Curling is generally considered to be around 480–500 years old, with documented roots going back to the early 1500s in Scotland and nearby parts of northern Europe.

How old is curling, really?

Historians trace organized curling back to at least the early 16th century, when records and descriptions of people sliding stones over frozen ponds appear in Scotland. Because those early mentions are already fairly detailed, the game itself was probably evolving in some form even earlier in the late Middle Ages.

If you take 1540-ish as a reasonable benchmark starting point, that makes curling roughly 485 years old as of the mid‑2020s. That long history is why it is often described as one of the world’s oldest team sports.

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