Curling
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Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, ea
Curling games taking place during the 2005 Tim Hortons Brier
Detail from a reproduction of Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (Bruegel, 1565)
A curling match at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1860. The curling house is located to the left of the picture.
Group of people curling on a lake in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, c. 1897
Boules
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Boules, or jeu de boules, is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball
Curling
…a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet…
Boules
Boules player, by Paul Gavarni, 1858
Sport boulles à Conand 2016
Petanque Boules on the beach