German we say "Leichtathletik".
What we call "field" in English, in German it includes:
shot put, discus, javelin, hammer throw,
high jump, pole vault, long jump, and tripple jump.
"Kraftsport" is also called "weightlifting" or "bodybuilding".
Actually, it is pretty much anything that has to do with strength training.
Weightlifting is when one lifts heavy things,
while bodybuilding does the same, but the goal is to have large, beautiful muscles.
Like mine. (kiss sound)
Air sports are the types of sports that you play in the air.
That includes: ballooning, gliding, hang-gliding, and parachuting.
Of course, professional sports are the ones that are played by professionals.
Nowadays that is pretty much every type of sport.
Did you know that "racewalking" is an Olympic game?
And I thought that curling was the dumbest game of the Olympic Games.
First first we have to name the most important types of sports.
Obviously, there are a lot of games that include the word "ball".
These are all masculine nouns, but you rarely use an article in front of these types of sports.
Here are a few examples: soccer, football, basketball, baseball, dodgeball, handball, and kickball.
There are also ball games that don't include the word "ball".
Luckily, they are mostly the same word or very similar to the English.
There is bowling, skittles (9 pins instead of 10), tennis, table tennis, rugby, golf, and hockey.
I know that you don't use a ball in Hockey, but in street hockey there is a ball.
If you use a ball in a game, you can often use a "club".
They almost all have the word "Schläger" in it.
baseball bat, golf club, tennis racket, hockey stick, football bat...
Ok. The last one isn't real. That is a joke word. In English we say
"You are as dumb as a football bat." or in German "Du bist so dumm wie ein Fußballschläger."
Obviously, there are rules for every game.
For every game, they are different. Perhaps it is enough to say
that they are called "Regeln" and if you don't abide by the rules, there is a foul,
but the Germans usually just say "Foul".
There are certain people, who enforce the rules. They are either called "Schiedsrichter" or "Ringrichter".
Although the rules for every sport are different than they are for other games,
there are a few verbs that we can use with many different types of sports.
For example: "rennen" and "laufen" are both "to run" in English,
but I believe that more people say "laufen" instead of "rennen".
The verb "schlagen" is "to hit" in English and can be used with almost every type of sport that uses a ball.
There is also the verb "werfen". That is "to throw" in English.
You can use the verb "fangen" to say that you have the ball that was thrown by someone else in your hand.
We have already learned many words about sports,
but you should write a comment below, what kind of sport you want to see in another video.
Should I talk about soccer? Should I talk about baseball?
What do you want to learn? Write me in the comments.
That is all for today. Thanks for watching. Until next time. Bye.