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Gaelic Football is a 15-a-side variation of football somewhat like a compromise between Association Football and Rugby.
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A gaff is a ring used for cock-fighting.
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A gaffle is a metal spur fitted to a cock for fighting.
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Garmisch is a bobsleigh course at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. It was built for the 1936 winter Olympic games but opened in time to stage the world championships in 1934.
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Garryowen RFC is a rugby union football club in Doorodoyle, County Limerick founded in 1884.
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The Gezira Club is the main sporting club in Egypt and is situated close to the centre of Cairo.
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A gig is a whipping top, made in the form of a 'V'. Gigs were popular children's toys before the discovery of electricity.
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Gilera are an Italian manufacturer of racing motorbikes.
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The Gillette Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the winner of the
Gillette Cup competition in English cricket. The competition is conducted on a knock-out basis between the 17 first-class county sides and the 5 leading counties in the Minor Counties championship of the previous season. The competition was instituted in 1963 as an antidote to flagging interest in the county championship proper and was an immediate success with the public.
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Gilli Danda is an indigenous outdoor team or individual game played in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan with slight variations. Basically the game involves two sticks, one of which is propelled into the air by the other and the opposing team try to catch it.
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The Giro D'Italia (Tour of Italy) is an annual stage race for professional cyclists. It was first held in 1909 and was modelled on the Tour de France.
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The Glaciarium was the world's first mechanically-refrigerated ice skating rink. It was built in 1876 near the King's Road in London by John Gamgee.
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Gleek, also known as cleek, is a three player card game that was popular in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Gleek is played with a deck of cards without the two and threes, twelve cards being dealt to each player, eight cards being left for the stock which is offered in rotation to the players for purchase. The trumps are called Tiddly, Tumbler, Tib, Tom and Towser. A set of three cards all alike is called a gleek, and four of a kind is called a mournival.
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Gleneagles is a Scottish hotel golf course in the Grampian foothills.
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Glentoran FC is an Association Football club in Belfast formed in 1882. Their home ground is the Oval which is in the east of Belfast. A successful team, they have been Irish league Champions more than 19 times, Irish Cup Winners 16 times, and Gold Cup Winners 11 times.
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Go Fish is a card game the object of which is to collect books, which are sets of four cards of the same rank, by asking other players for cards you think they may have. Whoever collects most sets wins. The basic idea is very simple and it is often thought of as a children's game.
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In quoits and pitch-and-toss, the target mark is known as a 'gog'.
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The Golden Gloves is a famous American amateur boxing match. It was started in 1928 as an inter- cities competition between Chicago and New York, sponsored by the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Winners received a gold medal and a pair of miniature golden gloves.
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The Golden Slipper Stakes is the most valuable and important horse race for two-year-olds in Australia. It is run over six furlongs at the Rosehill track, Sydney, in March.
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Golden Ten is a card game for three to seven players, related to Hearts, played with a Rook deck of 56 cards. The cards are of four colours: red, yellow, blue and black. In each colour there are cards numbered from 14 (high) to 1 (low). The aim is to avoid winning tricks containing red cards (especially the 5 and 10), while trying to win the trick containing the yellow 10 if you can.
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Golf is an outdoor club-and-ball game in which the object of the player is to play the ball from its starting point - the tee - to the hole in as few strokes as possible.
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Gong Zhu is a Chinese version of the card game hearts, in which the queen of spades is the penalty card known as the pig.
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The Gophers is the nickname of the University of Minnesota American college football team.
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Gornik Zabrze is an Association Football club in Zabrze, Poland.
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Gorton Athletic was an English Association Football club founded in 1884. It was amalgamated with West Gorton in 1887 to form Ardwick.
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Gran Criterium is an important horse race for two-year olds in Italy. It is run in mid-October over 1500 meters at Milan and forms the second leg of the big Italian two-year old double.
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Gran Premio D'Italia is a classic horse-race for three-year olds run in early June at Milan over 2400 meters.
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The Gran Premio De Madrid is an important horse race for three-year olds and upwards run over 2500 meters on the Zarzuela course at Madrid.
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The Gran Premio Di Milano is a horse race which is the first leg of the Italian triple crown of weight-for-age events.
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Gran Premio Nacional is a horse race in the Argentine Derby run over 2500 meters on the Palermo trace at Buenos Aires in October.
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Grand Criterium is an important horse race for two-year olds held in France. It is run over 1600 meters at Longchamp in October forming the third leg of the French triple crown for two-year olds.
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The Grand National Steeplechase is the most famous horse race in the world for jumpers. It was first run in England in 1839 and is now a handicap for horses, geldings and mares, six years old and upwards who have fulfilled certain qualifications in their previous appearances on the race-course. It is run near the end of March at Aintree near Liverpool over a course of 4 miles 856 yards with thirty jumps.
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The Grand National Archery Society is the governing body for archery in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1861 with the sole object of organising the Grand National Archery Meetings which began in 1844.
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The Grand Prix de Paris is a horse race founded in 1863 and is the French classic for three-year olds. It is run over 3100 meters in late June at Longchamp.
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The Green Bay Packers are an American professional football team based in Wisconsin. They joined the NFL in 1922 and won the first two Super Bowl competitions.
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Greyhound Racing is a sport in which greyhounds compete in pursuit of a mechanical imitation of a hare. The racing takes place on an elliptical or oval shaped track with a circumference of about 400 to 550 yards.
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The Grosser Preis Von Baden is an important international weight-for-age horse race held at the Iffezheim course at Baden-Baden, Germany in early September over 2400 meters.
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The Grosser Preis Von Nordrhein-westfalen is a horse race run at Dusseldorf, Germany in July over 2400 meters and comprises the first leg of the German triple crown for older weight-for-age horses.
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GS Varnamo is a Swedish walking club located midway between Goteborg and Stockholm. The club dominated Swedish Race Walking from 1948 to 1960.
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Gurning is the ancient British pastime of pulling grotesque faces. Once the pastime was popular at British fairs, but now seems only really to survive at the Egremont crab-apple fair, which holds the British national championships each year. Competitors put their head through a horse's collar and pull a grotesque face. The winner is the competitor who receives the greatest audience applause.
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Guy's Hospital RFC is the oldest Rugby Union football club in existence, founded in 1843 and a founder member of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. It was the first club to win the Hospital's Cup which was introduced in 1875.
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Gymnastics is a sport competed by men and women on various apparatus which test grace, strength and dexterity.
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