Pictures: The weirdest places to play sport ever!
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A crew of scientists took a break from their busy work in the Arctic to play football on a massive sheet of ice! It got us thinking about other unusual places to play sport...
Here's another weird game of footie... a bit of a soggy one. This is river football, where you play a football match, well, in a river of course! The people of the village of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire do this every August. Hope the ball doesn't float away!
If you're afraid of heights you'd best look away now. Back in 2005, tennis legends Roger Federer and Andre Agassi had a friendly knock-about with a difference. This unusual match took place at the top of of a helipad towering over 200 metres above Dubai, UAE.
After the game Agassi peered over the edge while Federer smashed a tennis ball into the sea. Look out below, dolphins!
I wonder if any sea life popped up to watch this one? It's a basketball match on the USS Midway aircraft carrier. The game took place in the Pacific Ocean back in 2012. The teams had to battle against high winds but Syracuse Orange took the win beating San Diego State 62-49. It gives a whole new meaning to the term slam-DUNK.
It's underground cricket next. Of course it is! Players from two village teams played the one-off match at Honister Slate Mine deep inside a Lake District mountain in 2013. The pitch was 600 metres inside the mine, the bails were pieces of slate and the wicket was a mesh mat. Owzat!
Here's a pic from the World Ice Golf Championships. Yes that really is a thing! It's been running every year since 1997 in Greenland and temperatures can drop as low as minus 50 degrees. Brrrr!
But this place definitely wins the most respect for a weird place to play sport - the Moon! Astronaut Alan Shepard is said to have smuggled a makeshift golf-club on board the Apollo 14. He hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first - and only - person to play golf anywhere other than Earth. Talk about out-of-this-world!