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 volleyball. You can write le basketball or le basketball in French, but really people mostly call it le basket. However, this rule wouldn t apply to le baseball q