Men Playing With/Against Women In Sports

@HootyTheNightOwl if you have a female who can bet a ball just as good as a male they are not physically tackling each other but they do get the running. Golfing, and skiing, auto racing, and other such none physical sports could be fair to be mixed teams. Basketball, football, boxing, soccer, rugby, and physical combatives sports, cycling, relay races, etc which require strength is a bit lopsided, even for exercise.

@Charity I went to high school with a girl who spent 5 years going out into the sports field every September and playing soccer with two classes of boys aged between 11 and 16... she survived. I'm not sure how she got permission to go play with the boys, but she was the only one out there.

There are lots of sports that you could easily play with a mixed class of children. Javelin, shotput, discus, high jump, gymnastics, dodgeball, baseball, swimming, track, golf, badminton, ice skating, boules, skittles, tennis, hiking, cycling, table tennis (ping pong), relay. That's just to name a few off the top of my head.

I guess that we are just made of stronger stuff over here in England because we actually had some of the "dangerous" sports in our school curriculum and we did them and lived to tell the tale.

School sports day, we ran a mixed relay, with 2 boys and 2 girls per team. We felt the sting of a half flat ball thrown hard enough to hurt for quite a while afterwards (I'd still go back and spend another hour playing dodgeball with those children as 40yo adults now, if I could). We made our memories and we survived.

Hardly anyone seemed to care in the late 90's that girls might get hurt by boys throwing balls at them or that we weren't built to run like the boys were... it was all about participating and having fun.