My favorite sport is playing football. I often play football in my spare time. After completing my home work at home, I generally spend my lot of free time in playing football. I was so interested to play football from my childhood however started learning to play well when I was 5 years old. I was in one class when I was 5 years old. My father asked to my class teacher in the PTM about my hobby of football. And my teacher told him that there is a facility of playing sports daily in the school from class 1 so you can admit your child. Now, I really enjoy playing football and participate in the inter-school competitions.

I play a lot of sports such as soccer, volleyball, basketball, but my favorite one is soccer. It quite simple as the twenty two players of both team try to lead the ball into their opponent’s goal. However, there are some other rules that players need to follow in order to have a fair game. There is an offside rule which prevent players from running towards the opposite goal before anybody else. There is one main referee who has full authority to enforce the laws on the players. He has the power to stop the game temporarily to check on the players’ fault, to give a yellow or direct red card or to give a penalty decision. His decision is the final one, and nobody can argue about it even though he also has two or four other assistants. An international standard soccer field need to be 100 to 110 meters in length, and 64 to 75 meters in width. A domestic standard soccer field is a little bit smaller or bigger, which is 90 to 120 meters in length, and 45 to 90 meters in width in provided that it do not become square. A soccer match consists of two half of 45 minutes each, and there is a small break of 15 minutes before both teams entering the second half. If there is no goal in that official time, they need to play for another extra time, which consists of two other 15 - minute periods. If there is still no goal in that time, the players then enter the penalty shootouts. There are five times for each team to score, and the one with the most scores becomes the winner of the whole match. Soccer can be known as the king sport, and people will never stop playing it.

My favorite sport is badminton, and I think it is a suitable sport for girls like me. I have been playing badminton since I was 12, and it is very good for me to improve my height. It needs at least two players to play, and we have to use rackets to hit a shuttlecock over a net. However, we can always play it in double form with two players each side or in larger teams. Points are counted when we can strike the shuttlecock across the net, and it lands within the opponent’s side of the court. We can also score when our opponent hit the shuttlecock but it does not go over the net or within our side. The scoring one can serve the shuttlecock, and it does not matter if the score is from the server and the receiver. There is one referee who sits on a very high chair right outside of the court and next to the net. He or she is the one who determines whether the shuttlecock touches the net or goes outside of the limit. Each game is played up to 21 points, if both of the players reach to 20 points, then they need to continue until one of them gains a two - point lead, for example 24 - 22. There are three sets in a match, and whoever win out of two sets, he or she wins the whole game. This is a quite simple sport without too many rules, and it does not require an ideal base of strength. Most of my girlfriends choose it as their main subject in Physical Education class, and we can both have fun and improve our health by it.

I do not play many kinds of sports, but I love to go swimming. Swimming is just my hobby, but sometimes I also participate in some competitions at my school and local area. When I first went to the pool, I just simply wanted to know how to survive when we felt into water, and it gradually became my favorite thing to do in free time. It took me two weeks to finally floating and swimming for a couple of meters. Before that, I had to struggle very hard and drink a lot of water. However, once I could learn the right technique, swimming became so easy and relaxing. Besides the chance to survive, it can also have many other positive impacts on me. After swimming for about two years, I became taller than most of my friends at the same age. Besides, my muscles also be stronger and tougher, and now I can swim or run slowly for a couple of kilometers without being too tired. I usually go to the pool at the weekend, but if there is an upcoming competition, I have to practice for almost everyday. My strong point is swimming in short distance because I can swim pretty fast. Therefore, I usually sign up in the 100m and 200m categories. The time result is the one to determine the winner, and we need to train to become faster and faster after each competition. I have two bronze medals, two silver medals and one gold medals; my mother keeps them carefully in a glass cabinet, and I can say that they are my biggest pride. Swimming is not simply an activity, but it is both a surviving skill and a supporter for our health. I see many benefits of it, so I will always keep on swimming.

My favorite outdoor activity is volleyball, and I usually play with my friends in our free time. Volleyball is a team sport with six players on each team, and they are separated by a long net. The complete set of rules is pretty extensive, but in short a player begins a rally by serving the ball from behind the limit line on the back of the court. The receiving team must not let the ball touch the ground within the court, and each team can only touch the ball for 2 times before making an attack. Both teams try to score points by hitting the ball over the net, and that ball has to hit the inner ground of the court. Besides, one team can also get point from their opponent’s fault. Some of the common faults are causing the ball to land on the outside of the boundary, catching or throwing the ball, letting the ball or the arms touch the net, and contacting with the ball more than 3 times in a row. One match consists of five sets, and we need to score up to 25 points first to win a set. The fifth set is usually played to 15 points, and whoever wins three out of five sets wins the total game. Although the rules seem complicated, we do not have to follow them strictly because we just play it for fun. It really helps me to improve my health as well as my height, and it is a pretty good sport to keep my body in shape. I become taller, and both of my arms and legs also become stronger. I actually play some other sports such as badminton and swimming, but volleyball is always my favorite activity to do in my free time.

Among my favourite sports and hobbies, I like swimming the best for several reasons. Firstly, I think playing in the water could bring great joy. It also helps reduce stress and I always feel refreshed and relaxed after swimming for about half an hour. Secondly, swimming is an excellent way to keep myself fit and healthy. It helps build up my muscle strength and prevent many heart and lung diseases. Finally, besides being a great sport, swimming is also an important survival skill, because without knowing how to swim well, it could be dangerous if there is a flood, or simply if we want to play near bodies of water. Many of such accidents have occured to teenagers lately. In conclusion, swimming will always be my preferred hobby because it is not only healthy and fun but also a life-saving skill.