Sports and recreation

Main article: Sports in Nepal

Nepali indigenous sports, like dandi biyo and kabaddi which were considered the unofficial national sports until recently,[323] are still popular in rural areas.
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Despite efforts, standardisation and development of dandi biyo has not been achieved, [365][366] while Kabaddi, as a professional sport, is still in its infancy in Nepal.
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Bagh-chal, an ancient board game that is thought to have originated in Nepal, can be played on chalk-drawn boards, with pebbles, and is still popular today. [368]
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Ludo, snakes and ladders and carrom are popular pastimes.[370] Chess is also played.[364] Volleyball was declared as the national sport of Nepal in 2017.
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Popular children's games include versions of tag,[364] knucklebones,[364] hopscotch, Duck, duck, goose[364] and lagori, while marbles,[364] top, hoop rolling and gully
cricket are also popular among boys. Rubber bands, or ranger bands cut from tubes in bike tyres, make a multi-purpose sporting equipment for Nepali children,
which may be bunched or chained together, and used to play dodgeball, cat's cradle, jianzi[364] and a variety of skipping rope games.[364]

Nepali cricket fans are renowned for their exceptionally enthusiastic support of their national
team. [371][372]

Football and cricket are popular professional sports.[373] Nepal is competitive in football in the South Asia region but has never won the SAFF championships, but
has had some success in South Asian Games.[374][375] It usually ranks in the bottom quarter in the FIFA World Rankings.[376] Nepal has had some success in cricket
and holds ODI status,[377][378] consistently ranking in the Top 20 in the ICC ODI and T20I rankings.[379][380] Nepal has had some success in athletics and martial arts,
having won many medals at the South Asian Games and some at the Asian Games.[381] Nepal has never won an Olympic medal.[382] Sports like basketball,
volleyball, futsal, wrestling, competitive bodybuilding[382][383] and badminton are also gaining in popularity.[364] Women in football, cricket, athletics, martial arts,
badminton and swimming have found some success.[384][382] Nepal also fields players and national teams in several tournaments for disabled individuals, most
notably in men's[385] as well as women's blind cricket.[386]

The only international stadium in the country is the multi-purpose Dasarath Stadium where the men and women national football teams play their home matches.
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Since the formation of the national team, Nepal has played its home matches of cricket at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground.[388] Nepal police,
Armed police force and Nepal army are the most prolific producers of national players, and aspiring players are known to join armed forces, for the better sporting
opportunities they can provide.[389][390] Nepali sports is hindered by a lack of infrastructure,[391] funding,[385] corruption, nepotism and political interference.[381][392][393] Very
few players are able to make a living as professional sportspeople.[387][394]

See also

 Nepal portal

 Asia portal

 Outline of Nepal

Citations
Notes

1. ^ English: /nɪˈpɑːl/,[14] /-ˈpɑːl/ ne-PAHL, -PAHL; Nepali: नेपाल Nepali pronunciation: [nepal] ⓘ
2. ^ Nepali: संघीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल
3. ^ The entire territory controlled by the monarch seated in Kathmandu at any given time would also be referred to as Nepal. Thus, at times, only the Kathmandu
valley was considered Nepal while at other times, Nepal would encompass an area comparable to and largely overlapping with the modern state of Nepal.[15]
4. ^ The word pala in Pali language means to protect. Consequently, Nepala translates to protected by Ne.
5. ^ Nepalamahatmya, of 30 chapters about the Nepal Tirtha (pilgrimage) region, is a regional text that claims to be a part of the Skanda Purana, the
largest Mahāpurāṇa.
6. ^ On Samudragupta's Allahabad Pillar, Nepal is mentioned as a border country.
7. ^ This trichotomy is a prominent feature of Nepali discourse and is represented in the Emblem of Nepal, with blue and white peaks signifying Himal, green hills
below them signifying Pahad and the yellow strip at the bottom signifying the Terai belt.
8. ^ 198 ecological types were first proposed in 1976, which was further revised and reduced to 118, which was further reduced by IUCN to 59 in 1998, which was
further reduced to 36 in 2002. As this issue has yet to be settled, the 35-forest-type classification is generally preferred to the ecological categorisation.[91]
9. ^ According to the 2019 IUCN red list, two species of mammals, one bird species and three amphibian species are endemic to Nepal.[105]
10. ^ However, same-sex marriage with foreign nationals occurring in a jurisdiction that recognises same-sex marriage is now recognised in Nepal, for eligibility to
obtain a "non-tourist visa" as dependent of a Nepali citizen, by verdict of the Supreme Court in 2017, as the laws do not make sex-specific distinction in provisions
relating to the rights of foreign nationals married to Nepali citizens.[143]
 11. ^ October 2019, IMF update, excludes Somalia and Syria.
12. ^ October 2019, IMF update; excludes Somalia, Syria, and Venezuela.

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