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Traditional Sports

The more traditional sports in Britain are well known through the media but also playing at school and in PE classes. These tend to be football, rugby, cricket, netball, hockey...

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Walking Sports

One of the great things about sport is that it can be played at any level, from the professionals that you see on the TV down to the teams playing...

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Inclusive and Adaptive Sports

Inclusive and Adaptive sports are designed to allow anyone, of any ability, to play. You may find these terms used in similar context, but the difference is that an adaptive...

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Information from National Governing Bodies of Sport

For information about the individual sports, you can access the websites of the recognised National Governing Bodies of Sport to find out the rules, local clubs and the national game.

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Information about how to play Rounders

Rounders

Rounders is the ultimate outdoor game that can be played by the whole family. Whether you’re in your back garden, the local park or even at the beach, Rounders provides...

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Parklands Leisure Centre

Get active and keep fit at Everyone Active’s Parklands Leisure Centre Oadby, Leicester’s premier leisure facility with gym, swim and kid-friendly facilities. The 115-station gym has all the latest cardio and resistance equipment, as well as free weights, while there’s also a 25m swimming pool that hosts all our award-winning swimming lessons, alongside other aquatic activities. Alongside these, there’s also a multi-use sports hall, as well as our Play World Soft Play and Fun Climb Centre. We also boast an innovative outdoor training area, group fitness studios that host a range of sessions, as well as a café in which you can relax.

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Huncote Leisure Centre – Everyone Active

Huncote Leisure Centre offers a multitude of different facilities to satisfy everyone’s fitness and activity needs, both indoors and outdoors. Alongside our ultra-modern gym, spacious and versatile sports hall, group fitness studio and a café, here at Huncote Leisure Centre, we also boast outdoor team sports facilities, including a full-size football pitch. So why not come on down and see what we have to offer?

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Enderby Leisure Centre – Everyone Active

You can choose between a huge variety of different activities here at Enderby. Whether you want a tough workout in the gym, a gentle game of bowls or a round of golf, then we’ve got you covered. Meanwhile, you can also enjoy our wonderful swimming pools in which we host our award-winning swimming lessons, as well as numerous other aquatic activities. Elsewhere in the centre, you can enjoy a number of activities in our sports hall, including five-a-side football and badminton, while our group fitness classes are sure to suit everyone too.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. The game...

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BMX Cycling

BMX cycling offers a wide range of challenges across the sport but, from supercross racing to freestyle tricks, the skills required are developed from a passion for cycling creativity and adrenaline.

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Futsal

Futsal is the only small sided format of the game recognised and supported by FIFA and UEFA. Futsal is a five-a-side game, normally played on a flat indoor pitch with hockey sized goals and a size 4 ball with a reduced bounce.

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New Age Kurling

For those of you not familiar with New Age Kurling, it was while watching an Ice Curling World Championships that John Bennett was asked by his son to think of...

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