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Curling

players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards the target area. At its core, the sport is about place stones closer to the centre of the house than the opposition. Participation format: Team, mixed doubles, wheelchair. It is typically contested on or in Curling sheet. Scoring is based on End scoring by stone position. Core equipment includes Stones, brooms, curling shoes. Important forms include Team, Mixed doubles, Wheelchair curling. Listed competitions include World Curling Championships, Olympic Curling, World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. Origin/development: Schottland, 1838. The sport is actively practiced today.

LevelMain sport FamilyWinter Sport CategoryWinter sport

Representative sports image for Curling — Martin Rulsch, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image source

Classification

Category Winter sport

Family Winter Sport

Level Main sport

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards the target area.

Geeignet für Fits if you like calm precision and team tactics, you want a social winter sport with learn-to-curl entry, you prefer finesse, balance and communication over speed.

Cost 20-200 EUR depending on equipment and venue. 0-80 EUR per month depending on class, club, or venue. 5-50 EUR per month if a club structure exists. For rare sports, cost and availability vary strongly.

First progress Depending on sport, from immediate to several months.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

Warm stretchy clothing, clean indoor shoes, gloves/hat by rink; clubs usually provide stone, broom, slider/gripper and instruction for beginners.

First steps

Start with learn-to-curl: clean shoes, on-ice briefing, stone delivery, sweeping, simple strategy and usually a short game.
Look for a curling club, USA/national find-a-club, learn-to-curl session, adult learn-to-curl programme or university/bonspiel entry.

Look for a curling club, USA/national find-a-club, learn-to-curl session, adult learn-to-curl programme or university/bonspiel entry.

Start only in the appropriate source-described context and follow local rules.

Weitere Angaben

Aliases Curling mixed doubles, Curling team, Mixed doubles curling, Stick curling, Floor curling, Curling Mixed Doubles

Tags team, ice, eis, curling, winter-sport, wintersport, curling-mixed-doubles, curling-team

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

The objective is to place stones closer to the centre of the house than the opposition.

Teilnehmer

Teams, mixed doubles, and wheelchair formats.

Teamgröße

Classic 4 vs 4; mixed doubles 2 vs 2.

Spielfeld

Ice sheet with houses, hacks, and markings.

Dauer

Games consist of ends.

Wertung

Only one team scores in each end with stones closest to the button.

Gewinnbedingung

Highest score after the set number of ends wins.

Ausrüstung

Curling stone
broom
curling shoes
ice sheet

Wichtige Regelpunkte

Hog-line violation
touched stone
wrong order
time violation

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

World Curling (World Curling)

What is curling? World Curling · federation-guide · medium
Intro to Curling USA Curling · beginner-guide · medium
Education - Getting Started for Adults Curling Canada · program-guide · medium
How to get started in curling Goldline Curling · equipment-blog-guide · medium
Topend Sports Topend Sports · aggregator · medium