Best Winter Sports across the Globe

                           
Winter sports are generally played in winter. Some winter sports are very traditional in the west. Among them snowboarding, sledding, snowmobiling, skating, skiing ice hockey, sledge hockey, snow rugby, snowman building, broom ball, curling, bandy, snow biking, ice climbing etc. are the most popular sports.
Now, here in this article I am going to inform you some most popular winter sports those are really amazing and I am sure you are going to try these in this vacation. Let’s go through the world’s most popular water sports.

Snowboarding

Snowboarding is an Olympic sport. It needs a snowboard which is adjoined to the feet of a rider. The rider tries to alight from higher platforms covered with snow. It has its own style and technique to play. It has many variety like alpine snowboarding, slope-style, free-riding etc.

Ice Skating

Ice skating is one of the most popular sports in the west. Ice skating means moving and running on ice with ice skates. It is played both in indoor and outdoor on prepared surface of ice or on natural surface of ice such as frozen river, ponds etc. Experience and skill is a must for ice skating.

Skiing

Skiing is another popular winter sport. It is usually a competitive sport. A rider or a participant glides on the snow using skis attached to the feet. There are varieties of skiing like alpine, nordic, telemark, freestyle etc. Skiing is very popular and every year it is played internationally.

Sledding

Sledding is played by carrying out a seated position on wheeler or non-wheeler hacker. This is called sledge. It is played in the areas covered with lots of snow. Sledding has varieties like modern sledding, back-country sledding etc.

Ice Hockey

Ice hockey is a game played in teams. It is played on ice surface between two teams with hockey sticks.  It is also a very popular winter sport.

Ice Climbing

Ice climbing means climbing on ice formations with protection. Formations that are covered with snow such as waterfalls, ice-falls, rocks are used for ice climbing.

Bandy

Bandy is similar to ice hockey. It is a team sport where players try to reach the ball into the opponent’s goal bar with a stick.
There are a lot of winter sports across the world which are enjoyable as well as dangerous. Everyone should be properly protected before starting playing these games. These games are so funny and enjoyable so every year people wait for winter so that they can play these games.