The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sports:

Sport

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

– a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively, sports can be played on land, in water and in the air.

Types of sports

• Amateur sports
  Amateur sports
  Amateur sports are sports in which participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration. Sporting amateurism was a zealously guarded ideal in the 19th century, especially among the upper classes, but faced steady erosion throughout the 20th century with the continuing growth of pro sports...
  
  
• Athletic sports
  Athletic sports
  Athletics is a term encompassing the human competitive sports and games requiring physical skill, and the systems of training that prepare athletes for competition performance. Athletic sports or contests, are competitions which are primarily based on human, physical competition, demanding the...
  
  
• Blood sport
  Blood sport
  Bloodsport or blood sport is any sport or entertainment that involves violence against animals.Bloodsport includes coursing or beagling, combat sports such as cockfighting and dog fighting, or other activities...
  
  
• Demonstration sport
  Demonstration sport
  A demonstration sport is a sport which is played to promote itself, most commonly during the Olympic Games, but also at other sporting events.Demonstration sports were officially introduced in 1912 Summer Olympics, when Sweden decided to include glima, traditional Icelandic wrestling, in the...
  
  
• Disabled sports
  Disabled sports
  Disabled sports are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports...
  
  
• Extreme sports
• Fantasy sports
• Female sport
• Individual sport
  Individual sport
  -Examples:Examples of individual sports include:*Archery*Athletics*Bodybuilding*Badminton*Boomerang*Boxing*Chess*Croquet*Cycling*Darts*Equestrian*Fencing*Figure Skating*Golf*Gymnastics*Knife Throwing*Krav Maga*Judo*Lawn Bowls*Orienteering*Pilates...
  
  
• Professional sports
  Professional sports
  Professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, are sports in which athletes receive payment for their performance. Professional athleticism has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larger audiences, so that sports organizations...
  
  
• Spectator sport
  Spectator sport
  A spectator sport is a sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches. For instance, Tennis, Rugby, F-1, baseball, basketball, cricket, football , and ice hockey are spectator sports, while hunting or underwater hockey typically are not...
  
  
• Team sport
  Team sport
  A team sport includes any sport which involves players working together towards a shared objective. A team sport is an activity in which a group of individuals, on the same team, work together to accomplish an ultimate goal which is usually to win. This can be done in a number of ways such as...
  
  

Air sports

• Aerobatics
  Aerobatics
  Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in normal flight. Aerobatics are performed in airplanes and gliders for training, recreation, entertainment and sport...
  
  
  • Gliding aerobatics
• Air racing
  Air racing
  - History :The first ever air race was held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1908. The participants piloted the only 4 airships in the U.S. around a course located at Forest Park...
  
  
• Ballooning
  Hot air ballooning
  Hot air ballooning is the activity of flying hot air balloons. Attractive aspects of ballooning include the exceptional quiet , the lack of a feeling of movement, and the bird's-eye view...
  
  
  • Cluster ballooning
    Cluster ballooning
    Cluster ballooning is a form of ballooning where a harness attaches a balloonist to a cluster of helium-inflated rubber balloons.Unlike traditional hot-air balloons, where a single large balloon is equipped with vents enabling altitude control, cluster balloons are multiple, small, readily...
    
    
  • Hopper balloon
    Hopper balloon
    A hopper balloon is a small, one-person hot air balloon. Unlike a conventional hot air balloon where people ride inside a basket, there is no basket on a hopper balloon. Instead, the hopper pilot usually sits on a seat or wears a harness similar to a parachute harness. Hoppers are typically flown...
    
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• Gliding
  Gliding
  Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s...
  
  
• Hang gliding
  Hang gliding
  Hang gliding is an air sport in which a pilot flies a light and unmotorized foot-launchable aircraft called a hang glider ....
  
  
• Human powered aircraft
• Model aircraft
  Model aircraft
  Model aircraft are flying or non-flying models of existing or imaginary aircraft using a variety of materials including plastic, diecast metal, polystyrene, balsa wood, foam and fibreglass...
  
  
• Parachuting
  Parachuting
  Parachuting, also known as skydiving, is the action of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of a parachute. It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal...
  
  
  • Banzai skydiving
  • BASE jumping
    BASE jumping
    BASE jumping, also sometimes written as B.A.S.E jumping, is an activity that employs an initially packed parachute to jump from fixed objects...
    
    
  • Skysurfing
    Skysurfing
    Sky surfing is a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board attached to his or her feet and performs surfing-style aerobatics during freefall....
    
    
  • Wingsuit flying
    Wingsuit flying
    Wingsuit flying is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a wingsuit, which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift. Modern wingsuits, first developed in the late 1990s, create the surface area with fabric between the...
    
    
• Paragliding
  Paragliding
  Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure...
  
  

Archery

• Clout archery
  Clout archery
  Clout is a form of archery in which archers shoot arrows at a flag from a relatively long distance and score points depending on how close each arrow lands to the flag....
  
  
• Field archery
  Field archery
  Field archery involves shooting at targets of varying distance, often in woodland and rough terrain.One goal of field archery is to improve the techniques and abilities required for bowhunting in a more realistic outdoor setting...
  
  
• Flight archery
• Gungdo
  Gungdo
  The Korean Bow is a water buffalo horn-based composite reflex bow, standardized about 1900 AD from the variety of such weapons in earlier use...
  
  
• Kyūdō
  Kyudo
  , literally meaning "way of the bow", is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art and practitioners are known as .It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today....
  
  
• Popinjay (sport)
  Popinjay (sport)
  Also called "Pole Archery"Popinjay or Popingo is a shooting sport that can be performed with either rifles or archery equipment. The rifle form is a popular diversion in Denmark; a Scottish variant is also known...
  
  
• Target archery
  Target archery
  Modern competitive archery is governed by the World Archery Federation, abbreviated WA . Olympic rules are derived from WA rules. WA is the International Olympic Committee's recognized governing body for all of archery.Currently 142 nations are represented by WA archery governing bodies...
  
  

Ball over a net games

• Ball badminton
  Ball badminton
  Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the...
  
  
• Biribol
  Biribol
  Biribol is the name of a sport, which resembles an aquatic variation of Volleyball. It has originated in Brazil, in the city of Birigüi, in the 60's by Prof. Dario Miguel Pedro. It showed up as a group game and as an alternative to the practice and the learning of swimming...
  
  
• Bossaball
  Bossaball
  Bossaball is a sport invented in Spain by Filip Eyckmans who developed the concept between 2003 and 2005. It is similar to volleyball, but also includes elements of football , gymnastics and capoeira...
  
  
• Fistball
  Fistball
  Fistball is a sport which is of European origin and is similar to volleyball in that player tries to hit a ball over a net.-History:The earliest known written mention of the game is by Roman Emperor Gordian III and dates to the year 240. Rules for an Italian version of fistball were recorded by...
  
  
• Footbag net
  Footbag net
  Footbag net is a sport in which players kick a footbag over a five-foot-high net. Players may use only the feet. Any contact knee or above is a foul. The game is played individually and as doubles....
  
  
• Football tennis
• Footvolley
  Footvolley
  Footvolley is a sport which combines aspects of beach volleyball and football .-History:Footvolley was created in Brazil, by Octavio de Moraes, in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach as a means for football players to be able to touch the ball without violating the formal football ban at the...
  
  
• Hooverball
  Hooverball
  Hooverball is a medicine ball game invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician to help keep then-President Hoover fit. The Hoover Presidential Library Association and the city of West Branch, Iowa, co-host a national championship each year....
  
  
• Jianzi
  Jianzi
  Jiànzi , ti jian zi , ti jian or jiànqiú is a traditional Asian game in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their feet and other parts of the body...
  
  
• Newcomb ball
  Newcomb ball
  Newcomb ball 1 is a ball game played as a variation of volleyball....
  
  
• Peteca
  Peteca
  Peteca is a traditional sport in Brazil, played with a "hand shuttlecock" from indigenous origins and reputed to be as old as the country itself...
  
  
• Sepak takraw
  Sepak takraw
  Sepak takraw , or kick volleyball, is a sport native to the Malay-Thai Peninsula...
  
  
• Sipa
  Sipa
  Sipa is the Philippines' traditional native sport which predates Spanish rule. The game is related to Sepak Takraw. Similar games include Footbag net, Footvolley, Bossaball and Jianzi....
  
  
• Throwball
  Throwball
  Throwball is a non-contact ball sport played across a net between two teams of seven players on a rectangular court. Throwball is popular in Asia, especially on the Indian subcontinent, and was first played in India as a women's sport in Chennai during the 1940s. Like volleyball, the game's roots...
  
  
• Volleyball
  Volleyball
  Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
  
  
  • Beach volleyball
    Beach volleyball
    Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
    
    
  • Paralympic volleyball
    Paralympic volleyball
    Volleyball for disabled athletes entered the Paralympic Games as a "demonstration" sport for amputees in 1976 in Toronto Canada. In sitting volleyball, the net is about 3 feet high, and the court is 10 x 6 meters with a 2-meter attack line. Players are allowed to block serves, but one “cheek” must...
    
    

Basketball family

• Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
  
  • Beach basketball
    Beach basketball
    Beach Basketball is a modified version of basketball, played on beaches. It was invented in the USA by Philip Bryant.- USA :Beach basketball is played in a circular court with no backboard on the goal and no out-of-bounds rule, with the ball movement to be done via passes or 2½ steps, as dribbling...
    
    
  • Deaf basketball
    Deaf basketball
    Deaf basketball is basketball played by deaf people. Sign language is used to communicate whistle blows and communication between players.-National associations:...
    
    
  • FIBA 33
    FIBA 33
    FIBA 3x3 basketball is a formalized version of three-on-three basketball, a form of the game initially developed on inner-city asphalt outdoor courts in the United States. With over 250 million players worldwide and among the most played recreational sports in the world, 3x3 will become a key motor...
    
    
  • Streetball
    Streetball
    Streetball or street basketball is a variation of the sport of basketball, typically played on outdoor courts and featuring significantly less by way of formal structure and enforcement of the game's rules...
    
    
  • Water basketball
    Water basketball
    Water basketball is a water sport which mixes the rules of basketball and water polo. Developed and promoted by Italian teacher Francesco Rizzuto in 1986, it is played in a swimming pool...
    
    
  • Wheelchair basketball
    Wheelchair basketball
    Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people in wheelchairs and is considered one of the major disabled sports practiced. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee as the sole...
    
    
• Bounceball
• Korfball
  Korfball
  Korfball is a mixed gender team sport, with similarities to netball and basketball. A team consists of eight players; four female and four male. A team also includes a coach. It was founded in the Netherlands in 1902 by Nico Broekhuysen. In the Netherlands there are around 580 clubs, and over a...
  
  
• Netball
  Netball
  Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
  
  
  • Fastnet
    Fastnet (netball)
    Fastnet is a variation of netball featuring shortened games and goals worth multiple points. The new format was announced by the International Federation of Netball Associations in 2008, and was primarily developed for a new international competition, the World Netball Series.- Background :In...
    
    
  • Indoor netball
    Indoor Netball
    Indoor netball is a variation of netball, played exclusively indoors, in which the playing court is surrounded on each side and overhead by a net. The net prevents the ball from leaving the court, reducing the number of playing stoppages. This gives indoor netball a faster pace than netball.There...
    
    
• Slamball
  Slamball
  Slamball is a form of basketball played with 4 trampolines in front of each net. It is played "full contact" and has boards around the court....
  
  

Bat-and-ball (Safe haven)

• Baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
   - four bases
• Bat-and-Trap
• British baseball
  British baseball
  British baseball, sometimes called Welsh baseball, or in the areas where it is popular simply baseball, is a bat-and-ball game played primarily in Wales and England. It is closely related to the game of rounders, and indeed emerged as a distinct sport when governing bodies in Wales and England...
  
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• Brännboll
  Brännboll
  Brännboll is a game similar to rounders, baseball, lapta and pesäpallo played on amateur level throughout Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany, mostly on fields and in public parks, but it is also part of the PE curriculum in some areas...
  
   - four bases
• Corkball
  Corkball
  Corkball is a "mini-baseball" game featuring a ball, which is stitched and resembles a baseball. The bat has a barrel that measures in diameter. Originally played on the streets and alleys of St. Louis, Missouri as early as 1890, today the game has leagues formed around the country as a result...
  
   - four bases (no base-running)
• Cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
   - two wickets
  • Indoor cricket
    Indoor cricket
    Indoor cricket is a variant of and shares many basic concepts with cricket. The game is most often played between two teams each consisting of eight players, in matches featuring two innings of sixteen 7-ball overs each...
    
    
  • Limited overs cricket
  • One Day International
  • Test cricket
    Test cricket
    Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
    
    
  • Twenty20
    Twenty20
    Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in England for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board , in 2003. A Twenty20 game involves two teams, each has a single innings, batting for a maximum of 20 overs. Twenty20 cricket is also known as T20 cricket...
    
    
• Danish longball
  Danish longball
  Danish Longball is a bat-and-ball game founded in Denmark. It is popular in British secondary schools, and is played recreationally by scouts and by the British Navy and Australian Navy. It is also a popular sport at U.S...
  
  
• Kickball
  Kickball
  Kickball is a playground game and competitive league game, similar to baseball, invented in the United States in the first half of the 20th Century. Kickball may also be known as kick baseball, base soccer, soccer-base, or soccer-baseball...
  
  
• Lapta
  Lapta (game)
  Lapta is a Russian bat and ball game first known to be played in the 14th century. Mentions of lapta have been found in medieval manuscripts, and balls and bats were found in the 14th-century layers during excavations in Novgorod...
  
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• The Massachusetts Game
  The Massachusetts Game
  The Massachusetts Game was a type of amateur club baseball popular in 19th century New England. It was an organized and codified version of local games called "base" or "round ball", and related to town ball and rounders. The Massachusetts Game is remembered as a rival of the New York Game of...
  
   – four bases
• Méta and longa méta (long méta) – Hungarian game
• Oina
  Oina
  Oină is a Romanian traditional sport, similar in many ways to baseball and lapta.-History:Oină was first mentioned during the rule of Vlaicu Vodă in 1364, when it spread all across Wallachia...
  
   – One (Two, Three, or Four)
• Old Cat
  Old Cat
  Old Cat games were 19th century bat-and-ball, safe haven games played in North America. The games were numbered according to the number of bases...
  
   – variable
• Over-the-line
  Over-the-line
  Over-the-line is a bat-and-ball sport, a game related to baseball and softball. Like those games, you have the batter, pitcher, and fielders. Because a game requires only three people per team, it's considerably easier to get a good informal game going. Equipment consists of a rope , an...
  
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• Pesäpallo
  Pesäpallo
  Pesäpallo is a fast-moving ball sport that is quite often referred to as the national sport of Finland and has some presence in other countries, such as Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, and Northern Ontario in Canada...
  
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• Podex
• Rounders
  Rounders
  Rounders is a game played between two teams of either gender. The game originated in England where it was played in Tudor times. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by...
  
   – four bases or posts
• Scrub baseball
  Scrub baseball
  Scrub baseball is a way of playing baseball with no teams. The number of players is variable, and score is not kept, as the idea is "each against all"...
  
   – four bases (not a team game per se)
• Softball
  Softball
  Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
  
   – four bases (descendant of Baseball)
  • Fast Pitch
  • Slow Pitch
  • Modified Pitch
  • 16 Inch
• Stickball
  Stickball
  Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game, played in large cities in the Northeastern United States, especially New York City. The equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball, typically a spaldeen, pensie pinkie, high bouncer or tennis ball. The...
  
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• Stool ball – two stools
• T-Ball
  Tee Ball
  Tee Ball or T-Ball is a sport based on baseball and is intended as an introduction for children to develop baseball skills and have fun. The name Tee Ball is a registered trademark while T-Ball is the generic name, although many sources use Tee Ball as a generic title.- Description :In T-Ball, the...
  
  
• Town ball
  Town ball
  The term town ball, or townball, describes the bat-and-ball, safe haven games played in North America in the 18th and 19th centuries, which were similar to rounders and were precursors to modern baseball. In some areas - such as Philadelphia and along the Ohio River and Mississippi River - the...
  
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• K-Ball
• Vigoro
  Vigoro
  Vigoro is a sport like both cricket and baseball and has been mainly played by women. It is most popular in Australia.-History:The game was invented by Englishman John George Grant...
  
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• Wireball
  Wireball
  Wireball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game, in urban areas of the United States. The equipment consists of a pimple or, pensie pinkie ball and a convenient place in a street or driveway where an electric power line or group of power lines bisect horizontally. ...
  
  
• Wiffleball
  Wiffleball
  Wiffle ball or wiffleball is a variation of the sport of baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas. The game is played using a perforated, light-weight, rubbery plastic ball and a long, plastic bat.- History :...
  
  

Board sports

Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.

• Skateboarding
  Skateboarding
  Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2002 report...
  
  
• Scootering
  • Casterboarding
  • Freeboard (skateboard)
    Freeboard (skateboard)
    A freeboard is kind of specialist skateboard designed to closely simulate the behavior of a snowboard.It has 6 wheels, two spring locked center wheels, and four slightly raised conventional wheels. The central axis wheels are able to turn freely in all directions, which allows the freeboard to...
    
    
  • Longboarding
    Longboarding
    Longboarding is the act of riding on a longboard.Longboarding is an offshoot of street skating, but, like all board sports, its roots lie in surfing. Developed as a single sport on the west coast in the 1950s, by the 1990s, Longboards and Skateboards branched off into their respective disciplines...
    
    
  • Streetboarding
• Skysurfing
  Skysurfing
  Sky surfing is a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board attached to his or her feet and performs surfing-style aerobatics during freefall....
  
  
• Streetluge
• Snowboarding
  Snowboarding
  Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
  
  
  • Mountainboarding
    Mountainboarding
    Mountainboarding, also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, Grass Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding , is a well established if little-known extreme sport, derived from snowboarding...
    
    
  • Sandboarding
    Sandboarding
    Sandboarding is a board sport similar to snowboarding.It is a recreational activity that takes place on sand dunes rather than snow-covered mountains....
    
