Subject

Sports

From playground games and the Olympics to the pro leagues and the science of the moving body - one tiny step at a time.

Sports covers the major games and their rules, plus the science underneath: fitness, training, muscles and energy systems, nutrition, injury prevention and the history of competition including the Olympics.

The training and physiology units are useful to anyone who exercises, not only to competitors. Understanding why warming up works, or how interval training differs from steady effort, tends to change what people actually do.

Sport is one of the largest shared cultural experiences there is, and understanding the rules and the science makes both watching and doing it substantially better.

Units: 18
Steps: 378
Questions: 2,160

Who this track is for

Primary level rules and basics through to secondary PE and sports science.

How to approach it

The physiology units apply to any activity, not just organised sport
Rules questions are easier once you understand why the rule exists
Injury prevention is the most practically valuable part of the track

Study guide · 8 min readHow to Learn About SportSport is more interesting when you can see what is actually happening. A guide to reading an unfamiliar game from its scoring, why tactics are visible once you know where to look, and the training science people most reliably ignore.

What you will be able to do

Follow an unfamiliar sport from its scoring and objective
Explain offside, downs or an over without hedging
Say why recovery matters as much as training
Judge a claim about performance against how it would be tested

The thing people get wrong

That improvement comes from training harder. Adaptation happens during recovery, not during the session, and more work without more rest reliably makes performance worse - which is the most ignored finding in sports science.

If you only do 3 units

What a sport is, how rules and tactics shape what you are watching, and the science underneath performance. Those three transfer to any individual sport in the track.

What the questions look like

8 real questions from across the Sports track, easiest first, each with the answer and the reason behind it. Every unit page below has thirty more.

Build the sentenceLevel 1
1. Build a true sentence about soccer.
Answer: We kick a round ball in soccer
Soccer uses a round ball that players kick with their feet.
Build the sentenceLevel 1
2. Build a true sentence about skipping.
Answer: You jump over the rope when you skip
When you skip, you jump over the rope as it comes around.
Build the sentenceLevel 1
3. Build the true sentence about winning the Olympics.
Answer: The winner gets the gold medal
The winner of an event gets the gold medal.
Choose all that applyLevel 1
4. Which of these games use catching with your hands? Pick all that apply.
- Baseballcorrect
- Netballcorrect
- Playing catchcorrect
- Soccer
Baseball, netball and playing catch all use your hands, but soccer uses your feet.
Fact or fibLevel 2
5. Cristiano Ronaldo plays for the national team of Portugal.
Answer: True
Cristiano Ronaldo is Portugal's captain and record goalscorer.
Build the sentenceLevel 2
6. Build a true sentence about team size.
Answer: Each team has five players on the court
Each team keeps five players on the court at once.
Build the sentenceLevel 2
7. Build a true sentence about the rules of American football.
Answer: A team has four downs to gain ten yards
A team has four downs to gain ten yards and keep the ball.
Build the sentenceLevel 2
8. Build a true sentence about baseball.
Answer: The batter hits the ball thrown by the pitcher
In baseball the batter tries to hit the ball thrown by the pitcher.

Units in Sports

Listed in the order they are meant to be worked through.

Practise Sports

2,160 questions, in tiny sessions you can finish in a few minutes.

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Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.