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🇰🇬 Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan and 2 moreWorld Nomad GamesДүйнөлүк көчмөндөр оюндары A two-yearly contest of Central Asian nomadic sports, first staged in Kyrgyzstan in 2014Game

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan and 1 moreKyz kuu A horse racing game where a man chases a woman to win a kiss or faces her whip if he fails.Game

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan and 6 moreKurashкөрәш Central Asian traditional upright folk wrestling using cloth belts or towelsGame

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

World Nomad Games: Save the Dream, CC BY 2.0, source
Kurash: IlshatS, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Kyz kuu: SSGT JEREMY T. LOCK, Public domain, source

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