Curling

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to... Wikipedia

• Highest governing body:  World Curling Federation
• Nicknames:  Chess On Ice, The Roaring Game
• First played:  Approximately late medieval Scotland
• Registered players:  est. 1.5 million
• Contact:  No
• Team members:  4 per team (2 in doubles)
• Mixed gender:  Yes, see mixed curling
• Type:  Precision and accuracy
• Equipment:  Curling brooms, stones (rocks), curling shoes
• Venue:  Curling sheet
• Olympic:  First event in 1924 (retroactively made official in 2006), Demonstration sport in 1932, 1988 and 1992, Officially added in 1998
• Paralympic:  Wheelchair curling officially added in 2006
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo