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Unit

Athletics and Adventurous Activities

Observe the pictures and discuss the questions given below .

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a. Are the activities like walking, running, and throwing as shown
in the pictures conducted in your school?

b. What are such activities called? In which of these activities do
you take part?

7 .1 Athletics

Athletics is the con1bination of different activities like walking,
running, throwing and jumping. This is also called track and field.
Athletics can be taken as the basic sports activity for any game.
Walking and running in athletics are track events and, throwing and
jumping are field events. In this unit, we will practise the skills of
3,000 metres race, a relay race with batons, long jump, high jump
and shotput.

7.1.1 3,000 m Race

A 3,000 m race is a long race. It belongs to the track event. This is
also known as the 3K run. To complete a 3,000 m race, the athletes
need to run 7.5 laps around a 400 m track or 15 laps around a 200
96 Health, Physical ai1d Creillive arts, grade 8