SPORTS IN EGYPT

In Old Egypt, people who had free time used to spend time in enjoying certain games and sports, on everything between the highest classes. Of course, children were those that played more during their childhood, and have arrived until us diverse toys and table games that therefore demonstrate it. The small ones of all the social classes could have toys done of wood (raw material difficult to find in Egypt and that we suppose that they would obtain the highest classes to it of the society), fabric or mud, like arms, movable animal wrists, figures and people,

But also they dedicated to the communal games with its friends al free air, as fights, jumps, races and others very similar to which at the moment continues playing the children of all the world. A game that has been left engraving in the tombs is the well-known as "Game of the star", practiced as much by children and who consisted of which two of them held by the wrists to other two inclined and supported companions in the ground by the heels, while both first they had to rotate to his around to both seconds.

Between adults, entertainment of the games was more practiced by the high class, that had more time to dedicate al leisure. Aside from the table games, of which we will speak more ahead, the hunting or the fishing was dedicated to other necessities, as to please (and not by nourishing necessity).

masculine sports it seems that they were a species of military training for the war. Athletics practiced, specially the individual races or in group, the length and high jumps and the rise of weights. Competitions with chosen referees were even organized to guarantee the good operation of the game, and it was awarded to the winners with necklaces. Also there is registry of a sport very similar to the present jockey that gambled with woods and small balls, and that at the moment practices still in some zones of Egypt.

By as much, the sports them we can classify in two categories al less: one like leisure activities and entertainment, and another one like military training. Within this last one we can include, aside from the boxing, the ecuestres fight or races, activities and the shot with arc.


finally, I can also claim, the Egyptian town enjoyed its leisure of different ways, and one of them was practicing sport or dinner services, with an idea that has arrived to the present time, and is to be able to maintain a healthy body with a healthy mind.