    
  • Snowkiting
    Snowkiting
    Snowkiting is an outdoor winter sport where people use kite power to glide on snow or ice. The sport is similar to kitesurfing, but with the footwear used in snowboarding or skiing. In the early days of snowkiting, foil kites were the most common type; nowadays some kitesurfers use their water gear...
    
    
• Swing boarding
  Swing boarding
  Swing boarding is a physical activity that involves standing on a short board which is suspended from a frame which allows the board to swing freely. A typical structure is a playground swingset.-History:...
  
  
  • Wakesurfing
    Wakesurfing
    Wakesurfing is a water sport in which a surfer trails behind a wakeboard boat, surfing the boat's wake without being directly attached to the boat. The wake from the boat mimics the look and feel of an actual ocean wave...
    
    
  • Bodyboarding
    Bodyboarding
    Bodyboarding is a surface water sport . The average board consists of a small, rectangular piece of hydrodynamic foam, sometimes containing a ridged spine called a 'stringer'...
    
    
  • Riverboarding
    Riverboarding
    Riverboarding is a boardsport in which the participant lies prone on their board with fins on their feet for propulsion and steering. This sport is also known as hydrospeed in Europe and as riverboarding or white-water sledging in New Zealand, depending on the type of board used...
    
    
  • Skimboarding
    Skimboarding
    Skimboarding . is used to glide across the water's surface. Unlike surfing, skimboarding begins on the beach by dropping the board onto the thin wash of previous waves. Skimboarders use their momentum to 'skim' out to breaking waves, which they then catch back into shore in a manner similar to...
    
    
• Wakeboarding
  Wakeboarding
  Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques....
  
  
  • Kneeboarding

Boules

• Bocce
  Bocce
  Bocce is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire...
  
  
• Boccia
  Boccia
  Boccia is a traditional recreational sport, similar to bocce. The name Boccia is derived from the Latin word for boss – bottia. The sport is competed at national and international level, by athletes who require a wheelchair because of physical disability...
  
  
• Boßeln
• Boule lyonnaise
  Boule Lyonnaise
  Boule Lyonnaise is a popular French form of bowls, and may be the oldest of the French Boules sports....
  
  
• Bowls
  Bowls
  Bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll slightly asymmetric balls so that they stop close to a smaller "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a pitch which may be flat or convex or uneven...
  
  
• Curling
  Curling
  Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
  
  
• Klootschieten
  Klootschieten
  Klootschieten is a sport in the Netherlands and East Frisia, Germany. In the game, participants try to throw a ball as far as they can...
  
  
• Pétanque
  Pétanque
  Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing inside a starting circle with both feet on the ground, to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet or jack. It is also sometimes called a bouchon or le petit...
  
  
• Shuffleboard
  Shuffleboard
  Shuffleboard, more precisely deck shuffleboard, and also known as shuffle-board, shovelboard, shovel-board and shove-board [archaic], is a game in which players use broom-shaped paddles to push weighted pucks, sending them gliding down a narrow and elongated court, with the purpose of...
  
  
• Varpa
  Varpa
  Varpa is an old outdoor game. The game dates back to the Viking Age and survived in Gotland together with several other medieval or Viking games....
  
  

Bowling

• Candlepin bowling
  Candlepin bowling
  Candlepin bowling is a variation of Bowling that is played primarily in the Canadian Maritime provinces, Ontario, Quebec, and the New England states of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, where it is more common than ten-pin bowling....
  
  
• Duckpin bowling
  Duckpin bowling
  Duckpin bowling is a variation of 10-pin bowling. The balls used in duckpin bowling are 4-3/4 in to 5 in in diameter , weigh 3 lb 6 oz to 3 lb 12 oz each, and lack finger holes...
  
  
• Five-pin bowling
  Five-pin bowling
  Five-pin bowling is a bowling variant which is played only in Canada, where most bowling alleys offer it, either alone or in combination with ten-pin bowling. It was devised around 1909 by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto, Ontario, at his Toronto Bowling Club, in response to customers who complained that...
  
  
• Skittles (sport)
  Skittles (sport)
  Skittles is an old European lawn game, a variety of bowling, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the United States, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom, the game remains a popular pub game in England and Wales, though it tends to be...
  
  
• Ten-pin bowling
  Ten-pin bowling
  Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
  
  

Catch games

• Curby
• Dodgeball
  Dodgeball
  Dodgeball is any of a variety of games in which players try to hit other players on the opposing team with balls while avoiding being hit themselves. This article is about a well-known form of team sport with modified rules that is often played in physical education classes and has been featured...
  
  
• Ga-ga
  Ga-ga
  Ga-ga is a form of dodgeball.Ga-ga can be a large group of people playing individually, a group of people working as a team against another team, or even one-on-one matches....
  
  
• Keep Away
  Keep Away
  Keep Away, also called Monkey in the Middle, Piggy in the Middle, Pickle in a Dish, or Pickle in the Middle, is a children's game in which two or more players must pass a ball to one another, while a player in the middle attempts to intercept it...
  
  
• Kin-Ball
  Kin-Ball
  Kin-Ball, also known as Omnikin, is a team sport created in Quebec, Canada in 1986 by Mario Demers, a physical education professor. The International Kin-Ball Federation counts 3.8 million participants, primarily from Canada, the U.S., Japan, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Denmark...
  
  
• Prisoner Ball
• Rundown
  Rundown
  A rundown, also called a pickle, is a situation in the game of baseball that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two bases and is in jeopardy. When the base runner attempts to advance to the next base, he is cut off by the defensive player who has a live ball and attempts to return to...
  
   (aka Pickle)
• Yukigassen
  Yukigassen
  is a snowball fighting-competition from Japan. Today there are annual tournaments in Sobetsu, Hokkaidō in Japan, Kemijärvi in Finland, Vardø in Norway, Mount Buller, Victoria in Australia, Luleå in Sweden, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada....
  
  

Climbing

• Rock Climbing
  Rock Climbing
  Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...
  
  
  • Sport climbing
    Sport climbing
    Sport climbing is a form of rock climbing that relies on permanent anchors fixed to the rock, and possibly bolts, for protection,...
    
    
• Abseiling
  Abseiling
  Abseiling , rappelling in American English, is the controlled descent down a rock face using a rope; climbers use this technique when a cliff or slope is too steep and/or dangerous to descend without protection.- Slang terms :...
  
  
• Bouldering
  Bouldering
  Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs over a crash pad so that a fall will not result in serious injury. It is typically practiced on large natural boulders or artificial boulders in gyms and outdoor urban areas...
  
  
• Canyoning
  Canyoning
  Canyoning is traveling in canyons using a variety of techniques that may include other outdoor activities such as walking, scrambling, climbing, jumping, abseiling, and/or swimming....
  
   (Canyoneering)
• Mountaineering
  Mountaineering
  Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...
  
  
• Hiking
  Hiking
  Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain. People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking...
  
  
• Rope Climbing
  Rope climbing
  Rope climbing is a sport in which competitors, usually men, attempt to climb up a suspended vertical rope using only their hands. Rope climbing is practised regularly at the World Police and Fire Games, and is enjoying a resurgence in France, where competitions are held in shopping centres...
  
  
• Ice Climbing
  Ice climbing
  Ice climbing, as the term indicates, is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water. For the purposes of...
  
  

Cycling

Sports using bicycle

Bicycle

A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....

s or unicycle

Unicycle

A unicycle is a human-powered, single-track vehicle with one wheel. Unicycles resemble bicycles, but are less complex.-History:One theory of the advent of the unicycle stems from the popularity of the penny-farthing during the late 19th century...

s.

Bicycle

• Artistic cycling
  Artistic cycling
  Artistic cycling is a form of competitive indoor cycling in which athletes perform tricks for points on specialized, fixed-gear bikes in a format similar to ballet or gymnastics...
  
  
• Bicycle Motocross
  Bicycle motocross
  Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...
  
   or BMX
  BMX
  Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...
  
  
• Bobrun cycling
• Freestyle BMX
  Freestyle BMX
  Freestyle BMX is a synonym for BMX stunt riding, a sport branch that hails from extreme sports. It consists of six disciplines: street, park, vert, trails, dirt and flatland .-History:...
  
  
• Cyclo-cross
  Cyclo-cross
  Cyclo-cross is a form of bicycle racing. Races typically take place in the autumn and winter , and consists of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and...
  
  
• Cross-country mountain biking
• Road bicycle racing
  Road bicycle racing
  Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...
  
  
• Track cycling
  Track cycling
  Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....
  
  
• Downhill mountain biking
• Freeride mountain biking
• Dirt jumping
  Dirt Jumping
  Dirt jumping is one of the names given to the practice of riding bikes over cement type jumps of dirt or soil and becoming airborne. The idea is that after riding over the 'take off' the rider will become momentarily airborne, and aim to land on the 'landing'.Dirt jumping can be done on almost...
  
  
• Slopestyle
  Slopestyle
  Slopestyle is a popular type of competition for winter action sports; which originated as a snowboarding competition format. Today, there are many sports that are considered to have this style of competition, of which skiing and snowboarding are two of the most common...
  
  
• Racing Bicycle
  Racing bicycle
  A racing bicycle, also known as a road bike, is a bicycle designed for competitive road cycling, a sport governed by according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale...
  
   (The Award of Records Sports)
• unicycling

Combat sports

Combat sport is a competitive contact sport

Contact sport

Many sports involve a degree of player-to-player or player-to-object contact. The term "contact sport" is used in both team sports and combat sports, medical terminology and television game shows, such as the Gladiators and Wipeout, to certain degrees...

 where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.

Grappling

• A Bracciuta
• A Brazzos
• Aba Guresi
• Aikido
  Aikido
  is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to...
  
  
• Aiki-jūjutsu
• Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art, combat sport, and a self defense system that focuses on grappling and especially ground fighting...
  
  
• Catch wrestling
  Catch wrestling
  Catch wrestling is a style of folk wrestling that was developed and popularised in the late 19th century by the wrestlers of traveling carnivals who incorporated submission holds, or "hooks", into their wrestling to increase their effectiveness against their opponents...
  
  
• Dumog
  Dumog
  Dumog is the Filipino style of wrestling while standing upright and refers to the grappling aspect of Filipino martial arts. The word dumog is most commonly used in Mindanao and the Visayas, while the word buno is used in Luzon, specifically in the Southern Tagalog-speaking provinces as far south...
  
  
• Glima
  Glima
  Glíma is the Icelandic national style of folk wrestling.There are four points that differentiate it from other forms of wrestling:*The opponents must always stand erect.*The opponents step clockwise around each other...
  
  
• Judo
  Judo
  is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
  
  
• Jujutsu
  Jujutsu
  Jujutsu , also known as jujitsu, ju-jitsu, or Japanese jiu-jitsu, is a Japanese martial art and a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon, or only a short weapon....
  
  
• Kinomichi
  Kinomichi
  is a martial art in the tradition of budō, developed from the Japanese art aikido by Masamichi Noro and founded in Paris, France, in 1979. Masamichi Noro was one of the live-in students of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido...
  
  
• Kurash
  Kurash
  Kurash is a form of upright jacket wrestling native to Uzbeks, practiced since ancient times. It is an event in the Asian Games and there is an effort to include Kurash in the Olympic games.-Rules:...
  
  
• Malla-yuddha
  Malla-yuddha
  ' is the traditional South Asian form of combat-wrestling created in what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka...
  
  
• Mongolian wrestling
  Mongolian wrestling
  Mongolian wrestling, known as Bökh , is the folk wrestling style of Mongols in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and other regions...
  
  
• Pehlwani
  Pehlwani
  Pehlwani or Pahlavani or Kushti is a Persian style of wrestling popular in Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. It was developed in the Mughal era through a synthesis of Indian malla-yuddha and Persian Varzesh-e Bastani....
  
  
• Sambo (martial art)
  Sambo (martial art)
  Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...
  
  
• Shuai Jiao
  Shuai jiao
  Shuai jiao is the general Mandarin Chinese term for wrestling. As a generic name, it may be used to cover various styles of wrestling practised in China in the form of a martial arts system or a sport. The narrower term pertains to wrestling styles of the North China Plain...
  
  
• Ssireum
  Ssireum
  Historically, there have been other terms for "wrestling" in Korean used alongside ssireum, such as gakjeo , gakhui , gakryeok , gakgii , chiuhui , sangbak , jaenggyo ....
  
  
• Sumo
  Sumo
  is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...
  
  
• Varzesh-e Pahlavani
  Varzesh-e Pahlavani
  Varzesh-e Bastani is a traditional style of folk wrestling practiced in Iran....
  
  
• Wrestling
  Wrestling
  Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
  
  
• Yağlı Güreş
  Yagli güres
  Oil wrestling , also called grease wrestling, is the Turkish national sport. It is so called because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. It is related to the Uzbeki kurash, Tuvan khuresh and Tatar köräş...
  
  

Weapons

• Battōjutsu
  Battojutsu
  is a Japanese term meaning techniques for engaging a sword. It is often used interchangeably with the terms iaijutsu, battōdō, or iaidō, although each term does have nuances in the Japanese language and different schools of Japanese martial arts may use them to differentiate between techniques...
  
  
• Eskrima
  Eskrima
  Eskrima is the umbrella term for the traditional martial arts of the Philippines, which emphasize weapon-based fighting with sticks, knives and other bladed weapons, and various improvised weapons...
  
  
• Egyptian stick fencing
  Egyptian stick fencing
  Tahtib is the Modern Egyptian term for a traditional form of Egyptian folk dance involving a wooden stick, also known as "stick dance" or "cane dance"....
  
  
• Fencing
  Fencing
  Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
  
  
• Gatka
  Gatka
  Gatka is a weapon-based Indian martial art created by the Sikhs of the Punjab region. The word gatka refers to the wooden stick used in sparring matches. The term might have originated as a diminutive of the Sanskrit word gadha or mace....
  
  
• Haidong Gumdo
  Haidong Gumdo
  Haedong Kumdo, also spelled Haidong Gumdo, is a name coined around 1982 and used for several Korean martial arts organizations that use swords. Spelling varies between certain organizations...
  
  
• Hojōjutsu
  Hojojutsu
  Hojōjutsu or Nawajutsu, is the traditional Japanese martial art of restraining a person using cord or rope.Encompassing many different materials, techniques and methods from many different schools, Hojojutsu is a quintessentially Japanese art that is a unique product of Japanese history and...
  
  
• Iaidō
  Iaido
  is a modern Japanese martial art associated with the smooth, controlled movements of drawing the sword from its scabbard, striking or cutting an opponent, removing blood from the blade, and then replacing the sword in the scabbard...
  
  
• Iaijutsu
  Iaijutsu
  , the art of drawing the Japanese sword. One of Japanese martial disciplines in education of the classical warrior .-Etymology:"Iaijutsu" was known before the Tokugawa period but it is unclear exactly when the term "iaijutsu" first came into use, or when exactly drawing the katana from its...
  
  
• Jōdō
  Jodo
  , meaning "the way of the jō", or is a Japanese martial art using short staffs called jō. The art is similar to bōjutsu, and is strongly focused upon defense against the Japanese sword. The jō is a short staff, usually about 3 to 5 feet long...
  
  
• Jogo do Pau
  Jogo do Pau
  Jogo do Pau is a Portuguese martial art which developed in the northern regions of Portugal , focusing on the use of a staff of fixed measures and characteristics. The origins of this martial art are uncertain, but its purpose was primarily self-defence...
  
  
• Jūkendō
  Jukendo
  is the Japanese martial art of bayonet fighting, and has been likened to kendo . Jukendo techniques are based on sojutsu or bayonet techniques from the 17th century, when firearms were introduced to Japan....
  
  
• Juttejutsu
  Juttejutsu
  is the Japanese martial art of using the Japanese weapon jutte . Juttejutsu was evolved mainly for the law enforcement officers of the Edo period to enable non-lethal disarmament and apprehension of criminals who were usually carrying a sword...
  
  
• Kendo
  Kendo
  , meaning "Way of The Sword", is a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting based on traditional Japanese swordsmanship, or kenjutsu.Kendo is a physically and mentally challenging activity that combines strong martial arts values with sport-like physical elements.-Practitioners:Practitioners...
  
  
• Kenjutsu
  Kenjutsu
  , meaning "the method, or technique, of the sword." This is opposed to kendo, which means the way of the sword. Kenjutsu is the umbrella term for all traditional schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration...
  
  
• kung fu
• Kyūdō
  Kyudo
  , literally meaning "way of the bow", is the Japanese art of archery. It is a modern Japanese martial art and practitioners are known as .It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners of kyudo today....
  
  
• Kyūjutsu
  Kyujutsu
  is the traditional Japanese martial art of wielding a bow. Although the samurai of feudal Japan are perhaps best known for their swordsmanship with a katana , kyūjutsu was actually considered a more vital skill for a significant portion of Japanese history...
  
  
• Modern Arnis
  Modern Arnis
  Modern Arnis is the system of Filipino martial arts founded by the late Remy Presas as a self-defense system. His goal was to create an injury-free training method as well as an effective self-defense system in order to preserve the older Arnis systems...
  
  
• Naginatajutsu
  Naginatajutsu
  is the Japanese martial art of wielding the . This is a weapon resembling the medieval European glaive. Most naginatajutsu practiced today is in a modernized form, a gendai budō, in which competitions also are held.-Debated origins:...
  
  
• Okinawan kobudō
  Okinawan kobudo
  Okinawan kobudō is a Japanese term that can be translated as "old martial way of Okinawa"...
  
  
• Shurikenjutsu
  Shurikenjutsu
  is a general term describing the traditional Japanese martial arts of throwing shuriken, which are small, hand-held weapons used primarily by the shinobi in feudal Japan, such as metal spikes bō shuriken, circular plates of metal known as hira shuriken, and knives .Shurikenjutsu was usually taught...
  
  
• Silambam
  Silambam
  Silambam or silambattam is a weapon-based Dravidian martial art from Tamil Nadu in south India but also practised by the Tamil community of Sri Lanka and Malaysia. In Tamil, the word silambam refers to the bamboo staff which is the main weapon used in this style...
  
