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Index 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 7th Francophone Games), were held in Nice, France, from September 6–15.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Association football, Basketball, Boxing, Cycle sport, Folk dance, François Hollande, France, French Community of Belgium, French language, Hip hop dance, Jeux de la Francophonie, Judo, Juggling, Nice, Painting, Photography, Place Masséna, Poetry, Puppetry, Sculpture, Senegalese wrestling, Song, Sport of athletics, Stade Charles-Ehrmann, Storytelling, Table tennis, Wrestling, 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie, 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie.

  2. 2013 in multi-sport events
  3. Jeux de la Francophonie
  4. Multi-sport events in France

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Cycle sport

Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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François Hollande

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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In Belgium, the French Community (Communauté française) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Hip hop dance

Hip hop dance is a range of street dance styles primarily performed to hip hop music or that have evolved as part of hip hop culture.

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Jeux de la Francophonie

The Jeux de la Francophonie (Canadian English: Francophonie Games; British English: Francophone Games) are a combination of artistic and sporting events for the Francophonie, mostly French-speaking nations and former colonies of France, held every four years since 1989.

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Judo

is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, Mistralian norm,; Nizza; Nissa; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Place Masséna

The Place Masséna is a historic square in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Puppetry

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Senegalese wrestling

Senegalese wrestling (in Serer, or simply in French, in Wolof, in Bambara) is a type of folk wrestling traditionally performed by the Serer people and now a national sport in Senegal and parts of The Gambia, and is part of a larger West African form of traditional wrestling (fr. Lutte Traditionnelle).

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Song

A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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Stade Charles-Ehrmann

Stade Charles-Ehrmann is a multi-use stadium in Nice, France.

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Storytelling

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics or embellishment.

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Table tennis

Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.

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2009 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie (6th Francophone Games), was an international multi-sport event held from 27 September to 6 October in Beirut, Lebanon. 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie and 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie are Jeux de la Francophonie.

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2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

The 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie, also known as VIIIèmes Jeux de la Francophonie (French for 8th Francophone Games), informally known as Abidjan 2017, took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from July 21–30. 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie and 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie are Jeux de la Francophonie.

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See also

2013 in multi-sport events

Jeux de la Francophonie

Multi-sport events in France

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Jeux_de_la_Francophonie

Also known as 2013 Francophone Games, 2013 Francophonie Games.