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There are several different kinds of sports being played today. Sports range from track events such as running, to field events such as javelin throws, and team games like hockey, football, cricket, and rugby. Sports also include two player or four player games like badminton, table tennis and lawn tennis.
For every kind of sport, certain types of sports clothing is required. This clothing is termed as sportswear. Companies have come up with unique ideas to cater to the sportsmen and their clothing. Sportswear has become a major industry today with all kinds of fashionable and trendy outfits designed for each and every sport.
Sports also include skating, street dancing, and such games played on the side of your road. Believe it or not, companies have come up with clothing even for such sport events and have termed it as urban wear. There are companies that cater specifically to such target markets too.
In addition to that, there are different sportswear designed for wearing during the actual sporting event and different sportswear that is worn when you are just training for a sport. Hence training wear is another line that the sportswear industry caters to.
Some sports require sporting equipment or gear to play the sport. For example, tennis requires rackets, football requires a ball, boxing requires gloves, and so on. Such equipment is termed as MMA gear; also known as Mixed Material Arts gear.
When designing sports clothing, companies should keep in mind the requirements of athletes. The clothing should be lightweight, loose enough, and not too bulky. This enables athletes to have freedom of movement in whatever they are wearing. Sportswear should also take into consideration the weather situation. In hot weather, the clothing should keep the wearer cold, and in cold weather, the wearer should be kept warm. In addition to that, sportswear should also be able to keep the sweat away from the skin as this could be very frustrating when the activity is in progress.
One last requirement for sportswear is that team sports need standardized or uniform outfits for every member of the team. The reason being that the two teams could be differentiated with just a glance. Furthermore, each individual member should be identified by a number/name on the back of his/her clothes.
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