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=Introduction= In elizabethan time many different genders played different sports and there are three main sections for Sports and Games -Gender: Male Sports, Female Sports and Both Gender Sports/ Games.

=Male Sports=

**Team Sports**

 * Tema Sports is the sports that are played by team and one of team sports in elizabethan was football. Football was a team sport that many men played in common at Elizabethan time. Football was different from soccer and American Football because firstly, the name, "football" was received, because all the players went on foot. There were few rules but because there were few rules, it was violent and there were high potential that the players might get injured. [|(source)]Threre were other team sports beside football and that is hunt and hurling. firstly, there were two types of hunt and one of them was 'At force hunt'. 'At force' hunt was for young, active men that form a team and hunt the animal such as wild boar using dogs to catch them. Most of the hunting was not a competition but it was a sport that was played by team.[|(source)] Secondly many men also loved to play hurling and there were two types of hurling: hurling that involves running to the goal with box ball and this was dangerous as football and similar to modern rugby. Another type of hurling is similar to hockey but the only difference between modern hockey and hurling was that players who are playing hurling in Elizabethan time, have to learn riding horse. There were many tournaments in Elizabethan time and many men were involved in the tournament. In the tournaments many men called as knights.[|(source)]

**[[image:http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/images/Hawking.GIF width="181" height="227" align="left" caption="a man is training a bird "]]Blood Sports (Animal Sports)**
Blood sports are named because there were lots of killing and because it is bloody and some elizabethan time also called blood sports as animal sports because most of blood sports were involved animals. For example there was hawking and to play this sport they need to train the bird to hunt other wild bird. Many gentlemen sealed the bird's eye with needle and many gentlemen did this so that they can open and close the bird's eye and many gentlemen said that by doing this thing, it is easy to train. Many gentlemen include King played this sports but most of the King used eager than normal birds to show that he is more powerful. **source for male blood sports:**[|(source)]

=Female Sports=

**Team sports**
ladies did not play many sports but there was one spicfic sport that women also liked to play and the sport was 'Bow and Stable' hunt, a type of hunt, was for young woman or less active men and this type of hunt was for the women because it does not require that much power. In this type of hunt, many women used bow to catch the prey and women used bow because they do not have to use that much power. In this type of hunt, the main prey for women was docile deer. **source for Female team sports:**[|(source)]

Hobby for Ladies
Since many women did not play sports because of its violence so most of women enjoyed attending tournaments and banquet. Many women usually attned at tournaments on morning and afternoon and many women attended banquet on evening. Queen Elizabethan also loved to attending these sports. **source for spending time for ladies:**[|(source)]

=Both Gender Sports/Games=

[[image:506698_f260.jpg width="182" height="198" align="left" caption="Dogs are attacking the bear and there are both genders in audience seat (make it smaller)"]]Blood sports
In blood sports, there were popular sports. For example, bear and bull baiting. Many people played bear baiting by tying the Bear on tree and then the people let dogs to fight with the bear. If dog kills bear then the dog wins and bull baiting was another popular blood sports that both men and women love to watch but the only difference between bear and bull baiting is that bull baiting involves bull instead of bear. **source for Both Gender sports:**[|(source)]

Both Gender Games
There were different categories in games: board games, dice games, card games, sporting games and children's game and these were played by both gender because mainly it does not require any physical strength and most of them were not violence. There were some games that is same as modern game but there were also games that were played in ancient time. Chess was one of the board game and this was same as modern chess game. Hazard was one of dice game and now in modren time, many people do not play hazard. In additional, hazard was ancestor of craps.
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