2023, Vol. 10, Issue 2, Part G

This paper is highlighted to Agility on Kho Kho Players. Kho-Kho game is one of the indigenous games of India, played between two teams of nine players each. It is characteristically a chase and dodge game. The players are required to have great amount of stamina speed and agility. The Kho-Kho is one of the most popular traditional sports in India and it is played quite extensively in the country. The game is a great test of the participants physical fitness, strength, speed and stamina and it is also requires a certain amount of ability on behalf of the participants. Though there is confusion about the exact timing of the inception of Kho-Kho and also about the origin of the game, many historians say that it is actually a modified form of ‘Run Chase’. In Kho-Kho, the participants simply need to chase and touch their opponents to win the game. In the ancient time, the game of Kho-Kho was played on ‘raths’ or chariots in Maharashtra and it was known as Rathera.