  
• Sōjutsu
  Sojutsu
  , meaning "art of the spear" is the Japanese martial art of fighting with the Japanese .-Origins:Although the spear had a profound role in early Japanese mythology, where the islands of Japan themselves were said to be created by salt water dripping from the tip of a spear, as a weapon the first...
  
  
• Swordfighting
• wushu (sport)
  Wushu (sport)
  The sport of wushu is both an exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts. It was created in the People's Republic of China after 1949, in an attempt to nationalize the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts...
  
  

Striking

• Akroteri Punching
• Choi Kwang-Do
• Boxing
  Boxing
  Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
  
  
• Bokator
  Bokator
  Bokator, or more formally, Labokkatao is a Cambodian martial art that includes close hand-to-hand combat, ground techniques and weapons. Possibly the oldest existing fighting system in Cambodia, oral tradition indicates that bokator or an early form thereof was the close quarter combat system used...
  
  
• Capoeira
  Capoeira
  Capoeira is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native influences, probably beginning in the 16th century...
  
  
• Chessboxing
• Fujian White Crane
• Karate
  Karate
  is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
  
  
• Kenpō
  Kenpo
  is the name of several Japanese martial arts. The word kenpō is a Japanese translation of the Chinese word "quánfǎ. This term is often informally transliterated as "kempo", as a result of applying Traditional Hepburn romanization, but failing to use a macron to indicate the long vowel...
  
  
• Kickboxing
  Kickboxing
  Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
  
  
• Lethwei
  Lethwei
  Lethwei is an unarmed Burmese martial art. It is similar to related styles of Indochinese kickboxing, namely Muay Thai from Thailand, pradal serey from Cambodia, Muay Lao from Laos and tomoi from Malaysia.- History :...
  
  
• Muay Thai
  Muay Thai
  Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
  
  
• Pradal Serey
  Pradal Serey
  Pradal serey is an unarmed martial art from Cambodia. In Khmer the word pradal means fighting or boxing and serey means free. Originally used for warfare, pradal serey is now one of Cambodia's national sports...
  
  
• San shou
  San shou
  Sanshou or Sanda or an "unsanctioned fight" is a Chinese hand-to-hand self-defense system and combat sport. Sanshou is a martial art which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the intense study and practices of traditional Kung Fu and modern combat fighting techniques; it...
  
  
• Savate
  Savate
  Savate , also known as boxe française, French boxing, French kickboxing or French footfighting, is a French martial art which uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Only foot kicks are allowed unlike some systems such as Muay...
  
  
• Shaolin kung fu
  Shaolin kung fu
  Shaolin Kung Fu refers to a collection of Chinese martial arts that claim affiliation with the Shaolin Monastery.Of the multitude styles of kung fu and wushu, only some are actually related to Shaolin...
  
  
• Sikaran
  Sikaran
  Sikaran is a distinct Filipino Martial Art focused heavily on foot fighting and played as a game by farmers inside circular arenas in the middle of rice fields....
  
  
• Silat
  Silat
  Silat Melayu is a blanket term for the types of silat created in peninsular Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore. The silat tradition has deep roots in Malay culture and can trace its origin to the dawn of Malay civilization, 2000 years ago...
  
  
• Subak
  Subak
  Subak, Subakgi or Yusul is either a specific ancient Korean martial art. Historically this term may have specified the old Korean martial art of taekkyeon.-History:...
  
  
• Taekkyeon
• Taekwondo
  Taekwondo
  Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
  
  
• Taido
  Taido
  Taidō is a Japanese martial art created in 1965 by Seiken Shukumine . The word taidō means "way of the body." Taidō has its roots in traditional Okinawan Karate...
  
  
• Tang Soo Do
  Tang Soo Do
  Tang Soo Do is a Korean martial art promoted by Hwang Kee that has roots in various martial arts, including taekkyeon and Subak.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Wing Chun
  Wing Chun
  Wing Chun , also romanised as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun, ; ; is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilizing both striking and grappling while specializing in close-range combat.The alternative characters 永春 "eternal spring" are also...
  
  
• Wing Tsun
  Wing Tsun
  Wing Tsun is a branch of Wing Chun, led by Leung Ting.The particular phonetic spelling of 詠春 as Wing Tsun was picked by the branch founder Leung Ting to differentiate his branch from the others...
  
  
• Zui Quan
  Zui Quan
  Zui Quan is literally Drunken Fist, also known as Drunken Boxing or Drunkard's Boxing) is a concept in traditional Chinese martial arts, as well as a classification of modern Wushu forms...
  
  

Mixed or hybrid

• Adi Murai
• Baguazhang
  Baguazhang
  Bāguàzhǎng is one of the three main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school, the other two being Taijiquan and Xingyiquan. It is more broadly grouped as an internal practice...
  
  
• Bando
  Bando
  Bando is a defensive style of thaing focusing on animal-based techniques. The earliest meanings of the word were self-discipline, self-development and self-improvement. Later, it came to mean self-protection or self-defense...
  
  
• Bartitsu
  Bartitsu
  Bartitsu is an eclectic martial art and self-defence method originally developed in England during the years 1898–1902. In 1901 it was immortalised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories...
  
  
• Bujinkan
  Bujinkan
  The Bujinkan is an international martial arts organization based in Japan and headed by Masaaki Hatsumi, it is best known for its association with ninjutsu. The system taught by this group, called Bujinkan Budō Tai jutsu, consists of nine separate martial arts traditions .-Origins:Hatsumi's...
  
  
• Hapkido
  Hapkido
  Hapkido is a dynamic and also eclectic Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, techniques of other martial arts, as well as kicks, punches, and other striking attacks...
  
  
• Hwa Rang Do
  Hwa Rang Do
  Hwa Rang Do is a Korean martial art that was created by Dr. Joo Bang Lee and his brother Joo Sang Lee. This martial art teaches fighting techniques, weapons, spiritual training, intellectual enhancement, and artistic pursuits. It has a very evolved technical structure.-History:The name Hwa Rang Do...
  
  
• Jeet Kune Do
  Jeet Kune Do
  Jeet Kune Do is a hybrid martial arts system and life philosophy founded by martial artist Bruce Lee with direct, non classical and straightforward movements. Due to the way his style works they believe in minimal movement with maximum effect and extreme speed. The system works on the use of...
  
  
• Kajukenbo
  Kajukenbo
  Kajukenbo is a hybrid martial art that combines Western Boxing, Judo, Jujutsu, Kenpo Karate, Eskrima, Tang Soo Do, and Kung Fu. It was founded in 1947 in Oahu, Hawaii, at the Palama Settlement. The original purpose of the art was to deal with local crime and to help the people defend themselves...
  
  
• Kalarippayattu
  Kalarippayattu
  Kalaripayattu is a southern Indian martial art originating in Tamil Nadu but also practiced in contiguous parts of Kerala and Karnataka.Kalari payat includes strikes, kicks, grappling, preset forms, weaponry and healing methods...
  
  
• Krav Maga
  Krav Maga
  Krav Maga is a noncompetitive eclectic self-defense system developed in Europe that involves striking techniques, wrestling and grappling. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and extremely efficient, brutal counter-attacks...
  
  
• Kuk Sool Won
  Kuk Sool Won
  Kuk Sool Won is a Korean martial arts system founded by Suh In-Hyuk |Grandmaster]]) in 1958. The name Kuk Sool Won translates to "National Martial Art Association" and despite often being shortened to 'Kuk Sool,' the name kuk sool is a non-trade marked name used to denote similar Korean martial...
  
  
• MCMAP
• Mixed martial arts
  Mixed martial arts
  Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
  
  
• Northern Praying Mantis
• Ninjutsu
  Ninjutsu
  or may be:*the arts associated with espionage and assassination in feudal Japan, see Ninja*modern schools of martial arts claiming to be based in these traditions, see Modern Schools of Ninjutsu*fictional depictions, see Ninja in popular culture...
  
  
• Pankration
  Pankration
  Pankration was a martial art introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and founded as a blend of boxing and wrestling but without any rules. The term comes from the Greek , literally meaning "all powers" from "all" + "strength, power". Spartans were taught to use this ancient...
  
  
• Pencak Silat
  Pencak Silat
  Pencak silat is an umbrella term for the indigenous martial arts created in Indonesia. The leading organization of pencak silat in Indonesia is IPSI...
  
  
• Sanshou
• Shidokan
• Shoot boxing
  Shoot boxing
  Shoot boxing is both a combat sport and a stand-up fighting promotion company based in Tokyo, Japan. The organization was founded by former kickboxer Caesar Takeshi in 1985....
  
  
• Shootfighting
  Shootfighting
  Shootfighting is a combat sport and martial art, with competitions governed by the International Shootfighting Association . Shootfighting incorporates techniques from a multitude of traditional martial arts, the most principle of these being Muay Thai and Catch Wrestling.Shootfighting was...
  
  
• Shorinji Kempo
  Shorinji Kempo
  was established by as a system for self-improvement and training in Japan in 1947 based on Shaolin kungfu ....
  
  
• Systema
  Systema
  Systema is a Russian martial art. Training includes: hand to hand combat, grappling, knife fighting and fire arms training as well. Training involves drills and sparring without set kata. It focuses mainly on controlling the six body levers through pressure point application, striking and weapon...
  
  
• T'ai chi ch'uan
• Vajra Mushti
  Vajra Mushti
  Vajra Mushti is a Sanskrit bahuvrihi compound translating to "one who is grasping a thunderbolt" or "one whose clenched fist is like a diamond". It is a name of Indra mentioned in the Ramayana epic....
  
  
• Vovinam
  Vovinam
  Vovinam is a Vietnamese martial art.Vovinam is practiced with and without weapons. It is based on the principle of between hard and soft. It includes training of the body as well as the mind. It uses force and reaction of the opponent. Vovinam also includes hand, elbow, kicks, escape- and levering...
  
  
• Xingyiquan
  Xingyiquan
  Xingyiquan is one of the major "internal" or Wudang styles of Chinese martial arts. The word translates approximately to "Form/Intention Boxing", or "Shape/Will Boxing", and is characterized by aggressive, seemingly linear movements and explosive power...
  
  
• Yoga
  Yoga
  Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India. The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility while meditating on Supersoul...
  
  

Cue sports

• Carom billiards
  • Three-cushion
  • Five-pins
    Five-pins
    Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins , is a today usually a carom but sometimes still a pocket form of cue sport, popular especially in Italy and Argentina but also in some other parts of Latin America and Europe, with international, televised professional tournaments...
    
    
  • Balkline and straight rail
    Balkline and straight rail
    Balkline is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red , on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called...
    
    
  • Cushion caroms
    Cushion caroms
    Cushion caroms sometimes called by its original name, the indirect game, is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth-covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, pocketless table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball...
    
    
  • Four-ball (yotsudama)
  • Artistic billiards
    Artistic billiards
    Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty...
    
    
• Novuss
  Novuss
  Novuss is a game of physical skill which is closely related to pocket billiards, but on a smaller scale. It is essentially a larger, cued derivative of the boardgame carrom. Novuss is a national sport in Latvia. The board is approximately 40 in. square, made out of wood, has in each corner, and...
  
  
• Pocket billiards
  Pocket billiards
  Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
  
   (pool)
  • Eight-ball
  • Blackball
    Blackball (pool)
    Blackball is a pool game that is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, several Western European nations, Australia and some other countries. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool"...
    
    
  • Nine-ball
  • Straight pool
    Straight Pool
    Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a pocket billiards game, and was the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball...
    
     (14.1 continuous)
  • One-pocket
  • Three-ball
  • Seven-ball
    Seven-ball
    Seven-ball is a contemporary pool game with rules similar to nine-ball, though it differs in two key ways: the game uses only seven as implied by its name, and play is restricted to particular pockets of the table. William D. Clayton is credited with the game's invention, ca...
    
    
  • Ten-ball
  • Rotation
  • Baseball pocket billiards
    Baseball pocket billiards
    Baseball pocket billiards or baseball pool is a pocket billiards game suitable for multiple players that borrows phraseology and even some aspects of form from the game of baseball...
    
    
  • Cribbage (pool)
    Cribbage (pool)
    Cribbage, sometimes called cribbage pocket billiards, cribbage pool, fifteen points and pair pool, is a two-player pocket billiards game that, like its namesake card game, has a scoring system which awards points for pairing groups of balls that total 15...
    
    
  • Bank pool
  • Artistic pool
  • Trick shot
    Trick shot
    A trick shot is a shot played on a billiards table , which seems unlikely, impossible, or requires significant skill...
    
     competition
  • Speed pool
    Speed pool
    Speed pool is a solitary pool game. As its name suggests, one all the pool balls on the table as quickly as possible. It can played be competitively with the aid of a stopwatch.-Rules:...
    
    
  • Bowlliards
    Bowlliards
    Bowlliards is a pool game often used as a training . The game borrows aspects of ten-pin bowling. The game is divided into ten frames where a player gets a maximum of two innings to ten balls.-Gameplay:...
    
    
  • Chicago
  • Kelly pool
    Kelly pool
    Kelly pool is a pocket billiards game played on a standard pool table using fifteen numbered markers called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls...
    
    
  • Cutthroat
  • Killer
    Killer (pool)
    Killer or killers is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of "lives" and takes one shot per to attempt to a ball, or else lose a life. Usually if the player then an additional life is lost...
    
    
  • Russian pyramid
• Snooker
  Snooker
  Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
  
  
  • Snooker plus
    Snooker Plus
    Snooker plus is a cue sport based on snooker. The variant was created by Joe Davis, who added an orange ball and a purple ball to the set. The idea was that this would increase the maximum break from 147 to 210, and so help to attract a greater audience...
    
    
• Hybrid carom-pocket games
  • English billiards
    English billiards
    English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, is a hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table. Billiards is less well known as "the English game", "the all-in game" and "the common game".The game is for...
    
    
  • Bottle pool
    Bottle pool
    Bottle pool, also known as bottle-billiards and bottle pocket billiards, is a hybrid billiards game combining aspects of both carom billiards and pocket billiards...
    
    
  • Cowboy
    Cowboy (billiards)
    Cowboy pool, sometimes just called cowboy, is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. The game employs only four balls, the cue ball and three numbered balls, the 1, 3 and 5...
    
    
• Obstacle variations
  • Bagatelle
    Bagatelle
    Bagatelle is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes...
    
    
  • Bar billiards
    Bar billiards
    Bar Billiards is a form of billiards which is often thought to be based on the traditional game of bagatelle. It is actually based on the French/Belgian Billard Russe game that preceded it....
    
    
  • Bumper pool
    Bumper pool
    Bumper pool is a pocket billards game played on an octagonal or rectangular table fitted with an array of fixed cushioned obstacles, called bumpers, at the center of its surface.- Table :...
    
    

Dance

• Acro
  Acro dance
  Acro dance is a style of dance that combines classical dance technique with precision acrobatic elements. It is defined by its athletic character, its unique choreography, which seamlessly blends dance and acrobatics, and its use of acrobatics in a dance context...
  
  
• Ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
  
• Ballroom
  Ballroom dance
  Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television....
  
  
• Color Guard, or Flag Spinning
• Competitive
  Competitive dance
  Competitive dance is a popular, widespread activity in which competitors perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles—such as acro, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, modern, and tap—before a common group of judges...
  
  
• Ensemble
• Dancesport
  DanceSport
  Dancesport denotes competitive ballroom dancing, as contrasted to social or exhibition dancing. It is wheelchair dancesport where at least one of the dancers is in a wheelchair....
  
  
• Flag Twirling
• Flamenco
  Flamenco
  Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....
  
  
• Hip-hop
• Interpretive dance
  Interpretive dance
  Interpretive dance is a family of dance styles that seeks to translates particular feelings and emotions, human conditions, situations, or fantasies into movement and dramatic expression combined...
  
  
• Jazz
  Jazz dance
  Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...
  
  
• Latin
• Lyrical
  Lyrical dance
  Lyrical dance is a fusion of ballet with jazz and contemporary dance techniques.You can also get lyrical gymnastics which is gymnastics to music. It has a dance influence to it....
  
  
• Modern
  Modern dance
  Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance.-Intro:...
  
  
• Musical Theatre
  Musical theatre
  Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
  
  
• Pointe
• Salsa
  Salsa (dance)
  Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...
  
  
• SloModern
• Swing
  Swing (dance)
  "Swing dance" is a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, although the earliest of these dances predate swing jazz music. The best known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, a popular partner dance that originated in Harlem and is still danced today...
  
  
• Tango
  Tango (ballroom)
  Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance....
  
  
• Tap
  Tap dance
  Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the...
  
  
• Tribal dance
  Tribal Dance
  "Tribal Dance" was the second single to be released by the band 2 Unlimited from their second album No Limits.The song was released in the UK in May 1993 and peaked at #4 for 2 weeks and spent a total of 11 weeks in the UK Singles Chart....
  
  

Equine Sports

Sports using a horse.

• Buzkashi
  Buzkashi
  Buzkashi or Kok-boru or Oglak Tartis or Ulak Tartysh is a traditional Central Asian...
  
  
• Barrel Racing
  Barrel racing
  Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to complete a clover-leaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. Though both boys and girls compete at the youth level and men compete in some amateur venues, in collegiate and professional ranks, it is primarily a rodeo...
  
  
• Campdrafting
  Campdrafting
  Campdrafting is a unique and very popular Australian sport involving a horse and rider working cattle. The riding style is like that of Western riding and the event is somewhat related to the American events such as cutting, working cow horse, team penning, and ranch sorting.In the competition, a...
  
  
• Cross Country
  Cross-country equestrianism
  Cross country equestrian jumping is an endurance test, and is one of the three phases of the sport of eventing; it may also be a competition in its own right, known as hunter trials or simply "cross-country" - these tend to be lower level, local competitions.The object of the endurance test is to...
  
  
• Dressage
  Dressage
  Dressage is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as "the highest expression of horse training." Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games...
  
  
• Endurance riding
  Endurance riding
  Endurance riding is an equestrian sport based on controlled long-distance races. It is one of the international competitions recognized by the FEI. There are endurance rides worldwide....
  
  
• English Pleasure
  English Pleasure
  English pleasure is generic term for a number of different English riding classes seen at horse shows in the United States, where the horse is ridden in either hunt seat or saddle seat tack....
  
