Sport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has given birth to a range of major international sports including: association football, rugby (union and league), cricket, netball, darts, golf, tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, bowls, modern rowing,hockey, ice hockey, boxing, snooker, billiards, and curling.

This has meant that in the infancy of many sports, England, Scotland Wales and Ireland formed among the earliest separate governing bodies, national teams and domestic league competitions. After 1922 some sports formed separate bodies for Northern Ireland though some continued to be organised on an all-Ireland basis.

In a small number of sports, these teams are supplemented by high-profile events featuring a combined team representing one or more nations.

For more information on most sports you may wish, therefore, to consider reading the Sport in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland articles, or the Sport in Ireland article where appropriate.

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