Paintball is a fun activity and one that can get quite addictive and very competitive. It's great to play with a group of friends or quite often workplaces will play Paintball as team building exercises. So just what is Paintball and how do you play. Well find out more at this hub.

The sport of Paintball involves players eliminating opponents from play by hitting them with paint filled, breakable, gelatin paintballs shot from a carbon dioxide or compressed air powered "paintball marker".

All sorts of people play paintball, and the Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association estimates that 5 million people play the game in the United States annually, with 1.9 million playing at least 15 times a year. Insurance statistics show that paintball is one of the safest sports, with fewer injuries per exposure than sports like tennis, golf, and bowling.

Paintball can be played either indoors or outdoors and take various forms, of which some of the most popular are woodsball, scenario, X-Ball and speedball. Rules for playing paintball vary widely, with most designed to ensure that participants enjoy the sport in a safe environment. The sport requires a significant amount of equipment.

In a basic game of Paintball two opposing teams seek to eliminate all of the other team's players or to complete some other objective, such as retrieving a flag, eliminating a specific player, or other paintball variations. Depending on the style of paintball played, a paintball game can last from seconds to days, although typical woodsball games are five to thirty minutes long.