recreation

The Sprint Cup is a competition that pits stock car drivers against each other on a variety of racetracks where they compete at incredible speeds.

Provides simple information about soccer, such as apparel and teamwork.

Discover engaging information about baseball, including how to play, the history, equipment used and rules of the game.

Recounts the leisure time activities of a variety of creatures, from ants admiring paintings in an art gallery to zebras looking at New Zealand from their zeppelin.

Discusses the ways that Chinese children have amused themselves from ancient times to the present, with such games, toys, and sports as Chinese checkers, tangrams, paper folding, stilts, kites, ping pong, and martial arts.

Contains over 140 articles that provide information about leisure and recreational activities engaged in by Americans from the colonial era to the early twenty-first century; arranged alphabetically from A to L, with photographs and bibliographies.

Surveys various methods of leisure and recreation through the ages, in such categories as sports, circuses, painting, crafts, travel, and toys.

Highlights various forms of recreation enjoyed by the people of China.

Provides contemporary and historical information, including statistics, on several types and aspects of recreation in the U.S., including outdoor activities, the arts and media, popular sports, gambling, travel, recreation costs, and the role of recreation in American society.

Provides information on landmarks, museums, parks, sports activities, entertainment, restaurants, and more things to see and do in the Washington, D.C. area.