Schaffhausen, Switzerland 30 March 2024 - 7 April 2024 Schaffhausen, Switzerland The LGT World Men's Curling Championship is for 13 men's teams that qualify via the Pan Continental and European championships.

The list of countries includes Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Japan, Spain, Russia and United States etc. The participant nations are often called as curlers. Canada is the country, where world's 90% of the curling people live.

Curling is a team sport, played on ice, where two teams take it in turns to slide stones made of granite towards a target – known as a House. It is an Olympic and Paralympic winter sport with medal disciplines for Women's, Men's, Mixed Doubles and mixed Wheelchair teams.

The rocks are called stones, and the bumpy ice is a curling sheet. The circular target players aim for is the house, and wherever the stone stops determines the score. Why is it called curling? Players can curve, or curl, the stone toward the target or around other stones.

team sport Curling is a team sport, played on ice, where two teams take it in turns to slide stones made of granite towards a target – known as a House. It is an Olympic and Paralympic winter sport with medal disciplines for Women's, Men's, Mixed Doubles and mixed Wheelchair teams.

Right sweeping a rock down the ice for more than 10 seconds. You'll find the burning sensation in your muscles. If you are sleeping I guarantee you to be working up a sweat.

The purpose of a game is to score points by getting stones closer to the house centre, or the "button", than the other team's stones. Players from either team alternate in taking shots from the far side of the sheet. An end is complete when all eight rocks from each team have been delivered, a total of sixteen stones.

Curling is a team sport, played on ice, where two teams take it in turns to slide stones made of granite towards a target – known as a House. It is an Olympic and Paralympic winter sport with medal disciplines for Women's, Men's, Mixed Doubles and mixed Wheelchair teams.

Curling is a team sport played by two teams of four players on a rectangular sheet of ice. Its nickname, "the roaring game", originates from the rumbling sound the 44-pound (19.96kg) granite stones make when they travel across the ice.

Curling is a team sport, played on ice, where two teams take it in turns to slide stones made of granite towards a target – known as a House. It is an Olympic and Paralympic winter sport with medal disciplines for Women's, Men's, Mixed Doubles and mixed Wheelchair teams.

Curling stones are made from a unique granite only found in two quarries in the world: the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig and the Trefor Granite Quarry in Wales. These quarries produce a unique shatter-resistant granite that is shaped and polished into curling stones that can last for decades.

7 Fascinating Facts About Curling, The Oddest Sport At The Winter Olympics

• It's One Of The World's Oldest Team Sports.
• The First Official Rulebook Dates Back 180 Years.
• It Only Rejoined The Olympics Recently.
• The U.S. Only Has One Curling Medal.
• Curling Stones Are Made With A Rare Granite.
• Curling Has Its Own Vocabulary.

Curling features two teams of four players sliding a large, granite stone on a rectangular sheet of ice. The goal is to deliver the stone from one side of the sheet to the circular scoring area on the other side, called the house. The closer to the center of the house, known as the button, the better.