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Kabaddi is a traditional team pursuit game played in India and requiring players to run and hold their breath for a long time. It is played on a rectangular field 13 meters by 10 meters which is divided into two halves by a line drawn across the middle. Each half, called the court, has a line parallel to the centre line at a distance of 3 meters known as a baulk line. Two teams of 12, with 7 players on the pitch take it in turns to send one player to raid the opposition which he does while holding his breath and chanting Kabaddi while trying to touch one of the opposition and then return to his own side of the baulk line, the touched opposition players must then leave the pitch.
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Kaiser is a Canadian trick-taking card game.
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Kaiserspiel is a card game and direct descendant of Karnoffel, one of the oldest card games known. Karnoffel was referred to as early as 1426 and was the subject of a many sermons and satirical writings in the following centuries. It may appear that most of its dreadfulness lies in the level of anarchy of the play - you can play any card you like to each trick, and can talk as much as you like about what cards you have and what you want your partner to do. In the 15th century what was apparently more shocking was the anarchic card order, taken as symbolising a disruption of the status quo, with the king being beaten by low cards, the Pope (6) beaten by the Under-knave, and special privileges given to the Devil (7).
The modern game of Kaiserspiel (often known as Kaiserjass, though it is not really has nothing to do with Jass games) is played in a small area around Stans and in the Engelberg valley, in Canton Nidwalden, south of Luzern in Switzerland. Of the surviving members of the Karnoffel family, this is the closest to the original game. The cards used are similar to the standard Swiss Jass pack, but the suits contain 3, 4, and 5 and not 8 or 9 (all the 8's and 9's should be removed from the pack before playing).
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The Kansas City Athletics are an American professional baseball team.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are an American professional football team. They joined the AFL in 1960 as the Dallas Texans and switched to Kansas City to become the Kansas City Chiefs in 1963.
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The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team. They entered the American League in 1969 when it expanded to twelve teams.
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Kap Tai Shap ('Collecting Tens') is a Rummy-like game played with a number of sets of 32 Chinese dominoes.
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Karnoffel is one of the earliest European card games whose rules can be reconstructed with some confidence. It dates from the early 15th century and is one of the first trick-taking card games in which there is a 'chosen' suit some of whose cards have the power to beat cards of other suits (trumps) .
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Karting is a form of motor racing. The kart is a tiny wheeled vehicle with a wheelbase between 40 and 50 inches and a maximum length of 72 inches, usually powered by a small two-stroke engine.
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KB Copenhagen are an Association Football club. They were founded in 1876 as a rounders club and known as Kjobenhavns Boldklub. The club was among those that helped to form the Danish Boldspil Union in 1889.
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A keikogi is a Japanese jacket worn for kendo.
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Kendo is the Japanese art of sword fighting. The participants are known as
kendoka.
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Keno is a game of chance, played with numbered cards and counters by any number of people. Keno is a variant of bingo, which it closely resembles. In both games the players are issued cards divided into rows of numbered squares, no two cards having exactly the same numbers. In keno the possible numbers in each of twenty-five squares range from 1 to 90; in bingo the possible numbers extend from 1 to 75. Unlike the bingo card, the keno card has no free number in the centre square. When keno is played, the operator of the game draws or releases numbered balls, one at a time, from a container known as the 'keno goose' which contains no duplicate numbers. Each number is marked off by the operator on a large board. Winners are those who first cover on their cards all five numbers in a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row.
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The Kentucky Derby is an American horse race for three-year-olds comprising the first leg of the American triple crown. It was founded in 1875 and is run over 2000 meters at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky in early May.
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The Kentucky Oaks is the American fillies' classic horse race run over 1700 meters at Churchill Downs on the same day as the Kentucky Derby.
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A kiai is a shout in kendo which must accompany a blow for a point to be scored. It has three purposes; it emphasises the point to be attacked, helps with the co-ordination and unnerves the opponent.
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King is a card game, relative of Barbu, played in various parts of continental Europe. It is known in France and Belgium and is particularly popular in Portugal and Russia. In all these places it is known by the English name King as well as by a variety of local names. This leads people to believe that the game comes from England, but in fact King seems to be completely unknown in the British Isles.
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Kingston bridge is a playing card bent so that when the deck is cut, it is cut at the bent card.
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Kiwis is the nickname of the New Zealand Army Rugby Union team.
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Knock-Out Whist (also known as Trumps) is a simple trick-taking game, suitable for children. Any number from two to seven may play. A session consists of seven hands, of diminishing size.
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Knur and Spell is an ancient bat and ball game played in the north of England, and especially Yorkshire. It is similar to golf, in that the player tries to hit a round ball (the knur) as far as possible with the bat or stick in an agreed number of attempts.
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Konigsrufen is a fast and friendly card game for four or five players, which can be a lot of fun even when played quite badly. It is one of the most popular games in eastern Austria where there is a lot of variation in the rules.
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Korfball is a type of handball of Dutch origin, usually played out of doors between teams of mixed sexes. The pitch is a rectangle 90 meters by 40 meters, level and of short grass divided into three areas by white tape across the width. Goals, formed of baskets fixed at the top of posts, are mounted one at each end. The ball is about 70 cm in circumference.
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A kote is a heavily padded gauntlet worn during kendo to protect the hand and forearm.
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Kriegspiel (war gaming) was invented by a Prussian officer in 1824. The game was originally played on a large scale map which showed the main features of the land. Forces were represented by scale blocks, differing sizes for battalions, batteries and squadrons etc. Modern day war gaming takes many forms using models of various scales and maps or models of the area.
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Kung Fu is a form of Chinese unarmed combat.
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Kuningaspallo (kingball) is a Finnish team bat-and-ball game akin to lomgball which was played throughout Finland until the end of the nineteenth century.
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Kyu is a pupil rank in judo, as distinct from Dan which is a degree rank.
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