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