United Kingdom is the common name for “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. It is the combination of four countries: Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England.

Sports are important in every society. Sport is a physical activity ruled by an array of customs and rules and more often it is competitive. It is a form of leisure activity or recreation of groups of people. In every society playing a sport is almost important as survival. I never heard of any society, modern or ancient that do not involved in sport.

Here is a list of United Kingdom’s most popular sport. These sports are watched over in these places with passion and vigor. Tourist all over the world flocked to United Kingdom to be part of these games. These games have international governing bodies.

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Hop in with these most popular sports in United Kingdom.

• Football- The football team of the United Kingdom should represent or stand for United Kingdom at Olympic. Yet, a football does not currently exist in United Kingdom. Though individual teams exist for each four countries that competes in European Championships or the World cup.

• Rugby- Rugby is a full contact sport. It means that there is some important physical contact involve in the sport. It is played with a spheroid shaped ball. There are two forms of rugby. The Rugby League and the Rugby Union. Rugby League originates and is very popular in Northern England while Rugby Union is played popularly in Southern England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. In rugby League on the past years, UK has one single team the “Great Britain Team”. Yet this year the countries Ireland, England and Scotland will have one representative for each country for the World Cup, 2008 Rugby League.

• Cricket- The second most popular sport in UK after football. It is a team sport composed of two teams. It is a ball and bat games. The term used when one team scored is “run”. Each team’s goal is to have as many runs as possible. The “International Cricket Council” is the body that governs the play of cricket internationally. Cricket’s modern type originated in the country of England. Over a 100 countries are member of the council.