Team sport includes any sport which involves people working together
towards a shared objective. Some team sports are practiced between
opposing teams, where the players interact directly and simultaneously
between them to achieve an objective. The objective generally involves
teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or similar item in
accordance with a set of rules, in order to score points.
However,
other types of team sports do not involve teammates facilitating the
movement of a ball or similar item in accordance with a set of rules, in
order to score points. For example, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, and
Dragon Boat Racing among others are also team sports. In other types of
team sports there may not be an opposing team or point scoring, for
example, mountaineering. Instead of points scored against an opposing
team, the relative difficulty of the climb or walk is the measure of the
achievement.