Sports in French - Les sports en français

In this video we will learn the names of some common sports in French. Of course, there are many sports which aren’t listed here, so if you would like to know the name of a sport which is not in this list, please feel free to ask in a comment. I won’t translate all these names as they should be pretty clear. I will just comment on “l’escrime“ and “l’équitation“, which are both feminine words. “Le sport“ is a masculine noun. “Le football“ in French refers to what people call “soccer“ in North America and it’s often shortened as “le foot“. Similarly, we often use “le basket“, “le hand“, “le volley“, to talk about “le basketball“, “le handball“ and “le volley-ball“. You can write “le basket-ball“ or le “basketball“ in French, but really people mostly call it “le basket“. However, this rule wouldn’t apply to “le baseball&q