10 Most Famous Sports in Villages of India – Local Games

Sports today is an integral part of the all round development of the human personality. India offers different adventures sports like khusti a traditional sports most popular in north India.

Hockey The national game, in which India has an impressive record with eight Olympic gold medals. Sports in Rural Areas showing the recent success of India at the Olympics.

Tir Dhanush ! Bow & Arrow – Archery

Archery is a skill of using a bow to shoot arrows, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity.

Yubi Lakpi

Yubi lakpi is a seven-a-side traditional football game played in Manipur, some notable similarities to rugby but played using a coconut.

Gilli – Danda

It is a sport played by using two stick, Small one known as Gilli and other long one is called Danda. This is very popular game among boys in villages of India.

Chaupar/Chausar

Chaupar is the game which was used to play by Shiva and Parvati, A very much similar to pachisi, played in ancient India. In this game seven cowry shells to be used instead of long dice or Pasha.

Kite Flying

Kite flying is the most popular game of India as well in Asia. Kites are also known as patang is India. The line used is called Manjha, a glass coated line, and each flier attempts to cut every other kite out of the sky.

Kene

Naga wrestling is a folk wrestling style and traditional sport of the Nagas, Kene is one of the oldest traditional games of the Nagas.

Satoliya ! Pithoo

This game is very popular among boys and girls, It is a simple and inexpensive game, It need 7 small flat stones, every stone size should be less than the other stone. Put these stones over another in decreasing order its looks like a small tower then hit it by cloths made hand ball form a fixed distance. Any number of people can play it. This game is also known as Pithoo in some region of India.

Kancha ! Marble Games

It is very famous as gully sports or street game, played by number of small boys in villages as well as in town. It is played using marbles called Kancha. The winner take all Kancha’s of other boys.

Lattu ! Spinning Top

The street game of India, This is a very popular and simple game which can be played by children in villages of India. The game involves spinning a lattu – a solid turnip shaped wooden toy with a grooved lower half with two nails dug at the top and the bottom.

Tree Climbing

Tree climbing does not sounds like a sport but indeed a great local games to built fitness and strength. This recreational activity consisting of moving around in the branches of trees and getting down without any support.

Kabaddi ! Kho-Kho ! Mallakhamb

Pehlwani, also known as Kushti, is a form of wrestling contested in the Indian subcontinent. Wrestling is the form of modern Pehelwani and very popular in India since ancient times where it was famously known as Malla-yuddha.