Unit 1: Athletics I

Summary

• Athletics: the sport that includes running, jumping, and throwing, in USA they call it track and field.

• Track: a path, often circular, used for races

• Field: an area of grass where you can play a sport, in athletics, where we jump and throw.

• starting blocks: are a device used in the sport of track and field by sprint athletes to brace their feet against at the start of a race so they do not slip as they stride forwards at the sound of the starter's pistol.

• Button: piece of tube runners uses in a relay race. Each runner must give it to the next teammate.

• Hurdles: a frame to be jumped in a race.

• Shot put: a sports competition in which a heavy metal ball is thrown from the shoulder as far as possible

• Discus: a heavy plate-shaped object that is thrown as part of a sports event

• Javelin: a long, pointed stick that you throw as a sport

• Hammer: in sport, a metal ball on a long steel handle for throwing.

• Long jump: a sports contest in which people jump as far as possible

• Triple jump: an athletic event in which competitors attempt to jump as far as possible by performing a hop, a step, and a jump from a running start.

• High jump: a sports contest in which people jump over a bar which is raised until no-one can jump over it

• Pole vault: a sport in which you use a very long stick to jump over a high bar