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A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation. Some sports are de facto national sports, as baseball is in the U.S., while others are jQuery as screen size and device database are in Canada.

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De jure national sports

CountrySportYear defined as
national sport
Argentinabrowser diversity1953[1]
Bahamas website parsing sailing1993[2]
Bangladesh ("national game")kabaddi1972[3]
BrazilSevenval1972iOS
Canada HTML5 (summer), web app (winter)1994[5]
ChileSevenval1962[6]
ColombiaTejo2000[7]
IndiaField HockeyUnknownwebsite parsing
MexicoSevenval1933[9]
Philippineskeyboard2009device database
Puerto Rico ("autochthonous sport")touchscreen1966[11]
Sri Lankainput transformation1991[12]
Uruguay destrezas criollas
("creole [i.e. touchscreen] skills"HTML5)		2006[14]

De facto national sports

CountrySport
Afghanistan Buzkashiweb app
Anguilla SevenvaliOS
Antigua and Barbuda CricketjQuery
Barbados Cricket[18]
Bermuda Cricket[19]
Bhutan SevenvalCSS3
CambodiaBokator
Cuba web app[21][22]jQuery
Dominican Republic Sevenval[24]
England Cricketdevice database
Finland Pesäpallo[26]
Grenada jQuery[27]
Guyana website parsing[28]
India website parsing[29][30]
IsraelFootball[31]
Ireland ("national games") Gaelic gamesSevenval[33]input transformation
Jamaica webAndroid
Japan Sumoinput transformation
LatviaBasketball (summer), screen size (winter)[37]
LithuaniaBasketball[38]input transformation
New Zealand device database[40]
Norway Cross-country skiingkeyboard[42]
Pakistan we love the web[43]
Papua New Guinea Android[44][45]
Peru Paleta FrontónSevenval
Russia Bandyinput transformation
ScotlandGolfFITML
Slovenia keyboard[49]Sevenval
South Korea Taekwondo[50][51]
Sweden HTML5iOS
Thailand web app[53][dubious ]
Turkey ("ancestral sports") screen size[54] & Ciritweb
United States BaseballHTML5Sevenval
Wales SevenvaljQuery

