### activity | game | football | soccer:

Competitive soccer
* builds muscle power and speed.
* is more expensive than Recreational soccer.

Indoor soccer
* consists of two teams with five players each.
* is more akin to hockey and basketball than to outdoor soccer
  - sports
  - the player's game
* refers to any of several variations on soccer that are played indoors.
* uses a smaller ball and a smaller playing area.

Outdoor soccer
* goes indoors in the winter.
* is the true sport.

### activity | game | game bird:

Grouse
* Many grouse have a reputation for being a little slow.
* are birds
  - common trail crossers, leaving their four-toedfootprints close together
  - game birds
  - henlike terrestrial birds, protectively plumaged in shades of red, brown, and gray
  - part of grouses
* come in two different color phases- red and gray.
* depend on the buds for winter food.
* find food in the youngest forest stages but winter in mature forests.
* occupy a wide range of habitats of Eurasia and North America.
* prefer denser forests and abandoned farms covered with brush.

### activity | game | game bird | grouse:

Male grouse
* add rhythm to the symphony of spring.
* are true homebodies.

Prairie chicken
* Some prairie chickens perch in aspen trees
* are famous for their spring mating displays
  - grassland birds
* can fly like ducks.
* eat insects like grasshoppers, ants, and leafhoppers
  - tender leaves, seeds, sedges, insects and berries
* live in tall grass coastal prairie.
* require large expanses of open grassland.

Ptarmigan
* are browner.
* change color twice a year.
* contain mouth-watering meat that makes for a great meal.
* feed on the buds of willow and hea ther
  - and heather
* spend much of their time under an insulating blanket of snow.

### activity | game | game bird | grouse:

Sage grouse
* are North America's largest grouse, with adult males weighing up to eight pounds
  - a popular game bird
* are big birds, with some males approaching eight pounds
  - extremely sensitive to changes in their environment
  - highly selective grazers, choosing only a few plant genera
* are the largest of North American grouse and are sexually dimorphic
  - most abundant upland game bird
* have one of the lowest recruitment rates of any upland game bird in North America.
* occur year around.

Quail
- extremely popular game birds
  - part of quails
* chicks use calls to communicate with each other and their mother from inside their eggs.
* destroy injurious insects and seeds of weeds, upon which they largely feed.
* eat seeds, berries and insects.
* have an uncanny sense of their surroundings, and are masters at eluding predators
  - their own home security system
* scratch poorly and are impeded by extremely dense vegetation.

### activity | game | game bird | quail:

Bobwhite
* are a social bird forming groups in the fall called coveys
  - native year-round residents, while woodcock are migratory
  - primarily seedeaters, using both weed seed and waste grains
  - social birds
* build their nests on the ground, and therefore require thick cover for concealment.
* feed on insects and weed seeds.
* roost in a circle to fight off the winter chill.
* take dust baths to get rid of parasites.

Game fishing
* big business worldwide.
* involves dragging baited hooks or lures of various configurations behind boats
  - the charter of a big game boat and skipper
* remains the major fishing industry today.