Kabaddi

Kabaddi is a contact team sport.The game is said to have had its inception in the southern state of Tamil Nadu,India. The word ‘kabaddi’ owes its origin to the Tamil word, ‘kai-pidi’, which means holding hands. It is popular in South Asia and is the state game of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, uttar pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab and Telangana and is the national sport of Bangladesh.

Kabaddi is played between two teams of seven players; the object of the game is for a single player on offence, referred to as a "raider", to run into the opposing team's half of a court, tag out as many of their defenders as possible, and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders. Points are scored for each player tagged by the raider, while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are tagged or tackled, but can be "revived" for each point scored by their team from a tag or tackle.

The game is known by its regional names in different parts of the subcontinent, such as kabaddi or chedugudu in Andhra Pradesh, kabaddi in Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana, hadudu in Bangladesh, bhavatik in Maldives, kauddi or kabaddi in the Punjab region, hu-tu-tu in Western India and hu-do-do in Eastern India and chadakudu in South India.