What is curling and how do you score?

It's much like shuffleboard, but on ice. Two teams have large, smooth, rounded stones with different-colored handles, which they roll down the ice to try to get to a target area. Using strategy, a team usually does not simply aim all its stones for the center of the target, but will also set up stones to serve as obstacles to the other team so that they can't roll their stone into yours and knock your stone out of the target area. If there IS a stone in the way, a curler can give a slight spin to the handle, causing the stone to spin and "curl" or curve around a stone that's in the way. A stone is not thrown by muscles in the hand or arm. The entire body is crouched over the ice, and the curler pushes off a raised area (much like a starting block) and begins to glide across the ice, at the speed desired. At a certain point, the curler simply releases the stone, usually with a slight spin, but almost never with a push. Balance, coordination, aim, control, and thigh muscles are involved. Once the stone leaves the curler's hand, the "skip" or leader of the team may indicate that the stone needs some help reaching its destination. Two "sweepers" will come out with specialized brooms (originally and in casual games, any household broom could actually be used) and sweep back and forth VERY quickly in front of the stone in the path they want the stone to take. What they are doing is sweeping away the little raised bumps of ice that act as a bit of friction if not swept away. The stone will want to follow the path of least friction, and will also go farther along a path of less friction. Sweeping requires quick reflexes, periferal vision (so you don't trip over stones you're passing by), arm muscles, some stomach muscles and leg muscles, and a lot of energy. The different teams each have eight times to roll a set of stones. At the end of each time (time = inning in baseball or "end" in curling), not every stone left in the target gets a point. Only the team with the stone closest to the center gets to score any points at all. The one stone closest to the center gets one point, and then that same team gets one more point only for every stone that is between the center stone and the opponent's closest stone. Although I say above that energy and muscles are required, that is for play on higher levels. There are leagues for senior citizens, children, and beginner adults, and they all are very much able to enjoy the sport. (Those who cannot bend and glide to release the stone, such as those with bad knees, can actually roll the stone using a specially designed stick. This would not be allowed in the Olympics, but many casual leagues allow it during play. One of the appeals of curling is that almost anyone can do it, and that it is a very social sport. Casual curlers usually talk and joke around during play, and there is almost always a club house for drinks, food, and talk afterward. There are one-gender leagues as well as mixed leagues, so husbands and wives (girlfriends and boyfriends) can have a hobby to do together. Some people get mad that it is called a sport and is in the Olympics. My own opinion is that IF you call shuffleboard or ping pong or bowling a sport, then curling is a sport. It is certainly not as demanding as the other sports shown on the Olympics. I don't know why it was put there, but I think it's good because it introduces the sport to those who would not have known about it otherwise. It's really not important if you call it a sport or just a pass-time (pastime, pasttime?). If you like it, you like it; if you don't, you don't - just like any other hobby. Possibly it was allowed as an Olympic sport because at that level, a lot of mental and physical skill is involved. As with figure skating, it looks easier than it is. But yes, not as hard as figure skating or snowboarding or just about anything else in the Olympics, according to me.

Curling should not be a sport. its idiotic. Sorry this doesn't answer ur question but i have no clue how to play the game. Be that as it may, i have a better question? Why is it in the Olympics?