  
• Equitation
  Equitation
  Equitation is the art or practice of horse riding or horsemanship.More specifically, equitation may refer to a rider's position while mounted, and encompass a rider's ability to ride correctly and with effective aids. In horse show competition, the rider, rather than the horse is evaluated...
  
  
• Eventing
  Eventing
  Eventing is an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding...
  
  
• Equestrian vaulting
  Equestrian vaulting
  Equestrian vaulting, or simply Vaulting , is most often described as gymnastics and dance on horseback and, like these disciplines, it can be practised as a non-competitive art/performance or as a competitive sport. Vaulting has been an equestrian act at the circus from its early days. It is open...
  
  
• Gymkhana
  Gymkhana
  Gymkhana is a typical Anglo-Indian expression, which is derived from the Hindi-Urdu word for "racket court," is an Indian term which originally referred to a place where sporting events take place. The meaning then altered to denote a place where skill-based contests were held...
  
  
• Harness racing
  Harness racing
  Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait . They usually pull a two-wheeled cart called a sulky, although racing under saddle is also conducted in Europe.-Breeds:...
  
  
• Horse racing
  Horse racing
  Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...
  
  
• Hunter
• Reining
  Reining
  Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the riders guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. All work is done at the lope and gallop; the fastest of the horse gaits...
  
  
• Rodeo
  Rodeo
  Rodeo is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States,...
  
  
• Show Jumping
  Show jumping
  Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping," "open jumping," or "jumpers," is a member of a family of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation. Jumping classes commonly are seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics...
  
  
• Steeplechase
  Steeplechase (horse racing)
  The steeplechase is a form of horse racing and derives its name from early races in which orientation of the course was by reference to a church steeple, jumping fences and ditches and generally traversing the many intervening obstacles in the countryside...
  
  
• Team penning
  Team penning
  Team penning is a western equestrian sport that evolved from the common ranch work of separating cattle into pens for branding, doctoring, or transport....
  
  
• Tent pegging
  Tent pegging
  Tent pegging is a cavalry sport of ancient origin, and is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports. Used narrowly, the term refers to a specific mounted game with ground targets...
  
  
• Western Pleasure
  Western Pleasure
  Western Pleasure is a western style competition at horse shows that evaluates horses on manners and suitability of the horse for a relaxed but collected gait cadence and relatively slow speed of gait, along with calm and responsive disposition. The horse is to appear to be a "pleasure" to ride and...
  
  

Fishing

• Angling
  Angling
  Angling is a method of fishing by means of an "angle" . The hook is usually attached to a fishing line and the line is often attached to a fishing rod. Fishing rods are usually fitted with a fishing reel that functions as a mechanism for storing, retrieving and paying out the line. The hook itself...
  
  
• Big-game fishing
  Big-game fishing
  Big-game fishing, often referred to as offshore sportfishing, offshore gamefishing, or blue-water fishing is a form of recreational fishing, targeting large fish renowned for their sporting qualities, such as tuna and marlin.-History:...
  
  
• Casting
  Casting (fishing)
  In angling, casting is the act of throwing bait or a lure using a fishing line out over the water using a flexible fishing rod. The usual technique is for the angler to quickly flick the rod from behind toward the water...
  
  
• Noodling
  Noodling
  Noodling is fishing for catfish using only bare hands, practiced primarily in the southern United States. The noodler places his hand inside a discovered catfish hole...
  
  
• Spearfishing
  Spearfishing
  Spearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia. Early civilizations were familiar with the custom of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks....
  
  
• Sport fishing
• Surf fishing
  Surf fishing
  Surf fishing is the sport of catching fish standing on the shoreline or wading in the surf. A general term, surf fishing may or may not include casting a lure or bait, and refers to all types of shore fishing - from sandy and rocky beaches, rock jetties, or even fishing piers...
  
  
• Rock fishing
  Rock fishing
  Rock fishing is fishing from rocky outcrops into the sea. It is a popular pastime in Australia and New Zealand. It can be a dangerous pastime and claims many lives each year, although this may improve as more fisherman wear life jackets.-Dangers:...
  
  
• Fly Fishing
  Fly fishing
  Fly fishing is an angling method in which an artificial 'fly' is used to catch fish. The fly is cast using a fly rod, reel, and specialized weighted line. Casting a nearly weightless fly or 'lure' requires casting techniques significantly different from other forms of casting...
  
  

Flying disc sports

• Disc dog
  Disc dog
  Disc dog is the more generic name for what is commonly called Frisbee dog. In disc dog competitions, dogs and their human flying disc throwers compete in events such as distance catching and somewhat choreographed freestyle catching. The sport celebrates the bond between handler and dog, by...
  
  
• Disc golf
  Disc golf
  Disc golf is a disc game in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or at a target. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, "The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc." Of the more than 3000...
  
  
• Dodge disc
• Durango boot
  Durango Boot
  Durango boot is a competitive, non-contact sport that makes use of a flying disc , somewhat similar to Ultimate. The name Durango comes from the fact that the sport was first played in Durango, Colorado...
  
  
• Double disc court
• Flutterguts
• Freestyle
• Fricket
  Fricket
  Fricket or disc cricket is a disc game generally played by two teams of two players each , though it is possible to play one-on-one. The game is roughly derived from cricket , and played with flying discs...
  
   – also known as disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks or crispy wickets
• Friskee
• Goaltimate
  Goaltimate
  Goaltimate is a half-court disc game derived from ultimate, similar to hot box. The object is to score points by throwing a flying disc to a teammate in a small scoring area, through a large semicircular hoop called the goal. The name is a portmanteau of "goal" and "ultimate".-History:Goaltimate...
  
  
• Guts (sport)
• Hot box
• Ringo
  Ringo (sport)
  Ringo is a sport played mainly in Poland. It is played on a rectangular court with a raised net, similar to volleyball or badminton. Individual players or teams stand on opposite sides of the net and throw a small rubber ring back and forth, without letting it hit the ground...
  
  
• Ultimate (sport)
  Ultimate (sport)
  Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
  
  

Football family

• Ancient games
  • Chinlone
    Chinlone
    Chinlone is the traditional sport of Burma . Chinlone is a combination of sport and dance, a team sport with no opposing team. In essence chinlone is non-competitive. The focus is not on winning or losing, but how beautifully one plays the game....
    
    
  • Cuju
    Cuju
    Cuju is an ancient code of football with similarities to association football. It is seen by some to be a forerunner of modern football and originated in China, and was also played in Korea, Japan and Vietnam.-History:...
    
    
  • Episkyros
    Episkyros
    Episkyros was an ancient Greek ball game . The game was played between two teams of usually 12 to 14 players each, with one ball and the rules of the game allowed using hands. Although it was a ball game, it was violent, at least at Sparta...
    
    
  • Harpastum
    Harpastum
    Harpastum, also known as Harpustum, was a form of ball game played in the Roman Empire. The Romans also referred to it as the small ball game. The ball used was small and hard, probably about the size and solidity of a softball...
    
    
  • Kemari
    Kemari
    Kemari is a form of football that was popular in Japan during the Heian Period. Kemari has been revived in modern times.-History:The first evidence of kemari is from A.D.644. The rules were standardized from the 13th century. It was the first Japanese sport to become highly developed.The game was...
    
    
  • Ki-o-rahi
    Ki-o-rahi
    Ki-o-rahi is a ball sport played in New Zealand with a small round ball called a 'ki'. The game is widely known in Māori communities and in scattered mainstream locations throughout the country. It is a fast-paced sport incorporating skills similar to Australian Rules, rugby union, netball and touch...
    
    
  • Marn Grook
    Marn Grook
    Marn Grook , literally meaning "Game ball", is a collective name given to a number of traditional Indigenous Australian recreational pastimes believed to have been played at gatherings and celebrations of up to 50 players. It is often confused with a separate indigenous game resembling Association...
    
    
  • Woggabaliri
    Woggabaliri
    Woggabaliri, literally meaning "play", is the name given to a traditional Indigenous Australian "co-operative kicking volley game" similar to the English game of Keepie uppie.-History:...
    
    
  • Yubi lakpi
    Yubi lakpi
    Yubi lakpi is a seven-a-side traditional football game played in Manipur, India, using a coconut, which has some notable similarities to rugby. Despite these similarities, the name is not related to the game of rugby or Rugby School in England, it is in fact of Manipuri origin, and means literally...
    
    
• Association football
  • Beach soccer
    Beach soccer
    Beach soccer, also known as beach football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand. The game emphasises skill, agility and shooting at goal....
    
    
  • Crab soccer
    Crab soccer
    Crab soccer , or crab football , is an informal sport for two teams. Players try to kick an inflated ball into a goal to score points. The game can be played with a regular soccer ball, but often is played with a cage ball. At the end of the game, the team with more points wins...
    
    
  • Futebol de Salão
    Futebol de Salão
    Futebol de Salão is a Portuguese word that, in spite of meaning futsal in its original language, has come to be used in English to designate a slightly modified version of the FIFA-sanctioned five-a-side football...
    
    
  • Futsal
    Futsal
    Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...
    
    
  • Indoor soccer
    Indoor soccer
    Indoor soccer or arena soccer, or six-a-side football in the United Kingdom, is a game derived from association football adapted for play in an indoor arena such as a turf-covered hockey arena or skating rink. The most important difference in play is that the indoor field is surrounded by a wall...
    
    
  • Paralympic football
  • Powerchair Football
  • Street football
    Street football
    The term street football encompasses a number of informal varieties of association football. These informal games do not necessarily utilise the requirements of a formal game of football, such as a large field, field markings, goal apparatus and corner flags, eleven players per team , or match...
    
    
  • Swamp football
    Swamp football
    Swamp football is a form of association football that is played in bogs or swamps. The sport is said to come from Bishop Auckland in the north east of England where it initially was used as an exercise activity for athletes and soldiers, since playing on soft bog is physically demanding...
    
    
• Australian football
  • Nine-a-side footy
  • Rec footy
    Rec Footy
    Recreational Football is a non-contact version of the Australian rules football game sanctioned by the Australian Football League...
    
    
  • Metro footy
    Metro Footy
    Metro Footy is a modified version of Australian rules football rules played on gridiron football, rugby or Association football fields, predominantly in the United States of America...
    
    
• English school games
  English public school football games
  During the early modern era students, former students and teachers at English public schools developed and wrote down the first codes of football, most notably the Eton College...
  
  
  • Eton College
    • Field game
      Eton Field Game
      The Field Game is one of two codes of football devised and played at Eton College. The other is the Eton Wall Game. The game is like football in some ways — the ball is round, but one size smaller than a standard football, and may not be handled — but the off-side rules — known as 'sneaking' — are...
      
      
    • Wall game
      Eton Wall Game
      The Eton wall game is a game similar to football and Rugby Union, that originated from and is still played at Eton College. It is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long next to a slightly curved brick wall, erected in 1717....
      
      
  • Harrow Football
    Harrow Football
    Harrow football is a code of football played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more bases than their opponent. Harrow Football is played predominantly with the feet, but players may use any part of their body including, in certain circumstances, their hands and...
    
    
• Gaelic football
  Gaelic football
  Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
  
  
  • Ladies' Gaelic football
    Ladies' Gaelic football
    Ladies' Gaelic football is a team sport for women, very similar to Gaelic football, and co-ordinated by the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association...
    
    
• Gridiron football
  Gridiron football
  Gridiron football , sometimes known as North American football, is an umbrella term for related codes of football primarily played in the United States and Canada. The predominant forms of gridiron football are American football and Canadian football...
  
  
  • American football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
    
    
    • Eight-man football
      Eight-man football
      Eight-man football is a type of American football, generally played by small high schools. Rules and formations vary greatly among states and even among different organizations, but the one constant is eight players from each team on the field at one time, as opposed to eleven-man football, which...
      
      
    • Flag football
      Flag football
      Flag football is a version of Canadian football or American football that is popular worldwide. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the mainstream game , but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier to end...
      
      
    • Indoor football
    • Nine-man football
      Nine-man football
      Nine-man football is a type of American football played by high schools that are too small to play the usual eleven-man game. As of 2007, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota had nine man football....
      
      
    • Six-man football
      Six-man football
      Six-man football is a variant of American football that is played with six players per team, instead of 11.-History:6-man football was developed in 1934 by Chester High School coach Stephen Epler as an alternative means for small high schools to field a football team during the Great Depression...
      
      
    • Sprint football
      Sprint football
      Sprint football, formerly called lightweight football, is a varsity sport played by United States colleges and universities, under rules similar to American football. The sport is currently governed by the Collegiate Sprint Football League....
      
      
    • Touch football
      Touch football (American)
      Touch football is a variant of American football in which the basic rules are similar to those of the mainstream game , but instead of tackling players to the ground, the person carrying the ball need only be touched by a member of the opposite team to end a down...
      
      
  • Arena football
    Arena football
    Arena football is a variety of gridiron football played by the Arena Football League . It is a proprietary game, the rights to which are owned by Gridiron Enterprises, and is played indoors on a smaller field than American or Canadian outdoor football, resulting in a faster and higher-scoring game....
    
    
  • Canadian football
    Canadian football
    Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
    
    
  • Street football (American)
    Street football (American)
    Street football, also known as backyard football or sandlot football, is a simplified variant of American football primarily played informally by youth...
    
    
• Hybrid football
  • Austus
    Austus
    Austus is a sport which was started in Australia during World War II when U.S. soldiers wanted to play a form of football against the Australians...
    
    
  • Football tennis
  • Footvolley
    Footvolley
    Footvolley is a sport which combines aspects of beach volleyball and football .-History:Footvolley was created in Brazil, by Octavio de Moraes, in 1965 in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach as a means for football players to be able to touch the ball without violating the formal football ban at the...
    
    
  • International rules football
    International rules football
    International rules football is a team sport consisting of a hybrid of football codes, which was developed to facilitate international representative matches between Australian rules football players and Gaelic football players....
    
    
  • Kronum
    Kronum
    Kronum is a sport which was invented in 2008 by Bill Gibson. For now this sport is only played in the United States and the professional league takes places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but it is becoming more and more popular, also in Europe. Gibson decided to include elements of different...
    
    
  • Samoa Rules
    Samoa Rules
    Samoa Rules is a game derived from Australian rules football and rugby union that is occasionally played in Samoa.-Rules:Generally the rules are taken from Aussie Rules, but each team consists of 15 players, like rugby union....
    
    
  • Speedball (American)
    Speedball (American)
    Speedball is a code of football, which was devised by combining elements of American football and soccer.-History of Speed ball:Speedball was invented during the late 1970s at Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane, Washington. The previously deficient gym program at Lewis and Clark was turned in a...
    
    
  • Swedish football
    Swedish football (code)
    Swedish football was a code of football devised and played in Sweden from the 1870s to the early 1890s, when the modern association football was introduced...
    
    
  • Universal football
    Universal football
    Universal football was a proposed hybrid sport of Australian rules football and rugby league, trialled at the Sydney Showground in 1933. The game has not been played since that time....
    
    
  • Volata
    Volata
    Volata is a ball game that was developed in fascist Italy as a substitute for association football and rugby union. It was played by eight-man sides to rules that were a hybrid of those for football and handball....
    
    
• Medieval football
  • Ba game
    Ba game
    Ba game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, perhaps most notably in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year....
    
    
  • Caid
    Caid (sport)
    Caid is the name given to various ancient and traditional Irish football games. "Caid" is now used by people in some parts of Ireland to refer to modern Gaelic football.The word caid originally referred to the ball which was used...
    
    
  • Calcio Fiorentino
    Calcio Fiorentino
    Calcio Fiorentino was an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. The Piazza Santa Croce of Florence is the cradle of this sport, that became known as giuoco del calcio fiorentino or simply calcio .The official rules of calcio were published for the first time in 1580 by...
    
    
  • Camping (game)
    Camping (game)
    Camping, also known as campyon, campan, or campball was a Medieval football game played in England. It appears to have been popular in Norfolk and other parts of East Anglia. Of all the traditional forms of football played in Europe, it appears to have been one of the toughest and most dangerous...
    
    
  • Chester-le-Street
    Chester-le-Street
    Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham, England. It has a history going back to Roman times when it was called Concangis. The town is located south of Newcastle upon Tyne and west of Sunderland on the River Wear...
    
    
  • Cnapan
    Cnapan
    Cnapan is a Celtic form of medieval football, vaguely resembling some modern versions of rugby football, played in Wales until the nineteenth century. It may be a forerunner to modern rugby union...
    
    
  • Cornish hurling
    Cornish Hurling
    Cornish Hurling or Hurling the Silver Ball , is an outdoor team game of Celtic origin played only in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is played with a small silver ball...
    
    
  • Haxey Hood
    Haxey Hood
    The Haxey Hood is a traditional event in at the village of Haxey in North Lincolnshire, England, on the afternoon of 6 January, the Twelfth Day of Christmas ....
    
    
  • Knattleikr
    Knattleikr
    Knattleikr is an ancient ball game played by the Vikings of Iceland.-How the game was played:Today no one knows the game's exact rules but there is some information.We know that:*Players were divided into teams....
    
    
  • La soule
    La Soule
    La soule, also known as choule, is a traditional team sport that originated in Normandy and Picardy.The ball, called a soule, could be solid or hollow and made of either wood or leather. Leather balls would be filled with hay, bran, horse hair or moss...
    
    
  • Lelo burti
    Lelo burti
    Lelo or lelo burti is a Georgian folk sport, which is a full contact ball game, and very similar to rugby...
    
    
  • Mob football
    Mob football
    Mob football is the name given to some varieties of Medieval football, which emerged in Europe during the Middle Ages.Mob football distinguished itself from other codes by typically having an unlimited number of players and very few rules. By some accounts, any means could be used to move the ball...
    
    
  • Royal Shrovetide Football
    Royal Shrovetide Football
    The Royal Shrovetide Football Match occurs annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England. It has been played since at least the 12th century, though the exact origins of the game are unknown due to a fire at the Royal Shrovetide Committee office in the...
    