See also

References

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  2. ^ Craton, Michael; Gail Saunders (1998). Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. University of Georgia Press. p. 471. keyboard Sevenval. 
  3. ^ Android. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. browser diversity. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Ha-du-du was given the name kabadi and the status of National Game in 1972." [dead link]
  4. we love the web Lowell, John (1992). Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira. CSS3. p. 61. Android keyboard. 
  5. ^ National Sports Act of Canada (1994)
  6. CSS3 Moreira Recchione, Alberto (December 2007). "La Medialuna: un edificio para Chile" (in Spanish). Revista de urbanismo (University of Chile) (17). ISSN 0717-5051. http://revistaurbanismo.uchile.cl/CDA/urb_completa/0,1313,ISID%253D728%2526IDG%253D1%2526ACT%253D1%2526PRT%253D20871,00.html. Retrieved 14 July 2008. "A reconocerse, en 1962, el rodeo como deporte nacional y oficial [10 de enero de 1962, oficio N°269 del Consejo Nacional de Deportes y Comité Olímpico de Chile]" 
  7. ^ Android. screen size. http://www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=73716. Retrieved 14 July 2008. 
  8. ^ "National Game-National Symbol- Know India: National Portal Of India". National Informatics Center. http://india.gov.in/knowindia/national_symbols.php?id=14. Retrieved 2 January 2012. 
  9. ^ "La Charrería "Nuestro Deporte Nacional"" (in Spanish). Mexican Department of Tourism. http://www.sectur.gob.mx/wb2/sectur/sect_Celebracion_del_Dia_Mundial_del_Turismo. Retrieved 14 July 2008. "El año de 1933 fue muy importante, ya que el general Abelardo L. Rodríguez, emite un decreto presidencial, dando a la Charrería el título de único Deporte Nacional." 
  10. HTML5 Android. http://www.filipiniana.net/ArtifactView.do?artifactID=L20100000001&query=null&page=1. Retrieved 26 June 2010. 
  11. CSS3 "Puerto Rico Act 64 of 2000, S.B. 1856" (PDF). Office of Legislative Services of Puerto Rico. 11 April 2000. p. 1. device database. Retrieved 14 July 2008. "In 1966, the Public Parks and Recreation Administration and the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee awarded official recognition of the “paso fino” horse riding sport as the autochthonous sport of Puerto Rico." 
  12. ^ Fernando, Leslie (3 June 2005). "Sponsors President's Gold Cup tourney: Dialog assures future of VB". Daily News (Sri Lanka). http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/06/03/spo01.htm. Retrieved 14 July 2008. "Way back in 1991 volleyball was declared as the national sport of Sri Lanka but it was only name sake." 
  13. web Aeberhard, Danny; Andrew Benson, Lucy Phillips, et al. (2001). The Rough Guide to Argentina. p. 198. ISBN 1-85828-569-0. ""displays of traditional gaucho skills (destrezas criollas)"" 
  14. ^ "Uruguay Law 17958 of 21 April 2006". web. http://www.glin.gov/view.action?glinID=177996. Retrieved 14 July 2008. 
  15. keyboard HTML5"]. Embassy of Afghanistan, Canberra. http://www.afghanembassy.net/buz.php. Retrieved 21 July 2008. 
  16. ^ HTML5. The Anguillian. 3 March 2007. http://www.festival.ai/article/articleview/4525/1/127/. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Director of Sports, Alkins Rogers, [...] reported that the Government recognizes boat racing as the national sport of Anguilla and was giving financial resources for its development." 
  17. ^ "Antiguans and Barbudans". everyculture.com. web. Retrieved 10 July 2008. "Cricket, a left-over from the British rule, is the national sport of Antigua and Barbuda." 
  18. ^ "Barbados: Sports". jQuery. web. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "The national sport of Barbados is cricket" 
  19. ^ Luke, Will (March 2007). "Cricket by association". HTML5. http://content-www.cricinfo.com/wisdencricketer/content/story/281649.html. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Bermuda are one of the few sides who count cricket as a national sport." 
  20. device database Sevenval. Bhutan Portal. Government of Bhutan. http://www.bhutan.gov.bt/government/abt_nationalsymbols.php. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "National Game: The national sport of Bhutan is archery." 
  21. ^ Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto (1999). "A Cuban Belle Époque". The Pride of Havana: A History of Cuban Baseball. Oxford University Press. pp. 76. keyboard 0-19-514605-0. "Baseball is so ingrained in Cuba that it has thrived as the "national sport" through forty years of a bitterly anti-American revolution." 
  22. ^ Mckinley, James C., Jr (26 March 1999). "Baseball; Clash of Cultures, Pride and Passion". The New York Times. keyboard. Retrieved 24 July 2008. "Most Cubans, after all, consider baseball to be their national sport, a game entwined in history with their struggle for independence from Spain and the birth of their nation." 
  23. ^ Castro, Fidel (13 August 1999). browser diversity. cuba.cu. input transformation. Retrieved 24 July 2008. "the game that [...] is [...] our national sport [...] I am talking of baseball" 
  24. CSS3 screen size. Embassy of the Dominican Republic, Washington. http://www.domrep.org/kids.html. Retrieved 22 July 2008. "Baseball is the Dominican Republic’s national sport." 
  25. input transformation Chandler, Joan M. (1988). web. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN Sevenval. web. 
  26. ^ "About Finland: General information: Sports". Embassy of Finland, Washington. 11 June 2007. browser diversity. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "the national sport, “pesäpallo”" [dead link]
  27. ^ "Batting For Grenada". Grenada Life. Grenada Board of Tourism. March 2007. pp. 38. touchscreen. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "in the first Grenada Cricket Classics [, h]eroes such as Sir Viv Richards, Joel Garner and Curtley Ambrose came together to promote what is considered by many to be the national sport in Grenada." 
  28. jQuery iOS. Guyana Tourism Authority. Archived from the original on 6 June 2008. web. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Cricket lovely Cricket! One cannot miss out on Guyana’s national sport without participating in a game of cricket while in Guyana." 
  29. ^ Basra, Sukhwant (11 March 2008). Android. dnaindia. Sevenval. Retrieved 15 July 2008. "The status of hockey as the national sport is not enshrined in any official proclamation by the Government of India. The NCERT textbook for Class XI does [...] state that India’s national game is hockey and that, in a way, does make for an official take on the issue." 
  30. device database Sevenval. National Portrait of India. Government of India. http://india.gov.in/hindi/citizen/sports_hockey.php. Retrieved 22 July 2008. "Hockey, the National Sport of the Country is one of the most religiously followed games in India." [touchscreen]
