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Ringette is a team sport with four variations, one winter and three indoor and outdoor versions. The winter sport is played on an ice rink. In the indoor court version one is called by its initial name, Floor hockey while the more modernized version is called Gym Ringette.〔http://www.ontario-ringette.com/gymringette.pdf〕 Two of the indoor gymnasium versions are North American and one other unrelated version is South American. This article focuses on the winter sport. The game objective is to out score the opposing team. Created in the country of Canada, the sport is played on an ice surface, primarily by women and girls, and requires the use of ice skates. The sport uses a blue-colored, rubber pneumatic ring and all players with the exception of goaltenders use a straight stick. One of the sport's most recognizable and defining features is the fact that it doesn't involve the use of intentional body contact as a strategic component. Despite its primary popularity among female participants the sport is officially co-ed. ==History== Ringette is a Canadian sport game played on ice,on skates,predominantly by females, on a rink typically designed for hockey. From its modest beginnings in 1963 in Northern Ontario, the game has grown to all parts of Canada,U.S.A.,Finland, Sweden and France.Ringette boasts a Canadian championship, a world championship and inclusion in the Canada Winter Games. The game of ringette was invented in 1963 by the Northern Ontario Recreation Directors Association (NORDA) and led by the two founders of Ringette, Sam Jacks, from West Ferris, Ontario, director of Parks and Recreation for the city of North Bay, Ontario and Mirl "Red" McCarthy, recreation director for the town of Espanola, Ontario. The title of birthplace of ringette is shared by both North Bay, Ontario, and Espanola, Ontario, where the first game was played in the fall of 1963 under the direction of McCarthy. NORDA was a regional organization composed of members from a large area that included the Ontario communities of North Bay, Espanola, Deep River, Elliot Lake, Huntsville, Sturgeon Falls, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Onaping and Phelps; as well as Témiscaming, Québec. The body recognized the problem of limited girls' winter recreational programs and decided to find a solution. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ringette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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