    
  • Uppies and Downies
    Uppies and Downies
    Workington in West Cumbria is home to a tradition known as "Uppies and Downies", a traditional version of football, dating to Medieval times and with roots in Celtic games, although the modern incarnation of Uppies and Downies was rejuvenated some time in the latter half of the 19th century...
    
    
• Rugby football
  Rugby football
  Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
  
  
  • Beach rugby
    Beach Rugby
    Beach rugby is a sport that can be based on either of the rugby football codes, league or union. There is no centralized regulation of the sport as in beach soccer or beach volleyball, but leagues are common across Europe, and the sport is particularly popular in Italy...
    
    
  • Rugby league
    Rugby league
    Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
    
    
    • Masters Rugby League
      Masters Rugby League
      Masters Rugby League is a derivative of rugby league for a wide age range of older, semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials. Masters Rugby League started in New Zealand in 1992 and has since grown in popularity, spreading to Australia and more recently to the United...
      
      
    • Mini footy
      Mini footy
      Mini footy is a form of rugby league developed by the Australian Rugby League. It was developed to introduce children to rugby league....
      
      
    • Mod league
      Mod league
      Mod league is a form of rugby league developed by the Australian Rugby League. It was developed to introduce children to rugby league.Mod league follows on from mini footy; it introduces laws more common to the full international laws of rugby league, whilst also keeping the theme of being an...
      
      
    • Rugby league nines
      Rugby league nines
      Rugby league nines is a version of rugby league football played with nine players on each side. The game is substantially the same as full rugby league, with some differences in rules and shorter games. Nines is usually played in festivals, as its shorter game play allows for a tournament to be...
      
      
    • Rugby league sevens
      Rugby league sevens
      Rugby league sevens is a seven-a-side derivative of rugby league football, which is usually a thirteen-a-side sport. The game is substantially the same as full rugby league, with some rule changes and shorter games...
      
      
    • Tag Rugby
      Tag Rugby
      Tag Rugby, also known as rippa rugby, flag rugby league or flag rugby, is a non-contact team game in which each player wears a belt that has two velcro tags attached to it, or shorts with velcro patches. The mode of play is based on rugby league with many similarities to touch rugby...
      
      
    • Touch Football
      Touch football (rugby league)
      Touch is a field sport also known as Touch Football, or in some countries as Touch Rugby. Touch is overseen worldwide by the Federation of International Touch . Touch has traditionally been played in Australia and New Zealand but the sport has expanded internationally and features many regional and...
      
      
    • Wheelchair rugby league
      Wheelchair rugby league
      Wheelchair rugby league is a wheelchair-based version of rugby league football. It was developed by French rugby league player, coach and official, Robert Fassolette in 2004...
      
      
  • Rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
    
    
    • American flag rugby
      American Flag Rugby
      American flag rugby is a mixed-gender, non-contact imitation of rugby union designed for American children entering grades K–9. The organization itself exists to provide free start up kits and support to any community looking to add a youth rugby program to their community...
      
      
    • Mini rugby
      Mini rugby
      Mini rugby also known as New Image Rugby is a form of rugby union designed to introduce the sport to children. It uses a smaller ball and pitch than standard rugby, and has nine players a side....
      
      
    • Rugby sevens
      Rugby sevens
      Rugby sevens, also known as seven-a-side or VIIs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, with shorter matches. Rugby sevens is administered by the International Rugby Board , the body responsible for rugby union worldwide...
      
      
    • Tag Rugby
      Tag Rugby
      Tag Rugby, also known as rippa rugby, flag rugby league or flag rugby, is a non-contact team game in which each player wears a belt that has two velcro tags attached to it, or shorts with velcro patches. The mode of play is based on rugby league with many similarities to touch rugby...
      
      
    • Touch rugby
      Touch rugby
      Touch rugby, Refers to games derived from rugby football in which players do not tackle in the traditional, highly physical way, but instead touch their opponents using their hands on any part of the body, clothing, or the ball....
      
      
    • Rugby tens
      Rugby tens
      Rugby tens, also known as ten-a-side and Xs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of ten players, typically five forwards and five backs. Matches are much shorter, often of two ten-minute halves...
      
      

Golf

• Match play
  Match play
  Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes...
  
  
• Skins Game
  Skins Game
  A skins game is a type of scoring for various sports, most notably golf but also for curling and bowling.-LG Skins Game:There was an annual skins game for male professional golfers which takes place in November or December each year after the end of the official PGA Tour season. It is recognized by...
  
  
• Stroke play
  Stroke play
  Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf. It involves counting the total number of strokes taken on each hole during a given round, or series of rounds...
  
  
• Team play
  • Fourball
    Fourball
    A Fourball match is a type of golf match used in match play competitions.A fourball match consists of two teams of two players competing directly against each other. All four golfers play their own ball throughout the round, and each hole is won by the team whose member has the lowest score...
    
    
  • Foursome
    Foursome (golf)
    A foursome, also known as alternate shot, is a type of match in the sport of golf.Golfers compete in teams of two, using one ball, and taking alternate shots until the hole is completed. Team members also take turns in teeing off on each hole, i.e...
    
    
  • Shotgun start
    Shotgun start
    A shotgun start is a golf tournament format in which all groups of players tee off simultaneously from different holes. Each hole on a course will be the tee off hole for each foursome. Group 1 would start from hole 1, Group 2 from hole 2, etc. Each group starts play at the same time...
    
    

Gymnastics

• Artistic gymnastics
  Artistic gymnastics
  Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting . The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique , which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of international elite...
  
  
  • Balance Beam
    Balance beam (gymnastics)
    The balance beam is an artistic gymnastics apparatus, as well as the event performed using the apparatus. Both the apparatus and the event are sometimes referred to as simply "beam". The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is BB....
    
    
  • Floor
    Floor (gymnastics)
    In gymnastics, the floor refers to a specially prepared exercise surface, which is considered an apparatus. It is used by both male and female gymnasts. The event in gymnastics performed on floor is called floor exercise. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is FX.A spring...
    
    
  • High Bar
    Horizontal bar
    The high bar, also known as the horizontal bar, is an apparatus used by male gymnasts in Artistic Gymnastics. It traditionally consists of a cylindrical metal bar that is rigidly held above and parallel to the floor by a system of cables and stiff vertical supports. Gymnasts typically wear leather...
    
    
  • Parallel Bars
  • Pommel Horse
    Pommel horse
    The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. Traditionally, it is used by only male gymnasts. Originally made of a metal frame with a wooden body and a leather cover, modern pommel horses have a metal body covered with foam rubber and leather, with plastic handles .- History :The pommel...
    
    
  • Still Rings
    Rings (gymnastics)
    The rings, also known as still rings , is an artistic gymnastics apparatus and the event that uses it. It is traditionally used only by male gymnasts, due to its extreme upper-body strength requirements...
    
    
  • Sport aerobics
    Sport Aerobics
    Sport aerobics, officially called aerobic gymnastics, is the ability to perform continuously complex and high-intensity movement patterns to music—which originates from traditional aerobics—with a high degree of perfectly executed elements of difficulty. The routine must demonstrate...
    
    
  • Uneven Bars
  • Vault
    Vault (gymnastics)
    The vault is an artistic gymnastics apparatus, as well as the skill performed using that apparatus. Vaulting is also the action of performing a vault. Both male and female gymnasts perform the vault...
    
    
• Majorette
  Majorettes
  Baton twirling is an activity involving the manipulation of a metal rod and the human body to a coordinated routine and is similar to rhythmic gymnastics or color guard . Twirling combines dance and gymnastics while manipulating a single baton or multiple batons. It is primarily performed with the...
  
  
• Juggling
  Toss juggling
  Toss juggling is the form of juggling which is most recognisable as 'juggling'. Toss juggling is at once: a performing art, a sport, a form of exercise and meditation, a recreational pursuit and often is a hobby....
  
  
• Parkour
  Parkour
  Parkour is a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency. Originally developed in France, the main purpose of the discipline is to teach participants how to move through their environment by vaulting, rolling, running, climbing and jumping...
  
  
• Rhythmic gymnastics
  Rhythmic gymnastics
  Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...
  
  
  • Ball
    Ball (rhythmic gymnastics)
    The Ball is a piece of apparatus used in rhythmic gymnastics. It is made of either rubber or synthetic material provided it possesses the same elasticity as rubber. It is from 18 to 20 cm in diameter and must have a minimum weight of 400g. The ball can be of any colour...
    
    
  • Club
    Juggling club
    Juggling clubs, or simply clubs are a prop used by jugglers, as are other props such as balls or rings. A typical club is in the range of long, weighs between , is slim at the "handle" end, and has its center of balance nearer the wider "body" end...
    
    
  • Hoop
    Hoop (rhythmic gymnastics)
    A hoop is an apparatus in rhythmic gymnastics and may be made of plastic or wood, provided that it retains its shape during the routine. The interior diameter is from 51 to 90 cm, and the hoop must weigh a minimum of 300g...
    
    
  • Ribbon
    Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics)
    Ribbon is a component of rhythmic gymnastics.-The stick:This can be of any colour and made of wood, bamboo, plastic or fibreglass with a maximum diameter of 1cm at its widest, a cylindrical or conical shape and should have a length of 50–60cm...
    
    
  • Rope
    Rope (rhythmic gymnastics)
    Rope may be made of hemp or a synthetic material which retains the qualities of lightness and suppleness. Its length is in proportion to the size of the gymnast. The rope should, when held down by the feet, reach both of the gymnasts' armpits. One or two knots at each end are for keeping hold of...
    
    
• Rope jumping
• Sports acrobatics
• Trampolining
  Trampolining
  Trampolining is a competitive Olympic sport in which gymnasts perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. These can include simple jumps in the pike, tuck or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward or backward somersaults and twists....
  
  
• Trapeze
  Trapeze
  A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances...
  
  
  • Flying trapeze
    Flying Trapeze
    The flying trapeze is a specific form of the trapeze in which a performer jumps from a platform with the trapeze so that gravity makes the trapeze swing....
    
    
  • Static trapeze
    Static trapeze
    Static trapeze, also known as fixed trapeze, is a type of circus art performed on the trapeze. In contrast to the other forms of trapeze, on static trapeze the bars and ropes mainly stay in place....
    
    
• Power Tumbling
• Group Gymnastics
• Tricking
  Tricking
  Tricking is the informal name of a type of physical activity derived from the martial arts that includes techniques found in gymnastics, B-boying, and similar disciplines. Examples of incorporated techniques include the 540 kick from Taekwondo, the butterfly twist from Wushu, and the double leg...
  
  

Handball Family

• Goalball
  Goalball
  Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. It was devised by Hanz Lorenzen , and Sepp Reindle , in 1946 in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans...
  
  
• Sabaki Ball
• Tchoukball
  Tchoukball
  Tchoukball is an indoor team sport developed in the 1970s by Swiss biologist Hermann Brandt, who believed that "The objective of all physical activities is not to make champions, but make a contribution to building a harmonious society"...
  
  
• Team handball
  Team handball
  Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
  
  
  • Beach handball
    Beach handball
    Beach handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce a ball, trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to team handball, but is not played in a sports hall but on sand instead...
    
    
  • Czech handball
    Czech handball
    Czech handball is an outdoor ball game which was created in 1905 in Prague and up to this date is played. This sport is very similar to the Team handball.- History :...
    
    
  • Field handball
    Field handball
    Field handball was the original form of what is now team handball and was played at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin....
    
    
• Torball
  Torball
  Torball is a sport for the blind and visually impaired. It is played by two teams on opposite sides of an indoor playing field. Each team consists of 3 players. In the middle part of the field there are 3 cords stretched across the entire width. On each end of the playing field is a goal that also...
  
  
• Water polo
  Water polo
  Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
  
  

Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

• Beagling
  Beagling
  Beagling is the hunting of hares, rabbits, and occasionally foxes with beagles. A beagle pack is usually followed on foot. However, there is one pack of beagles in the U.S. which are distinguished as being the only hunting pack to hunt fox and be followed on horseback...
  
  
• Big game hunting
  Trophy hunting
  Trophy hunting is the selective hunting of wild game animals. Although parts of the slain animal may be kept as a hunting trophy or memorial , the carcass itself is sometimes used as food....
  
  
• Deer hunting
  Deer hunting
  Deer hunting is survival hunting or sport hunting, harvesting deer, dating back to tens of thousands of years ago. Which occurred though out Europe Asia and North America There are numerous types of deer throughout the world that are hunted.- New Zealand :...
  
  
• Fox hunting
  Fox hunting
  Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.Fox hunting originated in its current...
  
  
• Hare coursing
  Hare coursing
  Hare coursing is the pursuit of hares with greyhounds and other sighthounds, which chase the hare by sight and not by scent. It is a competitive sport, in which dogs are tested on their ability to run, overtake and turn a hare, rather than a form of hunting aiming at the capture of game. It has a...
  
  
• Wolf hunting
  Wolf hunting
  Wolf hunting is the practice of hunting grey wolves or other lupine animals. Wolves are mainly hunted for sport, for their skins, to protect livestock, and, in some rare cases, to protect humans. Wolves have been actively hunted since 12,000 to 13,000 years ago, when they first began to pose...
  
  

Kite Sports

• Kite buggy
  Kite buggy
  A kite buggy is a light, purpose-built vehicle powered by a traction kite . It is single-seated and has one steerable front wheel and two fixed rear wheels. The driver sits in the seat located in the middle of the vehicle and accelerates and slows down by applying steering manoeuvres in...
  
  
• Kite fighting
• Kite landboarding
  Kite landboarding
  Kite landboarding also known as Land kiteboarding or flyboarding, is based on the ever-growing sport of Kitesurfing, where a rider on a surf-style board is pulled over water by a kite. Kite landboarding involves the use of a mountain board or landboard, which is essentially an oversized skateboard...
  
  
• Kitesurfing
  Kitesurfing
  Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding is an adventure surface water sport that has been described as combining wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, and gymnastics into one extreme sport. Kitesurfing harnesses the power of the wind to propel a rider across the water on a small surfboard or a...
  
  
• Parasailing
  Parasailing
  Parasailing, also known as parascending, or "parakiting" is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that reminds one of a parachute, known as a parasail wing...
  
  
• Snow kiting
• Sport kite
  Sport kite
  A sport kite, also commonly known as a stunt kite, is a kite that can be maneuvred in the air.A related kit also controllable and used for recreation, but capable of generating a significant amount of pull and used for providing movement is the Power kite.-Competition:Developments in multi-line...
  
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Mixed discipline

Decathlon, Heptathlon, and the Pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five component contests that are scored together using one points system.

• Adventure racing
  Adventure racing
  Adventure racing is a combination of two or more endurance disciplines, including orienteering and/or navigation , cross-country running, mountain biking, paddling and climbing and related rope skills...
  
  
• Biathlon
  Biathlon
  Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting...
  
  
• Duathlon
  Duathlon
  Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format bearing some resemblance to triathlons. The International Triathlon Union governs the sport internationally....
  
  
• Decathlon
  Decathlon
  The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...
  
  
• Heptathlon
  Heptathlon
  A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...
  
  
• Modern pentathlon
  Modern pentathlon
  The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run...
  
  
• Pentathlon
  Pentathlon
  A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...
  
  
• Triathlon
  Triathlon
  A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...
  
  
• Crossfit
  CrossFit
  CrossFit is a strength and conditioning brand that combines weightlifting, sprinting, gymnastics, powerlifting, kettlebell training, plyometrics, rowing, and medicine ball training...
  
  

Musical Performance Sports

• Color Guard, or Flag Spinning
• Drum and Bugle Corps (Classic)
  Drum and bugle corps (classic)
  Classic drum and bugle corps are North American musical ensembles that descended from military bugle and drum units returning from World War I and succeeding wars. Traditionally, drum and bugle corps served as signaling units as early as before the American Civil War, with these signaling units...
  
  
• Drum and Bugle Corps (Modern)
  Drum and bugle corps (modern)
  A drum and bugle corps, also known as a drum corps, is a musical marching unit consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, and color guard. Typically operating as independent non-profit organizations, drum corps perform in competitions, parades, festivals, and other civic functions...
  
  
• Indoor Percussion Ensemble
  Indoor percussion ensemble
  An indoor percussion ensemble or indoor drumline consists of the marching percussion and front ensemble sections of a marching band or drum corps. The only exceptions are in concert divisions where the marching line is absent and the ensemble consists entirely of a pit...
  
  
• Competitive Marching Band
  Marching band
  Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
  
  

Orienteering family

• Geocaching
  Geocaching
  Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world....
  
  
• Orienteering
  Orienteering
  Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...
  
  
• Rogaining
  Rogaining
  Rogaining is a sport of long distance cross-country navigation, involving both route planning and navigation between checkpoints using a variety of map types. In a rogaine, teams of 2-5 people choose which checkpoints to visit within a time limit with the intent of maximizing their score...
  
  
• Letterboxing
  Letterboxing
  Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art, and puzzle solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Individual...
  
  
• Waymarking
  Waymarking
  Waymarking is an activity where people locate and log interesting locations around the world, usually with a GPS receiver and a digital camera. Waymarking differs from geocaching in that there is no physical container to locate at the given coordinates. Waymarking identifies points of interest for...
  
  

Kayaking

• Creeking
  Creeking
  -Creeking:Creeking refers to a branch of canoeing and kayaking that involves descending very steep low-volume whitewater. It is usually performed in specialized canoes and kayaks specifically designed to withstand the extreme whitewater environment in which the activity occurs...
  
  
• Flyak
  Flyak
  The Flyak is a hydrofoil adaptation to the conventional kayak. It uses twin hydrofoils designed to raise the hull out of the water to increase the speed. Speeds of up to 27.2 km/h can be achieved on calm water....
  
  
• Freeboating
  Freeboating
  Freeboating is a branch of whitewater kayaking that combines playboating and creeking. Freeboating tricks usually originate in holes/waves and then are adapted to rapids and waterfalls. An example of a freeboating trick is the Hail Mary...
  
  
• Royak
  Royak
  A Royak is a sit-on-top Kayak that integrates the features of a surf board with a kayak.It was invented by Roy Grabenauer in 1968 after years of experimenting with a variety of designs and innovative technologies, although Tim Niemier is credited as having popularized the craft with the rotomold...
  