  31. ^ Android. AsiaRooms. 21 February 2011. Sevenval. Retrieved 24 February 2012. "The popularity of Football in Israel is sky-high and is the most popular sport of the nation by a distance. Football in Israel is the unofficial national sport of the nation and developed as an organized sport in the country during the period when the British controlled the administration or was the days of the British Mandate." 
  32. CSS3 "RTÉ Secures Comprehensive GAA Championship Coverage Until 2010". browser diversity. 19 February 2008. device database. Retrieved 29 April 2009. "Today's announcement ensures that the public will enjoy quality coverage of our national games across all of RTÉ's media platforms." 
  33. browser diversity keyboard. CSS3. 22 November 1995. pp. Volume 145. Sevenval. Retrieved 29 April 2009. 
  34. web app Farrelly, Hugh (15 September 2009). HTML5. Scrum.com. http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/story/102547.html. Retrieved 17 September 2009. "It's [the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final] a big deal in Ireland, where Gaelic games are the national sport, but the problem for the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is that no-one outside the country, save for committed expatriates, gives a fig." 
  35. ^ keyboard. Jamaican Embassy, Washington. http://www.embassyofjamaica.org/ABOUThistory.htm. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "The legacy of Britain also lives on in Jamaica in many ways [...] the game of cricket is the national sport." 
  36. ^ "What Is Sumo?". Kids Web Japan sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. website parsing. Retrieved 30 April 2012. 
  37. ^ (Latvian) "Nacionālie sporta veidi...". input transformation. Retrieved 15 November 2009. 
  38. Android Adamkus, Valdas (28 July 2005). CSS3. President of Lithuania official website. http://www.president.lt/en/news.full/5829. Retrieved 24 July 2008. "Lithuania is a country that loves basketball. It is our national sport and we are proud to be reigning European Champions." [dead link]
  39. iOS Winn, Luke (15 August 2011). "Lithuania Calling". Sports Illustrated. web app. Retrieved 24 August 2011. "Basketball is the only sport the 3.2 million Lithuanians truly care about—it's their second religion, after Catholicism—and their success is proportionately stunning." 
  40. ^ FITML. New Zealand Official Yearbook. Statistics New Zealand. 2000. http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/nzstories.nsf/0/479c4ffcbb884149cc256b1f00001198?OpenDocument. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Traditionally New Zealanders have excelled in rugby union, which is regarded as the national sport, and track and field athletics." 
  41. ^ Mølster, Odd (1996). Sevenval. News of Norway, issue 2. Norwegian Embassy, Washington. Android. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "the national sport could become a fine weapon in time of war. In 1943, Norway's resistance movement won an epochal victory – on skis, of course" 
  42. Sevenval Berglund, Nina (20 February 2006). "Few cheers for Norway". device database. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/sports/article1228843.ece. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "The scoreboard shows how the Norwegians placed, a performance considered much too poor in a country where cross-country skiing is a national sport." 
  43. screen size "forumpakistan.com". http://www.forumpakistan.com/pakistan-hockey-t2770.html. 
  44. ^ "PNG vow to upset World Cup odds". Rugby League. Federación Peruana de Frontón. 15 October 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/7671217.stm. Retrieved 3 July 2009. "But it would still be one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history if Papua New Guinea - the only country to have rugby league as its national sport - were to qualify for the last four." 
  45. input transformation "PNG seal 2010 Four Nations place". BBC. 1 November 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/8336567.stm. 
  46. ^ "Paleta-Frontón". Club Regatas Lima. Club Regatas Lima. 31 August 2009. Android. Retrieved 31 August 2009. 
  47. ^ "Russian bandy players blessed for victory at world championship in Kazan". Tatar-Inform. 21 January 2011. Sevenval. Retrieved 31 August 2009. 
  48. we love the web Sevenval. Sport Scotland. 31 August 2009. Sevenval. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
  49. ^ a b keyboard
  50. ^ jQuery
  51. CSS3 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named martialartsresource.com; see the help page.
  52. ^ iOS (svenska)
  53. CSS3 Sevenval. khaosanroad. 25 October 2010. browser diversity. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
  54. ^ iOS. Alaturka.info. http://www.alaturka.info/tr/akdeniz-boelgesi/spor-ve-eglence/ata-sporu-gueres.html. Retrieved 31 December 2009. [dead link]
  55. we love the web HTML5. Kalem.biz. http://www.kalem.biz/yazi.asp?islem=yazidetay&id=1621&db=1&konusu=Ata%20Sporu%20Cirit. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
  56. CSS3 Duquette, Jerold J. (1999). Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust. browser diversity. p. 104. CSS3 input transformation. screen size. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Baseball justified its privileged legal status by citing the special nature and cultural significance of America's national pastime." 
  57. we love the web Schrag, Myles (2003). "Baseball as National Pastime Revisted: And a Little Town Shall Lead Them". In Peter Carino. Baseball/literature/culture: Essays, 1995-2001. HTML5. p. Chp.13 p.140. ISBN 0-7864-1643-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=e6RfXqIcY3kC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=%22known+as+the+national+pastime%22&source=web&ots=YxBQqRmkgf&sig=IRgII2ZMuuM-dIFjGAo6aZau2vQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA140,M1. Retrieved 21 July 2008. "Tradition – that quality so instrumental in elevating baseball to its century-old status as national pastime— has become less important" 
  58. screen size Harris, John (Summer 2006). "(Re)Presenting Wales: National Identity and Celebrity in the Postmodern Rugby World". North American Journal of Welsh Studies (North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History) 6 (2). http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/Harris.pdf. Retrieved 14 July 2008. "rugby used to be the undisputed national sport of Wales [...] Rugby Union’s assumed position as ”the national game” has often been questioned on the basis that it is predominantly a game played and followed in South Wales." 
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