Question: What is the most popular sport played in australia?

Disambiguated questions and answers:
context: Historically, rugby league and rugby union football codes have been more popular than Australian rules football in New South Wales and Queensland, whereas Australian rules football has been more popular in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, North Territory and Western Australia.
question: What is the most popular spectator sport played in New South Wales and Queensland, australia?
short_answers: rugby league and rugby union football codes
wikipage: Sport in Australia

context: Historically, rugby league and rugby union football codes have been more popular than Australian rules football in New South Wales and Queensland, whereas Australian rules football has been more popular in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, North Territory and Western Australia.
question: What is the most popular spectator sport played in New South Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, North Territory, and Western Australia?
short_answers: Australian rules football
wikipage: Sport in Australia

context: The highest rates of participation for Australian sport and recreation are informal, non-organised sports with bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter topping the list of activities for children, with 66% of all boys bike riding and 55.9% of all boys skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter in 2009 and 2010. Girls also participated in these activities at high rates with 54.4% of them doing bike riding and 42.4% skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter. Other sports popular for Australian girls include dancing, which had 26.3% participation, swimming with 19.8% participation and netball at 17%. For boys, the other popular sports for participation included soccer with a rate of participation of 19.9%, swimming with a participation rate of 17.2%, Australian rules at 16%.
question: What is the most popular non-organized sport in australia for children?
short_answers: bike riding
wikipage: Sport in Australia

context: Participation rates for adults in Australia were much lower than that of Australian children. For adult women in Australia, the number one sport activity they participate in is walking with 30% having done this in 2009 and 2010. The second most popular form of exercise and sport was Aerobics/fitness/gym with a rate of 16.7%. The third most popular for adult women was swimming and diving with 8.4%. For men, the most popular sport activity was also walking with a participation rate of 15.6%. This was followed by Aerobics/fitness/gym with 11.2%. The third most popular sport for adult males was cycling/BMXing with a participation rate of 8.2%.
question: What is the most popular sport activity in australia for adult men?
short_answers: Walking
wikipage: Sport in Australia

context: Participation rates for adults in Australia were much lower than that of Australian children. For adult women in Australia, the number one sport activity they participate in is walking with 30% having done this in 2009 and 2010. The second most popular form of exercise and sport was Aerobics/fitness/gym with a rate of 16.7%. The third most popular for adult women was swimming and diving with 8.4%. For men, the most popular sport activity was also walking with a participation rate of 15.6%. This was followed by Aerobics/fitness/gym with 11.2%. The third most popular sport for adult males was cycling/BMXing with a participation rate of 8.2%.
question: What is the most popular sport activity in australia for adult women?
short_answers: Walking
wikipage: Sport in Australia

context: Sport came to Australia in 1810 when the first athletics tournament was held; soon after cricket, horse racing and sailing clubs and competitions started. Australia's lower classes would play sports on public holidays, with the upper classes playing more regularly on Saturdays. Sydney was the early hub of sport in the colony. Early forms of football were played there by 1829. Early sport in Australia was played along class lines. In 1835, the British Parliament banned blood sports except fox hunting in a law that was implemented in Australia; this was not taken well in the country as it was seen as an attack on the working classes. By the late 1830s, horse racing was established in New South Wales and other parts of the country, and enjoyed support across class lines. Gambling was part of sport from the time horse racing became an established sport in the colony. Horse racing was also happening in Melbourne at Batman's Hill in 1838, with the first race meeting in Victoria taking place in 1840. Cricket was also underway with the Melbourne Cricket Club founded in 1838. Sport was being used during the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s as a form of social integration across classes. Victorian rules football (later known as Australian rules) was codified in 1859. Australian football clubs still around in the current Australian Football League were founded by 1858. The Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia's largest sporting arena, opened in 1853. The Melbourne Cup was first run in 1861. A rugby union team was established at the University of Sydney in 1864. Regular sport did not begin to be played in South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia until the late 1860s and early 1870s.
question: What is the most popular sport to play in australia?
short_answers: Cricket
wikipage: Sport in Australia

Long answers:
long_answer: There are a lot of popular sports in Australia. As a whole, the most popular sport to play in Australia is Cricket. Historically, rugby league and rugby union football codes have been more popular than Australian rules football in New South Wales and Queensland, whereas Australian rules football has been more popular in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, North Territory and Western Australia. The highest rates of participation for Australian sport and recreation are informal, non-organised sports with bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading or riding a scooter topping the list of activities for children. For adult women in Australia, the number one sport activity they participate in is walking with 30% having done this in 2009 and 2010. For men, the most popular sport activity was also walking with a participation rate of 15.6%.