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Lietuvos tautinis olimpinis komitetas
Lietuvos tautinis olimpinis komitetas (LTOK, LNOC), Lithuania's National Olympic Committee: founded 1937, restored 1988, IOC-recognized 1991, returned to the 1992 Games; led by Daina Gudzinevičiūtė since 2012.
Lievin Lerno
Liévin Lerno, Belgian road cyclist (born October 1927 in Lokeren, died 28 March 2017), 1948 London Olympian: DNF in the individual road race but credited with the team gold; professional 1949-1954 for Garin-Wolber and Groene Leeuw.
Lievre
Lievre (Lièvre) is a traditional French two-player blockade board game from the early twentieth century: one hare against three dogs, who win by blocking the hare's movement on a circular board.
Life (video games)
Life (video games) covers the lives mechanic, the limited chances before a game session ends, from arcade Pac-Man to Candy Crush timers, plus whole-life games, life sims, Conway's Game of Life, and The Game of Life adaptations.
Life Is Strange
Life Is Strange (2015) is Dontnod Entertainment's five-episode narrative adventure published by Square Enix, following Max Caulfield's time-rewind power, Chloe Price, and the Rachel Amber mystery in Arcadia Bay; it won the 2016 BAFTA for Story and spawned a franchise.
Life Is Strange (video game)
Life Is Strange: 2015 five-episode Dontnod/Square Enix narrative adventure; Max Caulfield rewinds time in Arcadia Bay; ends in Sacrifice Chloe vs Sacrifice Arcadia Bay (52/48 split); 3 million sold; sequel Double Exposure 2024.
Life Is Strange 2
Life Is Strange 2: Dontnod's five-episode 2018-2019 narrative adventure (Square Enix) following Sean and Daniel Diaz fleeing Seattle for Puerto Lobos, Mexico, with Daniel's telekinesis shaped by Sean's choices.
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm
Life Is Strange: Before the Storm is a 2017 three-episode Deck Nine prequel to Life Is Strange, following 16-year-old Chloe Price and Rachel Amber in Arcadia Bay, with Backtalk dialogue challenges instead of time rewind.
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure (ライフ イズ ストレンジ ダブルエクスポージャー) is a 2024 Deck Nine/Square Enix narrative adventure sequel starring Max Caulfield at Caledon University, who shifts between two timelines after Safi's murder; Metacritic 74.
Life Is Strange: Reunion
Life Is Strange: Reunion (2026) is a Deck Nine/Square Enix narrative adventure, sequel to Double Exposure and finale of the Max and Chloe saga, released March 26, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, with Max's Rewind and Chloe's Backtalk.
Life Is Strange: True Colors
Life Is Strange: True Colors is a 2021 Deck Nine/Square Enix narrative adventure starring Alex Chen, an empath who reads and manipulates emotions in Haven Springs, Colorado; first mainline entry not by Dontnod, released all five chapters at once.
Life simulation game
A life simulation game, also called an artificial life game, is a video game genre where players manage characters' daily lives, usually without defined goals.
Lifesaving (sport)
Life saving (lifesaving sport) is competitive aquatic rescue sport governed by the International Life Saving Federation, with pool, beach, ocean, SERC, surf boat, and IRB events, biennial Lifesaving World Championships since 1994, and World Games inclusion since 1985.
Lifeweaver
Lifeweaver (Niran PruksaManee) is a Thai support hero added to Overwatch 2 on April 11, 2023; first openly pansexual hero, inventor of biolight, fugitive from Vishkar, with Life Grip and Tree of Life.
Lift ticket
A lift ticket, also called a lift pass or ski pass, grants a skier access to a resort's lifts for a day, several days, or a season.
Liga 1 (Indonesia)
Liga 1, Indonesia's top professional football league launched in 2017 and run by PT Liga Indonesia Baru under PSSI, an 18-club double round-robin renamed BRI Super League in 2025/26, marked by the 2022 Kanjuruhan disaster.
Liga 1 (Peru)
Liga 1 (Liga1 Te Apuesto) is Peru's top professional football division, organized by the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Peruana: 18 clubs, Apertura and Clausura format, 34 matchdays, two relegated, seven foreign players, autonomous from the FPF since 2026.
Liga ACB
Liga ACB (Liga Endesa), Spain's top professional men's basketball league, run by the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto founded 3 March 1982; first season 1983-84, replacing the 1957 Liga Nacional, with a regular season plus top-eight playoff and two relegated clubs.
Liga I
Liga I, Romania's top football division since 2006-07 (formerly Divizia A, now Superliga României), run by FRF and LPF; 16 teams, play-off/play-out split, champion to Champions League.
Liga MX
Liga MX, Mexico's top professional football league since 1943, runs 18 clubs in Apertura and Clausura short tournaments with a liguilla; promotion and relegation have been suspended since 2020.
Liga MX Femenil
Liga MX Femenil (Liga Femenil BBVA from 2026), Mexico's top professional women's football league, founded 2017, 18 clubs tied to men's Liga MX teams, Apertura and Clausura format, second-highest women's attendance worldwide in 2021-22.
Liga Nusantara
Liga Nusantara (formerly Liga 3, 2017-2024; PNM Liga Nusantara) is Indonesia's third-tier semi-professional football league, run by I.League since 2024/25; RANS Nusantara FC won 2025/26, and 24 clubs in three geographic groups contest 2026/27 with promotion to the Championship.
Liga Portugal 2
Liga Portugal 2, also known as Segunda Liga or Liga de Honra, is the second tier of Portuguese professional football, organized by Liga Portugal and known as a nursery of talent.
Light as a feather, stiff as a board
Light as a feather, stiff as a board, also called the levitation game or finger lift, is a sleepover ritual in which a group lifts a person with one or two fingers each while chanting; it works through weight distribution and synchronized timing, documented as early as 1665 and depicted in The Craft (1996).
Light heavyweight
Light heavyweight is boxing's 175-pound (79.4 kg) weight class, one of the eight traditional divisions, created in 1903 for Jack Root; unified champion Dmitrii Bivol holds the IBF, WBO, and Ring titles.
Light middleweight
Light middleweight (junior middleweight, super welterweight) is boxing's 154-pound (69.9 kg) division between welterweight and middleweight; created by the 1920 Walker Law, re-established in 1962, with IBA amateur equivalent 67–71 kg.
Light No Fire
Light No Fire is an unreleased open-world survival game by Hello Games, announced at The Game Awards 2023, set on a procedurally generated fantasy planet the size of Earth with multiplayer exploration, building, and dragons; no release date announced.
Light welterweight
Light welterweight (junior welterweight, super lightweight) is a professional boxing division with a 140 lb (63.5 kg) limit, created by the 1920 Walker Law, first champion Pinky Mitchell in 1922.
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (ライトニング リターンズ) is Square Enix's 2013 action RPG concluding the FFXIII saga; Lightning alone fights with a Schemata system under a 13-day doomsday clock, on PS3, Xbox 360, and Steam.
Lights Out
Lights Out is a 1995 Tiger Electronics 5×5 handheld toggle puzzle (earlier XL-25, 1983) where pressing a button flips it and its orthogonal neighbors; solvable via GF(2) linear algebra, with only a quarter of configurations solvable.