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DK Arts & Entertainment: Games

HOW OLD IS CHESS? WHO INVENTS GAMES? FIND OUT MOREA game is a competition between two or more people who play to a set of rules. A player may need skill, as with chess, or rely on the luck of the…

Summer Games: Gold Medals

Track and Field–MenTrack and Field–WomenSwimming–MenSwimming–WomenBasketball–MenBasketball–WomenBoxingOther 2004 Summer Olympic Games ChampionsDistribution of Medals—2004 Summer Games

Winter Games: Gold Medals

Figure Skating–MenFigure Skating–WomenSpeed Skating–MenSpeed Skating–WomenSkiing, Alpine–MenSkiing, Alpine–WomenIce HockeyFreestyle Skiing—MenFreestyle Skiing—Women2006 United States…

games, children's

(Encyclopedia) games, children's, amusements or pastimes involving more than one child and in which there is some sort of formalized dramatic element, contest, or plot. Games are a cultural universal…

Olympic games

(Encyclopedia) CE6 Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The modern revival of the Olympic games is due in a…

Pythian games

(Encyclopedia) Pythian gamesPythian gamespĭthˈēən [key], in ancient Greece, games held at Delphi every four years (the third of each Olympiad). They included musical, literary, and athletic contests…

Commonwealth games

(Encyclopedia) Commonwealth games, series of amateur athletic meets held among citizens of countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. Originated (1930) as the British Empire games, the series is held…

Isthmian games

(Encyclopedia) Isthmian gamesIsthmian gamesĭsˈmēən [key], athletic events organized c.581 b.c. They were held at Corinth in the spring of the first and third years of the Olympiad, and they honored…

Paralympic games

(Encyclopedia) Paralympic games, series of international sports contests for athletes with physical, visual, and intellectual impairments. The games grew out of a gathering of British World War II…