Polo is a team game played on a field with one goal for each team. Each team has three (enclosed arena) and four players.

Polo features successive periods called "chukkas", and riders score by driving a ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.

In this it is similar to many team sports such as football and field hockey. The main difference is that the players play on horseback, which is not a easy job.

The polo game is played on a much larger surface with dimension of 160 yards wide (boarded) and 300 yards long, which makes it ten times the size of an official arena or ten football fields.

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Arena boards encompass the arena and are normally six feet high, whereas Outdoor, the boards are only eleven inches in height.

Both applications assist in keeping the ball in play. There are other differences such as there are four players Outdoor and three players in the Arena.

The Outdoor ball is made of plastic or wood and is 3" to 3 ½" in diameter. The arena ball should not be less than 4" to 6" in diameter.

In the Outdoor Game, after each score, the scoring team changes goals and in the Arena Game, the team changes after each chukker.

One of the major differences of the Outdoor Game is that the element of danger increases because of the increase in speed and the requirement to be more proficient as a horseman.

More horses are required in that a normal Outdoor Game consists of six chukkers vs four chukkers in the Arena.