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Sport in Worthing, the Glossary

A wide variety of sport in Worthing has been played, which has a long and interesting history.^[1]

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Angmering

Angmering is a village and civil parish between Littlehampton and Worthing in West Sussex on the southern edge of the South Downs National Park, England.

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Angmering School

The Angmering School is a coeducational community secondary school and sixth form located in Angmering, West Sussex that opened in 1975.

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Arthur Somerset Sr.

Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset (20 September 1855 – 8 January 1937) was an English first-class cricketer.

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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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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beach House Park, Worthing

Beach House Park is a formal garden in Worthing, a town and local government district in West Sussex, England. Sport in Worthing and Beach House Park, Worthing are Worthing.

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Bernard Hunt

Bernard John Hunt, MBE (2 February 1930 – 21 June 2013) was an English professional golfer.

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Boat racing

Boat racing is a sport in which boats, or other types of watercraft, race on water.

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Bowling green

A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.

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Bowls England

Bowls England governs the game of flat green outdoor bowls for men and women in England.

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December).

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Brighton Bears

Brighton Bears was a British basketball team based in Brighton, Sussex.

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Brighton Rugby Club is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the country founded in 1868.

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The Brighton, Hove & District Football League was a football competition involving teams in and around Brighton, Hove and Worthing, in England.

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Byron Dafoe

Byron Dafoe (born February 25, 1971) is a British-Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.

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Catamaran

A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.

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Chanctonbury Ring

Chanctonbury Ring is a prehistoric hill fort atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in the English county of West Sussex.

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County Championship

The County Championship, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Croquet

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.

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Cyclosportive

A cyclosportive, or often simply sportive, is a short to long distance, organised, mass-participation cycling event, typically held annually.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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David Bryant (bowls)

David John Bryant (27 October 1931 – 27 August 2020) was a three-times World (outdoors) singles bowls champion (in 1966, 1980 and 1988), a three-times World indoors singles champion (in 1979, 1980 and 1981) and a four times Commonwealth Games singles gold medallist.

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David Leadbetter (golf instructor)

David Leadbetter (born 27 June 1952) is a leading golf instructor, originally from Worthing in Sussex, England.

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Devil's Dyke, Sussex

Devil's Dyke is a 100 metre (300') deep V-shaped dry valley on the South Downs in Sussex in southern England, north-west of Brighton.

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Donald Smith (cricketer, born 1923)

Donald Victor Smith (14 June 1923 – 10 January 2021) was an English cricketer, who played in three Tests for England in 1957.

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Durrington, West Sussex

Durrington is a neighbourhood of Worthing and former civil parish, now in the borough of Worthing in West Sussex, England. Sport in Worthing and Durrington, West Sussex are Worthing.

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England cricket team

The England men's cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket.

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Eric Parsons

Eric George Parsons (9 November 1923 – 7 February 2011) was a footballer who played for West Ham United, Chelsea and Brentford in England.

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Field hockey

Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper.

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Harrison James Reed (born 27 January 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for club Fulham.

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Henfield

Henfield is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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International Birdman

The International Birdman was a series of English competitions held in the West Sussex towns of Bognor Regis, Selsey and Worthing. Sport in Worthing and International Birdman are Worthing.

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Isthmian League

The Isthmian League is a regional football league covering Greater London, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs.

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Jason Lewry

Jason Lewry (born 2 April 1971) is an English former cricketer.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

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Kiteboarding

Kiteboarding or kitesurfing is a sport that involves using wind power with a large power kite to pull a rider across a water, land, snow, sand, or other surface.

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Lisa John

Lisa John (born 14 August 1981) is an English ten-pin bowler.

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Manor Sports Ground

The Manor Sports Ground, is a cricket venue in Worthing, West Sussex, England. Sport in Worthing and Manor Sports Ground are Worthing.

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Martin Lee (tennis)

Martin Lee (born 13 January 1978) is an English former professional tennis player.

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Motorsport

Motorsport(s) or motor sport(s) are sporting events, competitions and related activities that primarily involve the use of automobiles, motorcycles, motorboats and powered aircraft.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking (MTB) is a sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, usually using specially designed mountain bikes.

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National Basketball League (England)

The National Basketball League, or NBL for short, is a league competition representing semi-professional and amateur basketball clubs from England and Wales.

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National League 1

National One, up until 2023 known as National League 1 and previously known before September 2009 as National Division Two), is the third of three national leagues in the domestic rugby union competition of England. It was known as Courage League National Division Three when founded in 1987. Chinnor are the current champions.

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Neil Lenham

Neil John Lenham (born 17 December 1965) is a former English cricketer who played for Sussex and captained the England Under-19 cricket team in 3 Tests and 3 ODIs earlier in his career.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Penfold Tournament

The Penfold Tournament was a golf tournament on the British PGA tournament circuit.

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Peter Bonetti

Peter Philip Bonetti (27 September 1941 – 12 April 2020) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Chelsea, the St. Louis Stars, Dundee United and England.

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PGA European Tour

The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe.

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Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom

The history of professional wrestling in the United Kingdom spans over one hundred years beginning in the 1920s, when it was popularised under the concept of "All in Wrestling", which emphasised an "anything goes" style and presentation.

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Rowing (sport)

Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Ryder Cup

The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between European and United States teams.

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The Southern Combination Football League (named Premier Sports Southern Combination Football League) is a football league broadly covering the counties of East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and South West London, England.

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Sport in Sussex

Sport in Sussex forms an important part of the culture of Sussex.

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Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Sussex Cricket League

The Sussex Cricket League, founded in 1971, is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Sussex, England, and since 1999 the Premier Division has been a designated ECB Premier League.

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The Sussex Rugby Football Union is the society responsible for rugby union in the county of Sussex, England and is one of the constituent bodies of the national Rugby Football Union.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

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Swindon

Swindon is a town in Wiltshire, England.

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Ten-pin bowling

Ten-pin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle.

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Tony Allcock

Anthony Allcock (born 1955) is an English bowls player.

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Tour of Britain

The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time.

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Triathlon

A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances.

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Ultramarathon

An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of.

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Water polo

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each.

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West Worthing

West Worthing is a neighbourhood of Worthing in West Sussex, England that was developed within Heene and later expanded beyond Heene's boundaries. Sport in Worthing and West Worthing are Worthing.

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William Kennedy Dickson

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.

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Windsurfing

Windsurfing is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing.

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World lawn and indoor bowls events

These are the premier International Bowls Events between national bowls organisations affiliated to World Bowls, the PBA, World Bowls Tour and the IIBC.

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Worthing

Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester.

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The Worthing and District Football League was a football competition based in Sussex, England.

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