Whois & Analysis for academy.com

Academy Sports + Outdoors is an American sporting goods discount store chain.

Academy carries an extensive line of name-brand equipment and clothing and shoes for competitive sports, physical fitness training, and outdoor recreational activities such as camping, hunting, fishing, and boating.

Academy's company headquarters are located in Katy, Texas, outside Houston.

Clothing (also called clothes and attire) is fiber and textile material worn on the body.

The wearing of clothing is mostly restricted to human beings and is a feature of nearly all human societies.

The amount and type of clothing worn depends on body type, social, and geographic considerations.

Some clothing types can be gender-specific.

Sports equipment, called sporting goods where sold, is any object used for sport or exercise.

Examples are listed below.

Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which originally serves to purpose of protection against adversities of the environment, usually regarding ground textures and temperature.

Footwear in the manner of shoes therefore primarily serves the purpose to ease the locomotion and prevent injuries.

Secondly footwear can also be used for fashion and adornment as well as to indicate the status or rank of the person within a social structure.

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

Fish are normally caught in the wild.

Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping.

Fishing may include catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales where the term whaling is more appropriate.