Historically, gravedigging has not been considered a respectable profession. Because of their association with death, gravediggers are sometimes thought to be at least ritually unclean if not physically dirty.But it's a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/18/Hungary-Wins-World-Grave-Digging-Competition/The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago off the coast of western Africa. Before tourism transformed the islands into a sunny destination, the economy was dominated by shepherding. Long centuries of this profession l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/08/18/Shepherds-Leap-The-Folk-Sport-of-the-Canary-Islands/USA Today reports that Brooklyn Anderson, a high school student student at a state-wide track and field competition in Oregon, stumbled at the end of a 100-meter hurdles race.Even though she was in the lead, that fall pr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/06/07/Track-Star-Somersaults-to-Victory-after-Tripping/Great Big Story introduces us to the NYO Games. Yo... ...ve communities come together to compete in twelve sports . These events are developed from the practical ne... ...raordinary athletic skills and describe how these sports help participants connect with their heritages.
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/17/The-Native-Alaskan-Games-Are-Sports-Taken-from-Practical-Traditions/In Novaria di Sicilia, a neighborhood of Messina,... ...ns. It's called Lancio del Mairochino.Traditional Sports explains that residents take a wheel of the local...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/17/The-Sicilian-Sport-of-Cheese-Rolling/Do you remember ice tennis? It's tennis placed on skates on an ice rink. Ice football is similar in that it is American football* except played on an ice rink. No, the players aren't wearing skates. They're wearing shoes...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/07/The-Sport-of-Ice-Football/Board racing is a traditional sport of the Zhuang people, an ethnic minority in southern China. Legend has it that the sport was devised as a military training technique. In this video, you can see why: the sport require...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/05/The-Sport-of-Shoe-Board-Racing-2/Spikeball is a recently-invented game that developed from volleyball. A webpage from Southern Arkansas University summarizes the rules. Two teams of two players each surround a circular let. Each person bounces a ball to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/08/How-to-Play-Spikeball/Conkers is a traditional British game that uses conkers--the fruits of a horse chestnut tree. They're inedible by humans, so Britons instead drill holes through them and attached a cord. Two players square off against ea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/10/18/Conkers-Champion-Accused-of-Cheating/Think of the Tour de Donut of Troy, Ohio as a race that combines competitive eating and bike racing. It's the chessboxing of the bicycle world.Competitors race their bikes to a sequence of participating donut shops. Each...
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