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• Sea kayaking
• Squirt Boating
  Squirt Boating
  Squirt boating is a form of whitewater kayaking or canoeing where the boat is designed to be as low in volume as possible while still allowing the paddler to float. Squirt boats are designed to utilize both surface and underwater currents to manoeuvre within the water...
  
  
• Surf Kayaking
  Surf Kayaking
  Surf Kayaking is the sport, technique, and equipment, used in surfing ocean waves with kayaks. Surf kayaking has many similarities to surf board surfing, but with boats designed for use in surf zones, and with a paddle...
  
  
• Whitewater kayaking
  Whitewater kayaking
  Whitewater kayaking is the sport of paddling a kayak on a moving body of water, typically a whitewater river. Whitewater kayaking can range from simple, carefree gently moving water, to demanding, dangerous whitewater. River rapids are graded like ski runs according to the difficulty, danger or...
  
  

Rafting

• Rafting
  Rafting
  Rafting or white water rafting is a challenging recreational outdoor activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on white water or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this...
  
  
• White water rafting
  Rafting
  Rafting or white water rafting is a challenging recreational outdoor activity using an inflatable raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on white water or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this...
  
  

Rowing

• Rowing (sport)
  Rowing (sport)
  Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
  
  
• Gig racing
• Coastal and ocean rowing
  Coastal and ocean rowing
  Coastal and offshore rowing is a type of rowing performed at sea. Due to the harsher conditions encountered, the boats are wider and more robust than those used on rivers and lakes.-International competition:...
  
  
  • Surfboat
    Surfboat
    A surfboat is an oar-driven boat designed to enter the ocean from the beach in heavy surf or severe waves. It is often used in lifesaving or rescue missions where the most expedient access to victims is directly from the beach.-Construction:...
    
    
• Dragon boat racing
  Dragon boat
  A dragon boat is a human-powered watercraft traditionally made, in the Pearl River delta region of southern China - Guangdong Province, of teak wood to various designs and sizes. In other parts of China different woods are used to build these traditional watercraft...
  
  
• Single scull
  Single scull
  A single scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for a single person who propels the boat with two oars, one in each hand....
  
  

Pilota family

• American handball
  American handball
  American handball is a sport in which players hit a small rubber ball against a wall using their hands.- History :...
  
  
• Australian Handball
  Australian handball
  Australian Handball is a sport where players hit a ball against one or more walls.-Play:Australian handball is similar to squash played without a racquet. The ball is served such that it makes direct contact with the front wall without having bounced on the ground. It must then be returned...
  
  
• Basque Pelota
• Fives
  Fives
  Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.-Background:...
  
  
  • Eton Fives
    Eton Fives
    Eton Fives, one derivative of the British game of Fives, is a hand-ball game, similar to Rugby Fives, played as doubles in a three-sided court. The object is to force the other team to fail to hit the ball 'up' off the front wall, using any variety of wall or ledge combinations as long as the ball...
    
    
  • Rugby Fives
    Rugby Fives
    Rugby Fives is a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with Winchester Fives and Eton Fives....
    
    
• Frisian handball
  Frisian handball
  Frisian handball is a traditional Frisian sport, related to American handball and fives, that is most commonly practiced by people from the northern Dutch province of Friesland . It is believed to be one of the oldest ballgames and was an unofficial Demonstration sport at the 1928 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Four square
  Four square
  Four square, also known as squareball, boxball, and in Canada, champ, is a ball game played among four individuals on a square court divided into quadrants...
  
  
• Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  
• Jeu de paume
  Jeu de paume
  Jeu de paume is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, though these were eventually introduced. It is a former Olympic sport, and has the oldest ongoing annual world championship in sport, first established over 250 years ago...
  
  
• Palla
  Palla
  thumb|250px|"Palla eh!" game in [[Vetulonia]], 2001Palla is a traditional Tuscan ball game played in towns between Siena and Grosseto. It is also called palla EH! because players call out eh! before serving.Small hand-made balls contain a lead pellet wrapped in rubber and wool with a leather cover...
  
  
• Valencian pilota
  Valencian pilota
  Valencian pilota is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Community. Its origins are not known, but seems to be related to the French Jeu de paume....
  
  

Racquet (or racket) sports

Sports where a player use a racquet

Racquet

A racquet or racket is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton...

 (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects.

• Badminton
  Badminton
  Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
  
  
• Ball badminton
  Ball badminton
  Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the...
  
  
• Frontenis
  Frontenis
  Frontenis is a Basque pelota speciality that is played in a 30 meters pelota court using rackets...
  
  
• Jai Alai
  Jai alai
  Jai alai is a sport involving a ball bounced off a walled space. It is a variety of Basque Pelota. The term, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton where the sport is played...
  
  
• Matkot
  Matkot
  Matkot is a popular paddle ball game in Israel similar to beach tennis, often referred to as the country's national sport.Matkot is a non-competitive beach game in which two or more players hit a small ball back and forth using paddles...
  
  
• Padel tennis
  Padel Tennis
  Padel tennis is a racquet sport played extensively in Spain and Latin America.Padel is typically played in doubles on an enclosed court about half the size of a tennis court...
  
  
• Paddle tennis
  Paddle tennis
  Paddle tennis is a game adapted from tennis and played for over a century. Compared to tennis, the court is smaller and has no doubles lanes, and the net is lower. Paddle tennis is played with a solid paddle as opposed to a strung racquet, and a depressurized tennis ball is used along with an...
  
  
• Paddleball
• Pelota mixteca
  Pelota mixteca
  Pelota mixteca is a team sport similar to a net-less tennis game. The players wear sturdy, elaborately decorated gloves affixed to a heavy flat striking surface, using them to strike a small solid ball...
  
  
• Pickleball
  Pickleball
  Pickleball is a racquet sport which combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis. The sport is played on a court with the same dimensions as a doubles badminton court. The net is similar to a tennis net, but is mounted two inches lower...
  
  
• Racquetball
  Racquetball
  For other sports often called "paddleball", see Paddleball .Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court...
  
  
• Racquets
  Racquets (sport)
  Rackets or Racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada...
  
  
• Racketlon
  Racketlon
  Racketlon is a racquet-sport cousin of the triathlon and decathlon. It combines the four most popular racquetsports in a single match ....
  
  
• Rapid Ball
  Rapid Ball
  Rapid ball or rapid-ball is a relatively new sport derived from squash and raquetball. It was invented by Peter V. Haighton in order to create a game similar to squash, but less taxing on one's legs and joints...
  
  
• Real tennis
  Real tennis
  Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original indoor racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended...
  
  
• Soft tennis
  Soft Tennis
  Soft tennis is a racket game played on a court of two halves, separated by a net. Like regular tennis, it is played by individuals or pairs , whose object is to hit the ball over the net, landing within the confines of the court, with the aim of preventing one's opponent from being able to hit it...
  
  
• Speedball
  Speedball (sport)
  Speedball is a quick, fast paced sport that is simple to teach and combines many aspects of other sports. The goal of the game is throw, kick, or head the ball into a goal. It is played with two teams of five, each with one goalkeeper on a basketball court.- History :The game was invented by Elmer...
  
  
• Speed-ball
  Speed-ball
  Speed-Ball is a racquet sport invented in Egypt in 1961 by Mohamed Lotfy for the training of beginner tennis players. Today it is a sport in its own right, enjoying popularity not only in Egypt but in other countries...
  
  
• Speedminton
• Squash
  Squash (sport)
  Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
  
  
• Squash tennis
  Squash tennis
  Squash tennis is an American variant of squash racquets, but played with a ball and racquets that are closer to the equipment used for lawn tennis, and with somewhat different rules. For younger players the game offers the complexity of squash racquets and the speed of racquetball...
  
  
• Stické
  Stické
  Stické is a racquet sport invented in the late 19th century merging aspects of real tennis, racquets, and lawn tennis...
  
  
• Table tennis
  Table tennis
  Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
  
  
• Tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
  
• Xare
  Xare
  Xare is racquet sport, a form of Basque pelota.-Ball:The ball is not exactly struck, nor is it quite caught—the effect is somewhere in between. The ball is very hard, and covered by parchment.-Court:...
  
  

Remote control

• Model Aerobatics
  Aerobatics (radio-controlled aircraft)
  -Inside loops:Due to its simplicity, the inside loop is among the first aerobatic maneuvers a pilot learns. It is named after a 360 degree circle with the pilot on the inside of the loop...
  
  
• RC Racing
• Robot combat
  Robot combat
  Robot combat is a hobby/sport in which two or more custom-built machines use varied methods of destroying or disabling the other. As of today, in most cases these machines are remote-controlled vehicles rather than autonomous robots, although there are exceptions, particularly in the field of...
  
  

Running

• Endurance
  Endurance
  Endurance is the ability for a human or animal to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue. In humans, it is usually used in aerobic or anaerobic exercise...
  
  
  • Cross-country running
  • Half marathon
    Half marathon
    A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...
    
    
  • Marathon
    Marathon
    The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...
    
    
  • Sky Race
  • Tower running
    Tower running
    Tower running is a sport, which involves running up tall man-made structures. Usually the races take place on the internal staircases of skyscrapers, but the term can cover any foot race which involves a course that ascends a man-made structure....
    
    
  • Ultramarathon
    Ultramarathon
    An ultramarathon is any sporting event involving running longer than the traditional marathon length of .There are two types of ultramarathon events: those that cover a specified distance, and events that take place during specified time...
    
    
• Sprint (race)
  Sprint (race)
  Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...
  
  
• Hurdles

Sailing

• Ice yachting
  Ice yachting
  Ice yachting is the sport of sailing and racing iceboats, also called ice yachts. It is practiced in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Norway and Sweden, to some extent, and is very popular in the Netherlands and on the Gulf of Finland, but its highest development is in the United States and...
  
  
• Land sailing
  Land sailing
  Land sailing, also known as sand yachting or land yachting, is the act of moving across land in a wheeled vehicle powered by wind through the use of a sail. The term comes from analogy with sailing. Historically, land sailing was used as a mode of transportation or recreation...
  
  
• Land windsurfing
  Land windsurfing
  Land windsurfing is similar to windsurfing but performed on land. Boards with wheels and a mast base attachment are used. It is often called land boarding , streetsailing or dirt windsurfing....
  
  
• Sailing
  Sailing
  Sailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
  
  
• Windsurfing
  Windsurfing
  Windsurfing or sailboarding is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually two to four metres long, powered by the orthogonal effect of the wind on a sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating universal joint and comprises a...
  
  
• Kiteboarding
  Kitesurfing
  Kitesurfing or Kiteboarding is an adventure surface water sport that has been described as combining wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, and gymnastics into one extreme sport. Kitesurfing harnesses the power of the wind to propel a rider across the water on a small surfboard or a...
  
  
• Land Kiteboarding
• Dinghy sailing
  Dinghy sailing
  Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls:* the sails* the foils ....
  
  

Skiing

• Alpine skiing
  Alpine skiing
  Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
  
  
• Cross country skiing
• Freestyle skiing
  Freestyle skiing
  Freestyle skiing is form of skiing which used to encompass two disciplines: aerials, and moguls. Except the two disciplines mentioned earlier Freestyle Skiing now consists of Skicross, Half Pipe and Slope Style...
  
  
• Nordic combined
  Nordic combined
  The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping.- History :While Norwegian soldiers are known to have been competing in Nordic skiing since the 19th century, the first major competition in Nordic combined was held in 1892 in Oslo at the...
  
  
• Nordic skiing
  Nordic skiing
  Nordic skiing is a winter sport that encompasses all types of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski, as opposed to Alpine skiing....
  
  
• Ski jumping
  Ski jumping
  Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...
  
  
• Skijoring
  Skijoring
  Skijoring is a winter sport where a person on skis is pulled by a horse, a dog or a motor vehicle. It is derived from the Norwegian word skikjøring meaning ski driving.- Dog skijoring :...
  
  
• Ski touring
  Ski touring
  Ski touring is a form of backcountry skiing involving traveling over the winter landscape on skis under human power rather than through the assistance of ski lifts or snow vehicles. It can take place in terrain ranging from perfectly flat to extremely steep...
  
  
• Speed skiing
  Speed skiing
  Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line as quickly as possible. It is one of the fastest non-motorized sports on land. The current world record for skiing is 251.4 km/h , held by Simone Origone...
  
  
• Telemark skiing
  Telemark skiing
  Telemark skiing is a form of skiing using the Telemark turn. Unlike alpine skiing equipment, the skis used for telemarking either have a binding that only connects the boot to the ski at the toes, just as in cross-country skiing, or may be released to only connect there.Telemark turns are led with...
  
  

Sled sports

• Bobsleigh
  Bobsleigh
  Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....
  
  
• Luge
  Luge
  A Luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. Steering is done by flexing the sled's runners with the calf of each leg or exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. Racing sleds weigh 21-25 kilograms for singles and 25-30 kilograms for doubles. Luge...
  
  
• Skibobbing
  Skibobbing
  Skibobbing is a winter sport involving a bicycle-type frame attached to skis instead of wheels. Although the original idea for a bicycle with skis was patented as early as 1892, and skibobbing had been a form of transportation in the Alps, it wasn't until 1954 that the first international race...
  
  
• Skeleton
  Skeleton (sport)
  Skeleton is a fast winter sliding sport in which an individual person rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face down, during which athletes experience forces up to 5g. It originated in St. Moritz, Switzerland as a spin-off from the popular British sport of Cresta Sledding...
  
  
• Toboggan
  Toboggan
  A toboggan is a simple sled which is a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people down a hill or other slope for recreation. Designs vary from simple, traditional models to modern engineered composites...
  
  

Shooting sports

Sports using a firearm

Firearm

A firearm is a weapon that launches one, or many, projectile at high velocity through confined burning of a propellant. This subsonic burning process is technically known as deflagration, as opposed to supersonic combustion known as a detonation. In older firearms, the propellant was typically...

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• Clay pigeon shooting
  Clay pigeon shooting
  Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, and formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting at special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets, with a shotgun or any type of firearm....
  
  
  • Skeet shooting
    Skeet shooting
    Skeet shooting is one of the three major types of competitive shotgun target shooting sports . There are several types of skeet, including one with Olympic status , and many with only national recognition.- General principles :Skeet is a recreational and competitive activity where...
    
    
  • Trap shooting
    Trap shooting
    Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting . The others are skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic trap, Double trap , Down-The-Line, and Nordic trap. American trap is most popular in the United States and Canada...
    
    
  • Sporting clays
    Sporting Clays
    Sporting clays is a form of clay pigeon shooting, often described as "golf with a shotgun" because a typical course includes from 10 to 15 different shooting stations laid out over natural terrain...
    
    
• Target shooting
  • Field target
    Field Target
    Field Target is an outdoor air gun discipline originating in the United Kingdom, in the early 1980s, but gaining popularity worldwide.-UK Rules:...
    
    
  • Fullbore target rifle
    Fullbore target rifle
    Fullbore target rifle is a distinctively British and Commonwealth of Nations shooting discipline that evolved from Service rifle shooting in the late 1860s, and is governed in the UK by the rules of the National Rifle Association, UK...
    
    
  • High Power Rifle
    High Power Rifle
    High Power Rifle is a specific format of competitive shooting popular in the United States. It is many times referred to as "Across the Course" and sometimes as 'traditional' High Power. In service rifle matches, a competitor can only use an M-1 Garand style weapon, a M1A style weapon, or an...
    
    
  • Benchrest shooting
    Benchrest shooting
    Benchrest shooting is a sport in which very accurate and precise rifles are shot at paper targets from a rest or bench from a sitting position. Benchrest shooters are notoriously detail-oriented and constantly trying to further the accuracy potential of the rifle through experimentation. Nearly...
    
    
  • Military Service Rifle
  • Metallic silhouette
    Metallic silhouette
    Metallic silhouette shooting is a group of target shooting disciplines that involves shooting at metal cutouts representing game animals at varying distances. Metallic silhouette shooting can be done with airguns, black powder firearms, modern handguns, or modern rifles...
    
    
  • Practical shooting
    Practical shooting
    Practical shooting is a sport which challenges an individual's ability to shoot rapidly and accurately with a full-power handgun, rifle, or shotgun. To do this, shooters take on obstacle-laden shooting courses called stages, some requiring many shots to complete, and others just a few...
    
    

Stick and Ball Games

• Cammag
  Cammag
  Cammag is a team sport originating on the Isle of Man. It is closely related to the Scottish game of shinty and is similar to the Irish hurling...
  
  
• Composite rules shinty-hurling
  Composite rules shinty-hurling
  Composite rules shinty-hurling , sometimes known simply as shinty-hurling) is a hybrid sport which was developed to facilitate international matches between shinty players and hurling players....
  
  
• Hockey
  Hockey
  Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
  
  
  • Ball hockey
    Ball hockey
    Ball hockey is a team sport and a variation of the sports of ice hockey and street hockey, where the game is played on foot in which players use sticks to direct a ball into their opposing team's net. When that occurs it is referred to as a "goal". At the end of the time allotted for the game the...
    
    
  • Bandy
    Bandy
    Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...
    
    
    • Rink bandy
  • Broomball
    Broomball
    Broomball is a recreational ice game originating in Canada and played around the world. It is played in a hockey rink, either indoors or outdoors, depending on climate and location. Broomball is popular in the Canadian province of Manitoba, where Glenella is the Broomball Capital of the World...
    
    
    • Moscow broomball
      Moscow broomball
      Moscow broomball is a sport similar to ice-hockey played by non-Russians in Moscow. It is known by its players simply as "broomball", but is called Moscow broomball elsewhere to distinguish it from the similar sport of the same name played in Canada....
      
      
  • Field Hockey
    Field hockey
    Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
    
    
    • Indoor field hockey
      Indoor field hockey
      Indoor field hockey is an indoor variant of "traditional" outdoor field hockey. It is not to be confused with other indoor hockey variants such as rink hockey or floorball....
      
      
  • Floorball
    Floorball
    Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s in Sweden. Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The game is played...
    
