Traditional sports and games cultivate local and regional customs strengthen the sense of national belongings. Locally or regionally rooted traditional games encourage exchange between district and regions and preserve a sense of cultural identity by providing marks of roots and reference. In this paper the author overview the extant traditional sports and games spread in the Tamil Nadu rural and urban places. The author brings out the procedure of play (rules and regulation) with scoring methods, type of games, and purpose of play of traditional indigenous games. All most the data were collected from the rural and urban people of 32 districts in Tamil Nadu, India. The researcher was divided into five regions of Tamil Nadu and the data collected from people who are played and come across in their lifestyle of traditional games. The methods used for collecting data by through interview, photos and live play demo. Totally 62 extant traditional sports are evaluated from the Tamil Nadu state, India. And found that, traditional sports and games played in the different regions in Tamil Nadu. This study concluded that, the traditional sports almost playing in the all over Tamil Nadu, it carries moral value and cultural heritage and develops the integrity among the people.
