Lacrosse is a full contact team sport that is played using a small ball and long handled rackets with loose netted pockets called lacrosse sticks or crosses.
Offensively the object of the game is to use the crosse to scoop, catch, carry and pass the ball in an effort to score by ultimately throwing the ball into an opponents goal.
Defensively the object is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact.
There are two main versions of the game; outdoor or field lacrosse and indoor or box lacrosse. The two versions of the sport differ in that field lacrosse is played with ten players to a side on a field roughly the size of a soccer pitch while box lacrosse is played with six players per side in an enclosure similar in size and shape to that of an ice hockey rink.
Source: Weekipedia
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