    
  • Ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
    
    
    
    • Ringette
      Ringette
      Ringette is a team sport played on an ice surface. Played primarily by females, Ringette requires the use of straight sticks to control a rubber ring; with the objective of the game being to score goals by shooting the ring into the opponent's net. It was introduced by Sam Jacks in North Bay,...
      
      
    • Pond hockey
      Pond hockey
      Pond hockey is a form of ice hockey very similar in its object and appearance to traditional ice hockey, but far simpler and designed to be played on part of a natural frozen body of water...
      
      
    • Power hockey
  • Ringette
    Ringette
    Ringette is a team sport played on an ice surface. Played primarily by females, Ringette requires the use of straight sticks to control a rubber ring; with the objective of the game being to score goals by shooting the ring into the opponent's net. It was introduced by Sam Jacks in North Bay,...
    
    
  • Roller hockey
    Roller hockey
    Roller Hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using skates with wheels. The term "Roller Hockey" is often used interchangeably to refer to two variant forms chiefly differentiated by the type of skate used. There is traditional "Roller Hockey," played with quad roller skates, and...
    
    
    • Inline hockey
      Inline hockey
      Inline hockey, often referred to as roller hockey in the United States, is a sport similar to ice hockey but played with inline skates. Like its parent sport, skaters on two teams use hockey sticks to direct a disk-shaped puck into the opponent's goal; however, various details of the game, such as...
      
      
    • Roller hockey (Quad)
      Roller hockey (Quad)
      Roller Hockey is a team sport that enjoys significant popularity in a number of Latin countries. Depending on territories, it is also known as Hóquei em Patins, International Style Ball hockey, Rink Hockey or Hardball Hockey. Roller Hockey was a demonstration rollersport in the 1992 Summer...
      
      
    • Skater hockey
      Skater hockey
      Skater hockey is team sport played with a plastic ball. The game is played using inline roller skates or quad skates. It is different to Inline Hockey....
      
      
  • Rossall Hockey
    Rossall Hockey
    Rossall Hockey or RossHockey is a unique form of hockey played only at Rossall School, in Fleetwood, on the Fylde coast, Lancashire, England. The game is unique to Rossall School and is played on the beach next to the school during the Lent term only, with the pitch being marked by dragging the...
    
    
  • Sledge hockey
  • Street hockey
    Street hockey
    Street hockey is a variation of the sport of ice hockey where the game is played on foot or with inline skates or roller skates. The object of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by shooting a ball or puck into the opposing team's net...
    
    
  • Underwater hockey
    Underwater hockey
    Underwater hockey is a global non-contact sport in which two teams compete to maneuver a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into goals.-Play:...
    
    
    • Underwater ice hockey
      Underwater ice hockey
      Underwater ice hockey is a minor extreme sport that is a variant of ice hockey. It is played upside-down underneath frozen pools or ponds. Participants wear wetsuits and flippers, and use the underside of the frozen surface as the playing area for a floating puck...
      
      
  • Unicycle hockey
    Unicycle hockey
    Unicycle hockey is a team sport, similar to roller or inline hockey, except that each player must be mounted on a unicycle to play the ball...
    
    
• Hurling
  Hurling
  Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
  
  
  • Camogie
    Camogie
    Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
    
    
• Lacrosse
  Lacrosse
  Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
  
  
  • Box lacrosse
    Box lacrosse
    Box lacrosse, also known as indoor lacrosse and sometimes shortened to boxla, LAX or simply box, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America. The game originated in Canada, where it is the most popular version of the game played in contrast to the traditional field lacrosse game...
    
    
  • Field lacrosse
    Field lacrosse
    Field lacrosse, sometimes referred to as the "fastest sport on two feet," is a full contact outdoor men's sport played with ten players on each team. The sport originated among Native Americans, and the modern rules of field lacrosse were initially codified by Canadian William George Beers in 1867....
    
    
  • Women's lacrosse
    Women's lacrosse
    Women's lacrosse, sometimes shortened to wlax or lax, is a sport played with twelve players on each team. Originally played by the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first tribe to play it was the Hauser tribe, of the Great Plains. The modern women's game was introduced in 1890 at the St...
    
    
  • Intercrosse
    Intercrosse
    Intercrosse is a non-contact form of lacrosse with a standardized set of rules using intercrosse equipment...
    
    
• Polo
  Polo
  Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
  
  
  
  • Bicycle polo
  • Canoe polo
    Canoe polo
    Canoe Polo is a competitive ball sport played on water, in a defined "field", between two teams of 5 players, each in a kayak...
    
    
  • Cowboy polo
    Cowboy polo
    Cowboy polo is a variation of polo played mostly in the western United States. Like regular polo, it is played in chukkars with two teams on horses who use mallets to hit a ball through a goal...
    
    
  • Elephant polo
    Elephant polo
    Elephant polo is a variant of polo played whilst riding elephants. It is played in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Rajasthan , and Thailand. Equipment consists of a standard polo ball and six to nine foot cane sticks with a polo mallet head on the end. The pitch is three-quarters of the length of a standard...
    
    
  • Horse polo
  • Segway polo
    Segway Polo
    Segway polo is a team sport which started to gain some measure of popularity after being played by members of the Bay Area Segway Enthusiasts Group in 2004. The Bay Area SEG was not the first to play polo on a Segway HT; a team sponsored by Mobile Entertainment played in the Hubert H...
    
    
  • Yak polo
    Yak polo
    Yak polo is a Mongolian variant of the sport polo. It is played on yaks instead of on horseback.Originally invented in the early 2000s as a tourist attraction, the sport is as of 2006 reported to have attracted a modest following in Mongolia...
    
    
• Pelota purépecha
• Polocrosse
  Polocrosse
  Polocrosse it is a team sport that is played all over the world. It is a combination of polo and lacrosse. It is played outside, on a field , on horseback. Each rider uses a cane stick to which is attached a racquet head with a loose, thread net, in which the ball is carried. The ball is made of...
  
  
• Shinty
  Shinty
  Shinty is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands, and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread, being once competitively played on a widespread basis in England and other areas in the...
  
  
• Spongee
  Spongee
  "Spongee" or Sponge Hockey is a cult sport played almost exclusively in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada by thousands of players in dozens of leagues. It gets its name from the puck that is used: instead of the hard vulcanized rubber puck that is used in regular hockey, a soft sponge puck is used.-...
  
  

Street Stunts

• Free running
  Free running
  Freerunning is a form of urban acrobatics in which participants, known as freerunners , use the city and rural landscape to perform movements through its structures...
  
  
• Freestyle Football
  Freestyle Football
  Freestyle football, also known as freestyle soccer in North America, is the art of expressing yourself with a football, while performing various tricks with any part of the body...
  
  
• Parkour
  Parkour
  Parkour is a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency. Originally developed in France, the main purpose of the discipline is to teach participants how to move through their environment by vaulting, rolling, running, climbing and jumping...
  
  
• Tricking
  Tricking
  Tricking is the informal name of a type of physical activity derived from the martial arts that includes techniques found in gymnastics, B-boying, and similar disciplines. Examples of incorporated techniques include the 540 kick from Taekwondo, the butterfly twist from Wushu, and the double leg...
  
  
• Powerbocking

Tag games

• British bulldogs
  British Bulldogs (game)
  British bulldogs is a tag-based game, of which Red Rover and Cocky Laura are descendants, played mainly in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other Commonwealth countries by children at school. It was originated in Great Britain...
  
   (American Eagle)
• Capture the flag
  Capture the flag
  Capture the Flag is a traditional outdoor sport generally played by children, where two teams each have a flag and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base," and bring it safely back to their own base...
  
  
• Hana Ichi Monme
• Hide and seek
  Hide and seek
  Hide-and-seek or hide-and-go-seek is a variant of the game tag, in which a number of players conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers.-Variants:Numerous variants of the game can be found around the world...
  
  
• Kabaddi
  Kabaddi
  Kabaddi is a South Asian team sport...
  
  
• Kho kho
  Kho Kho
  Kho Kho is an Indian and Pakistani sport played by teams of twelve players who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team, only 9 players of the team enter the field...
  
  
• Kick the can
  Kick the can
  Tip the can is a children's game related to tag, hide and seek, and capture the flag which can be played outdoors, with as many as three to a few dozen players...
  
  
• Oztag
• Red rover
  Red Rover
  Red Rover is an outdoor game played primarily by children on playgrounds. This 19th century children's group game is thought to have originated in Britain and then spread to Australia, Canada and the United States.Røver is a Norwegian word for "pirate", so perhaps the...
  
  
• Tag
  Tag (game)
  Tag is a playground game played worldwide that involves one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to tag or touch them, usually with their fingers. There are many variations...
  
  

Walking

• Airolo-Chasso
• Hiking
  Hiking
  Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain. People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking...
  
  
• Backpacking (wilderness)
  Backpacking (wilderness)
  Backpacking combines the activities of hiking and camping for an overnight stay in backcountry wilderness...
  
  
• Race Walking
  Race walking
  Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance athletic event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times...
  
  
• Bushwhacking

Wall-and-ball

Games involving opponents hitting a ball against a wall/walls using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded.

• American handball
  American handball
  American handball is a sport in which players hit a small rubber ball against a wall using their hands.- History :...
  
  
• Australian handball
  Australian handball
  Australian Handball is a sport where players hit a ball against one or more walls.-Play:Australian handball is similar to squash played without a racquet. The ball is served such that it makes direct contact with the front wall without having bounced on the ground. It must then be returned...
  
  
• Basque pelota
• Butts Up
  Butts Up
  Butts Up is a North American elementary school children’s playground game originating in the 1950s or earlier...
  
  
• Chinese handball
  Chinese handball
  Chinese handball , is a form of American handball popular on the streets of New York City, Philadelphia, and Bridgewater, NJ during the 1960s,'70s, and '80s and is still played today, mostly in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Diego. Different variations are played around the world...
  
  
• Fives
  Fives
  Fives is a British sport believed to derive from the same origins as many racquet sports. In fives, a ball is propelled against the walls of a special court using gloved or bare hands as though they were a racquet.-Background:...
  
  
• Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball
  Gaelic handball is a sport similar to Basque pelota, racquetball, squash and American handball . It is one of the four Gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association...
  
  
• International fronton
  International fronton
  The International fronton is an indirect style ball game created for to come together some varieties and be played in the Handball International Championships.- Courtfield :...
  
  
• Jorkyball
  Jorkyball
  Jorkyball is a modified form of 2 on 2 soccer taking influence from squash and football. It is played in a 10m x 5m cage on artificial turf with the possibility of using the walls to place the ball. As in football it is played only with the feet and use of hands is forbidden. The objective is to...
  
  
• Racquetball
  Racquetball
  For other sports often called "paddleball", see Paddleball .Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court...
  
  
• Rapid ball
  Rapid Ball
  Rapid ball or rapid-ball is a relatively new sport derived from squash and raquetball. It was invented by Peter V. Haighton in order to create a game similar to squash, but less taxing on one's legs and joints...
  
  
• Squash
  Squash (sport)
  Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
  
  
• Squash tennis
  Squash tennis
  Squash tennis is an American variant of squash racquets, but played with a ball and racquets that are closer to the equipment used for lawn tennis, and with somewhat different rules. For younger players the game offers the complexity of squash racquets and the speed of racquetball...
  
  
• Suicide (game)
  Suicide (game)
  Suicide , or otherwise referred to as "wall-ball", is a game typically played by children and teenagers. The rules vary widely from place to place; those given below are not necessarily a "standard" form of the rules.-Setup:...
  
  
• Valencian frontó
  Valencian frontó
  Frontó is a modified Valencian pilota version of the original Basque Pelota game. The name frontó refers both to the game and the playing area...
  
  
• Wallball
  Wallball
  Another rather unknown variation of the game butts up, aces-kings-queens, american handball and Chinese handball is "wallball". Created in the south-west of Western Australia, wallball requires the ball to be hit to the floor before hitting the wall...
  
  
• Wallyball
  Wallyball
  Wallyball is a fast-paced sport that was created by Bill Dejonghe at The Calabasas Racquetball Club , in 1979 . The idea was an attempt to help bring more business into the club in the summer months The club pro Joe Garcia then took the idea mainstream. However, the sport roots go back to as early...
  
  

Water sports

Ball Sports

• Underwater football
  Underwater Football
  Underwater football is a two-team sport that shares common elements of underwater hockey and underwater rugby. As with both of those games, it is played in a swimming pool with snorkeling equipment ....
  
  
• Underwater rugby
  Underwater rugby
  Underwater rugby is a sport that has its origin in the physical fitness training of German diving clubs and has little in common with rugby football except for the name....
  
  
• Underwater Soccer
• Water Polo
  Water polo
  Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
  
  
• Canoe Polo
  Canoe polo
  Canoe Polo is a competitive ball sport played on water, in a defined "field", between two teams of 5 players, each in a kayak...
  
  

Competitive Swimming

• Backstroke
  Backstroke
  The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...
  
  
• Breaststroke
  Breaststroke
  The breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on his or her chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to its stability and the ability to keep the head out of the water a large portion of the time. In most swimming classes, beginners learn...
  
  
• Butterfly stroke
  Butterfly stroke
  The butterfly is a swimming stroke swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously. The butterfly kick was developed separately, and is also known as the "dolphin kick"...
  
  
• Freestyle swimming
  Freestyle swimming
  Freestyle is an unregulated swimming style used in swimming competitions according to the rules of FINA. The front crawl stroke is almost universally used during a freestyle race, as this style is generally the fastest...
  
  
• Individual Medley
• Synchronized swimming
  Synchronized swimming
  Synchronized swImming is a hybrid form of swimming, dance and gymnastics, consisting of swimmers performing a synchronized routine of elaborate moves in the water, accompanied by music....
  
  
• Medley relay
  Medley swimming
  Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley or by four swimmers as a medley relay...
  
  
• Finswimming
  Finswimming
  Finswimming is the progression of a swimmer using monofins or normal swimfins either on the water surface or underwater, using only muscle strength. It is a discipline of underwater sports. The competition distances are same as for swimming...
  
  

Subsurface and recreational

• Freediving
• Scuba Diving
  Scuba diving
  Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....
  
  
• Snorkelling
• Immersion finswimming
• Underwater orientation

Weightlifting

• Andartza
• Clean and jerk
  Clean and jerk
  The clean and jerk is one of the two Olympic weightlifting events .The clean portion of the lift refers to the lifter explosively pulling the weight from the floor to a racked position across deltoids and clavicles...
  
  
• Deadlift
  Deadlift
  The deadlift is a weight training exercise where a loaded barbell is lifted off the ground from a stabilized, bent over position. It is one of the three canonical powerlifting exercises, along with the squat and bench press.-Overview:...
  
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• Benchpress
• Powerlifting
  Powerlifting
  Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
  
  
• Snatch
  Snatch (weightlifting)
  The snatch is one of the two olympic weightlifting events .The essence of the event is to lift a barbell from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement. The barbell is pulled as high as the lifter can manage at which point the barbell is flipped overhead...
  
  
• Squat (exercise)
  Squat (exercise)
  In strength training, the squat is a compound, full body exercise that trains primarily the muscles of the thighs, hips and buttocks, quads , hamstrings, as well as strengthening the bones, ligaments and insertion of the tendons throughout the lower body...
  
  
• Weightlifting

Mind sports

Requiring little or no physical exertion or agility mind sports are often not considered true sports. Some mind sports are recognised by sporting federations.

The following list is intended to represent anything that is likely to be referred to as a mind sport, not to argue their validity as sports. (See also List of world championships in mind sports)

chess

Speedcubing

• Speedcubing
  Speedcubing
  Speedcubing is the activity of solving a Rubik's Cube or related puzzle as quickly as possible...
  
  
  • 2x2x2
    Pocket Cube
    The Pocket Cube is the 2×2×2 equivalent of a Rubik's Cube. The cube consists of 8 pieces, all corners.-Permutations:...
    
    
  • 3x3x3
    Rubik's Cube
    Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik.Originally called the "Magic Cube", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that...
    
    
  • 4x4x4
  • 5x5x5
  • 6x6x6
    V-Cube 6
    The V-Cube 6 is the 6×6×6 version of Rubik's Cube. Unlike the original puzzle , it has no fixed facets: the center facets are free to move to different positions...
    
    
  • 7x7x7
    V-Cube 7
    The V-Cube 7 is the 7×7×7 version of Rubik's Cube. It was invented by Panagiotis Verdes and is produced by his company, Verdes Innovations SA. Like the 5×5×5, the V-Cube 7 has both fixed and movable center facets.- Mechanics :...
    
    
  • Fifteen puzzle

Strategy Board Games

• Abstract strategy games
• Backgammon
  Backgammon
  Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...
  
  
• Battleship
  Battleship (game)
  The game Battleship is a guessing game played by two people. It is known throughout the world as a pencil and paper game which predates World War I. It was published by Milton Bradley Company in 1931 as the pad-and-pencil game "Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy".-Description:The game is...
  
  
• Chess
  Chess
  Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
  
  
• Checkers
• Chinese Checkers
  Chinese checkers
  Chinese checkers is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners...
  
  
• Connect Four
  Connect Four
  Connect Four is a two-player game in which the players first choose a color and then take turns dropping their colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid...
  
  
• Diplomacy
  Diplomacy (game)
  Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects...
  
  
• Dominoes
  Dominoes
  Dominoes generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces. In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge...
  
  
• Draughts
  Draughts
  Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...
  
  
• Go
  Go (board game)
  Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...
  
  
• Go-Moku
• Jacquet
  Jacquet (game)
  -External links:* - includes the rules*** - includes a different set of rules...
  
  
• Mancala
  Mancala
  Mancala is a family of board games played around the world, sometimes called "sowing" games, or "count-and-capture" games, which describes the game-play. Mancala games play a role in many African and some Asian societies comparable to that of chess in the West, or the game of Go in Eastern Asia...
  
  
• Mahjong
  Mahjong
  Mahjong, sometimes spelled Mah Jongg, is a game that originated in China, commonly played by four players...
  
  
• Reversi
  Reversi
  Reversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...
  
   (Othello)
• Sogo (Score four)
• Stratego
  Stratego
  Stratego is a board game featuring a 10×10 square board and two players with 40 pieces each. Pieces represent individual officers and soldiers in an army. The objective of the game is to either find and capture the opponent's Flag or to capture so many of the opponent's pieces that he/she cannot...
  
  

Auto racing

• 4x4
• Aquakart
• Autocross
  Autocross
  Autocross is a form of motorsports that emphasizes safe competition and active participation. An autocross is a timed competition where drivers navigate one at a time through a defined course on either sealed or unsealed surfaces...
  
  
• Autograss
  Autograss
  Autograss racing is Britain’s most popular form of amateur motor racing. It takes place at venues throughout England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland....
  
  
• Banger racing
  Banger racing
  Banger Racing is a tarmac or dirt track racing type of motorsport event popularised in both North America and Europe and especially United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands in which drivers of old vehicles race against one another around a race track and the race is...
  
  
• Board track racing
  Board track racing
  Board track, or motordrome, racing was a type of motorsport popular in the United States between the second and third decades of the 20th century. Competition was conducted on oval race courses with surfaces composed of wooden planks...
  
  
• Combine racing
• Demolition derby
  Demolition derby
  Demolition derby is a motorsport usually presented at county fairs and festivals. While rules vary from event to event, the typical demolition derby event consists of five or more drivers competing by deliberately ramming their vehicles into one another...
  
  
• Desert racing
  Desert racing
  Desert racing is the act of racing through the desert in a 2 or 4 wheeled off-road vehicle. Races, which generally consist of two or more loops around a course covering up to 40 miles, can take the form of Hare and Hound or Hare scramble style events, and are often laid out over a long and harsh...
  
  
• Dirt track racing
  Dirt track racing
  Dirt track racing is a type of auto racing performed on oval tracks. It began in the United States before World War I and became widespread during the 1920s and 30s. Two different types of racecars predominated—open wheel racers in the Northeast and West and stock cars in the South...
  
  
• Drag racing
  Drag racing
  Drag racing is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete two at a time to be the first to cross a set finish line, from a standing start, in a straight line, over a measured distance, most commonly a ¼-mile straight track....
  
  
• Drifting
  Drifting (motorsport)
  Drifting refers to a driving technique and to a motorsport where the driver intentionally over steers, causing loss of traction in the rear wheels through turns, while maintaining vehicle control and a high exit speed...
  
  
• Extreme off-road
• Folkrace
  Folkrace
  Folkrace is a popular, inexpensive, and entry-level form of Swedish rallycross that originally came from Finland, where it was called Jokamiesluokka . The sport also exists in Norway and Denmark, where it is known as Bilcross and Folkerace respectively.The races are run on special gravel or tarmac...
  
  
• Formula racing
  Formula racing
  Formula racing is a term that refers to various forms of open wheeled single seater motorsport. Its origin lies in the nomenclature that was adopted by the FIA for all of its post-World War II single seater regulations, or formulae. The best known of these formulæ are Formula One, Formula Two, and...
  
  
• Formula Libre
  Formula Libre
  Formula Libre is a form of automobile racing allowing a wide variety of types, ages and makes of purpose-built racing cars to compete "head to head". This can make for some interesting matchups, and provides the opportunity for some compelling driving performances against superior machinery...
  
  
• Formula Student
  Formula Student
  Formula Student is a student engineering competition held annually in the UK. Student teams from around the world design, build, test, and race a small-scale formula style racing car. The cars are judged on a number of criteria as listed below...
  
  
• Hillclimbing
  Hillclimbing
  Hillclimbing is a branch of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course....
  
  
• Ice racing
  Ice racing
  Ice racing is a form of racing that uses cars, motorcycles, snowmobiles, All-terrain vehicles, or other motorized vehicles. Ice racing takes place on frozen lakes or rivers, or on carefully groomed frozen lots...
  
  
• Kart racing
  Kart racing
  Kart racing or karting is a variant of open-wheel motorsport with small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits...
  
  
• Land speed records
• Legends car racing
• Midget car racing
  Midget car racing
  Midget cars, also Speedcars in Australia, are very small race cars with a very high power-to-weight ratio and typically use four-cylinder engines.-Cars:Typically, these cars have 300 to 400 horsepower and weigh...
  
  
• Monster truck
  Monster truck
  A monster truck is a pickup truck, typically styled after pickup trucks' bodies, modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension...
  
  
• Mud bogging
  Mud bogging
  Mud bogging is a form of off-road motorsport popular in Canada and the United States in which the goal is to drive a vehicle through a pit of mud of a set length...
  
  
• NASCAR
  NASCAR
  The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
  
  
• Off-road racing
  Off-road racing
  Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles compete in races through off-road environments.-North America:...
  
  
• Pickup truck racing
  Pickup truck racing
  Pickup truck racing is a form of auto racing which involves modified versions of pickup trucks on racing circuits, mostly oval tracks. Race pickup trucks are mechanically similar to coupé-shaped stock cars, with the main difference being the more boxy shape of the cab, which does not give as good...
  
  
• Production car racing
  Production car racing
  Production car racing , Showroom stock racing Street Stock, Pure Stock, or U-Car racing includes all categories of auto racing where unmodified cars race each other, outright and also in classes. All cars usually have a protective roll cage and run race tires...
  
  
• Race of Champions
  Race of Champions
  The Race of Champions is an international motorsport event held at the end of each year, featuring some of the world's best racing and rally drivers...
  
  
• Rally raid
  Rally raid
  Rally raid, also known as cross country rallying is a form of long distance off-road racing that takes place over several days. Each day may require traveling up to . The length of the event can be 3–15 days...
  
  
• Rallycross
  Rallycross
  Rallycross is a form of sprint style automobile racing, held on a closed mixed-surface racing circuit, with modified production or specially built road cars, similar to the World Rally Cars, although usually with about stronger engines, due to e.g. their 45 mm turbo restrictor plates. It is...
  
  
• Rallying
  Rallying
  Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...
  
  
• Regularity rally
  Regularity rally
  Regularity rallying, also known as TSD rallying , is a form of motor sport usually conducted on public roads but sometimes including off-road and track sections. The object of these rallies is to maintain precise times and precise average speeds on various segments of a predefined route...
  
  
• Road racing
  Road racing
  Road racing is a general term for most forms of motor racing held on paved, purpose-built race tracks , as opposed to oval tracks and off-road racing...
  
  
• Road crawling
• Rock racing
  Rock Racing
  Rock Racing is a cycling team founded in 2007 by Michael Ball. The team is affiliated with Ball's Rock & Republic clothing. Rock Racing received media attention for hiring outcasts in the sport, including those tainted by performance enhancing drug scandals...
  
  
• Sand drags
• Short track motor racing
  Short track motor racing
  In North American auto racing, particularly with regard to NASCAR, a short track is a racetrack of less than one mile in length. Short track racing, often associated with fairgrounds and similar venues, is where stock car racing first got off the back roads and into organized and regulated...
  
  
• Slalom
  Autocross
  Autocross is a form of motorsports that emphasizes safe competition and active participation. An autocross is a timed competition where drivers navigate one at a time through a defined course on either sealed or unsealed surfaces...
  
  
• Snowmobileracing
• Sports car racing
  Sports car racing
  Sports car racing is a form of circuit auto racing with automobiles that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be purpose-built or related to road-going sports cars....
  
  
• Sprint car racing
  Sprint car racing
  Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa....
  
  
• Street racing
  Street racing
  Street racing is a form of unsanctioned and illegal motor racing which takes place on public roads. Street racing can either be spontaneous or well-planned and coordinated. Well coordinated races are planned in advance and often have people communicating via 2-way radio/citizens' band radio and...
  
  
• Stock car racing
  Stock car racing
  Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Brazil and Argentina. Traditionally, races are run on oval tracks measuring approximately in length...
  
  
• Time Attack
  Time attack
  A time attack is another term for time trial. The term is commonly used in Japan for individual time trial events for motor vehicles that involves a vehicle running around the circuit in lieu of a qualifying lap and the term is widely adopted outside the country for tuner event and...
  
  
• Tractor pulling
  Tractor pulling
  Truck and Tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a motorsport competition, popular in America, Europe , Australia and Brazil, which requires modified tractors to pull a heavy sledge along a 35ft. wide and length of 100 metre or 300ft+ track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls...
  
  
• Trailer racing
• Train racing
• Touring car racing
  Touring car racing
  Touring car racing is a general term for a number of distinct auto racing competitions in heavily-modified street cars. It is notably popular in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Scandinavia and Britain.-Characteristics of a touring car:...
  
  
• Truck racing
  Truck Racing
  Truck racing is a form of motor racing which involves modified versions of heavy tractor units on racing circuits.The sport started in England in 1984 with the first race held at Donington Park and enjoyed great success, but declined in the 1990s. However, in the last few years the profile of...
  
  
• Vintage racing
• Wheelstand competition
  Wheelstand competition
  Wheelstand competition is a form of motorsport where specially prepared vehicles compete in order to have the highest, longest, most photogenic and violent wheelstand, normally in drag strips or Monster Trucks....
  
  

Motorboat racing

• Drag boat racing
  Drag boat racing
  As the name suggests, drag boat racing is a form of drag racing which takes place on water rather than land. As with land based drag racing, a pair of competitors race their vehicles for the lowest elapsed time over a straight race course of a defined length...
  
  
• F1 Powerboat Racing
  F1 Powerboat Racing
  F1 Powerboat World Championship is a competition of powerboats with rules similar to Formula One car racing. Each F1 powerboat race lasts approximately 45 minutes following a circuit marked out in a selected stretch of water, usually a lake, river, or sheltered bay.Qualifying periods decide the...
  
  
• Hydroplane racing
  Hydroplane racing
  Hydroplane racing is a sport involving racing hydroplanes on lakes and rivers. It is a popular spectator sport in several countries.-International Professional Outboard Hydroplane Racing:...
  
  
• Jet sprint boat racing
  Jet sprint boat racing
  Jetsprint or sprint boat racing is a form of racing sport in which jetboats with a crew of two race individually against the clock through twisting series of channels in less than a metre of water....
  
  
• Offshore powerboat racing
  Offshore powerboat racing
  Offshore powerboat racing is racing by large, specially designed ocean-going powerboats, typically point-to-point racing.Probably one of the largest, most dangerous, and most powerful racing machines of all, the extreme expense of the boats and the fuel required to participate make it an expensive...
  
  

Motorcycle racing

• Auto Race
  Auto Race
  is a Japanese version of motorcycle speedway, but combines gambling added into it and is held on an asphalt course, throughout Japan. It is regulated by the JKA Foundation.A typical Auto Race bike is 599㏄. Autorace is predominantly a gambling sport...
  
  
• Board track racing
  Board track racing
  Board track, or motordrome, racing was a type of motorsport popular in the United States between the second and third decades of the 20th century. Competition was conducted on oval race courses with surfaces composed of wooden planks...
  
  
• Cross-country rally
• Endurance racing
• Enduro
  Enduro
  Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on courses that are predominantly off-road. Enduro consists of many different obstacles and challenges...
  
  
• Freestyle Motocross
  Freestyle Motocross
  Freestyle Motocross is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts.The two main types of freestyle events are:...
  
  
• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...
  
  
• Grass Track
• Hill Climb
• Ice Racing
  Ice racing
  Ice racing is a form of racing that uses cars, motorcycles, snowmobiles, All-terrain vehicles, or other motorized vehicles. Ice racing takes place on frozen lakes or rivers, or on carefully groomed frozen lots...
  
  
• Indoor short track
• Motocross
  Motocross
  Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. It evolved from trials, and was called scrambles, and later motocross, combining the French moto with cross-country...
  
  
• Motorcycle drag racing
  Motorcycle drag racing
  Motorcycle drag racing involves two participants lining up at a dragstrip with a signaled starting line. Upon the starting signal, the riders accelerate down a quarter mile long, two lane, straight paved track where their elapsed time and terminal speed are recorded. The rider to reach the finish...
  
  
• Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
  
  
• Rally Raid
  Rally raid
  Rally raid, also known as cross country rallying is a form of long distance off-road racing that takes place over several days. Each day may require traveling up to . The length of the event can be 3–15 days...
  
  
• Road racing
  Road racing
  Road racing is a general term for most forms of motor racing held on paved, purpose-built race tracks , as opposed to oval tracks and off-road racing...
  
  
• Superbike racing
  Superbike racing
  Superbike racing is a category of motorcycle racing that employs modified production motorcycles. Superbike World Championship is the international superbike championship, and national superbike championships are held in many countries as well, including the United Kingdom, the United States,...
  
  
• Supercross
  Supercross
  Supercross is a motorcycle racing sport involving off-road motorcycles on an artificially-made dirt tracks consisting of steep jumps and obstacles. Professional supercross contest races are held almost exclusively within professional baseball and football stadiums.-History:Supercross was derived...
  
  
• Supermoto
  Supermoto
  Supermoto is motorcycle racing on a circuit that alternates between three types of track: flat track, motocross and road racing, using motorcycles designed for that purpose...
  
  
• Supersport racing
• Superside
  Superside
  style="float:right"|FIM Sidecar World Championship is the international sidecar racing championship. It is one of the two remaining original FIM road racing championship classes that started in 1949, the other being the 125cc world championship...
  
  
• Track racing
  Track racing
  Track racing is a form of motorcycle racing where teams or individuals race opponents around an oval track. There are differing variants, with each variant racing on a different surface type....
  
  
• TT racing
  Tourist Trophy
  Tourist Trophy may refer to:* Isle of Man TT, the original Tourist Trophy motorcycle racing event* RAC Tourist Trophy, the longest awarded prize in motorsports* Dutch TT at Assen, a MotoGP event...
  
  
• Free-style moto
  Freestyle Motocross
  Freestyle Motocross is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts.The two main types of freestyle events are:...
  
  

Animal sports

• Aari Talka
• Aduu Shurguulakh
• Alka
  Alka
  The Sinjska alka is a knight tournament which has been held every first Sunday in the month of August in town of Sinj, Croatia since 1715, commemorating the victory over Ottoman Turkish administration...
  
  
• Beetle fighting
• Bull Riding
  Bull riding
  Bull riding refers to rodeo sports that involve a rider getting on a large bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal attempts to buck off the rider....
  
  
• Camel racing
  Camel racing
  Camel racing is a popular sport in India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Australia, and Mongolia. Professional camel racing, like horse racing, is an event for betting and tourist attraction...
  
  
• Cockfight
  Cockfight
  A cockfight is a blood sport between two roosters , held in a ring called a cockpit. Cockfighting is now illegal throughout all states in the United States, Brazil, Australia and in most of Europe. It is still legal in several U.S. territories....
  
  
• Dog sports
• Ferret racing
• Hamster racing
  Hamster racing
  Hamster racing is a sport in which hamsters are placed in hamster wheels or hamster balls – often fitted to miniature racing vehicles – and raced down a straight 9 meter course. The hamster crossing the finish line in the shortest amount of time wins...
  
  
• Pigeon sport
  Pigeon sport
  There are at least four main types of competitive pigeon sport:* Pigeon racing* Tumbling* Highflying* Tippler Though not quite a sport, fancy breeds of pigeons are also bred to standards and judged in a competitive fashion. Levi in his book The Pigeon describes all aspects of pigeon keeping...
  
  
• Thoroughbred racing
• Pato
  Pato
  Pato is a game played on horseback that combine elements from polo and basketball. It is the national sport of Argentina.Pato is Spanish for "duck", as early games used a live duck inside a basket instead of a ball. Accounts of early versions of pato have been written since 1610. The playing field...
  
  
• Polo
  Polo
  Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
  
  
• Hunter-jumpers
• Combined training
• Dog Racing
• Pig racing
  Pig racing
  Pig-racing is a sport in which juvenile pigs race around a small enclosed dirt, fake grass or gravel track. This racing is usually purely for entertainment, and betting is not part of it. It is often one of the attractions at county fairs, but is also practiced in many backyard setups.Pig-racing...
  
  
• Spider fighting
  Spider fighting
  The sport of spider fighting occurs in different forms in several areas of the world. Among them are the Philippines, Japan, and Singapore. The fights that occur in the Philippines and in Japan are staged between females of various species of web weavers. Female spiders will kill a rival if the...
  
  
• Frog racing
• Water Buffalo racing
• Yo-yoing

Athletics (track and field)

• Steeplechase
  Steeplechase
  Steeplechase may refer to:* Steeplechase, an event in horse racing* SteepleChase, a Danish jazz label* Steeplechase , a 1975 arcade game released by Atari...
  
  
• Jumping
  Jumping
  Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory...
  
  
  • Triple jump
    Triple jump
    The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...
    
    
  • Long jump
    Long jump
    The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...
    
    
  • High jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....
    
    
  • Pole vault
    Pole vault
    Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...
    
    
• Throw
  Projectile
  A projectile is any object projected into space by the exertion of a force. Although a thrown baseball is technically a projectile too, the term more commonly refers to a weapon....
  
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  • Discus
    Discus throw
    The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...
    
    
  • Hammer throw
    Hammer throw
    The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...
    
    
  • Javelin
    Javelin throw
    The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...
    
    
  • Shot put
    Shot put
    The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....
    
    

Electronic sports

Sports played using electronic devices.

• Combat robot
• Radio-control vehicles
  Radio control
  Radio control is the use of radio signals to remotely control a device. The term is used frequently to refer to the control of model vehicles from a hand-held radio transmitter...
  
  
• Geo caching
• Contesting
  Contesting
  Contesting is a competitive activity pursued by amateur radio operators. In a contest, an amateur radio station, which may be operated by an individual or a team, seeks to contact as many other amateur radio stations as possible in a given period of time and exchange information...
  
  
• Competitive Video Games
  Electronic sports
  Electronic sports comprises the competitive play of video games. Other terms include competitive gaming, professional gaming and cybersports...
  
  
• Sim racing
  Sim racing
  Sim racing is the collective term for computer software that attempts to simulate accurately auto racing , complete with real-world variables such as fuel usage, damage, tire wear and grip, and suspension settings...
  
  

Endurance sports

• Running
  Running
  Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...
  
  
• Swimming
  Swimming (sport)
  Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
  
  
• Rowing
  Rowing (sport)
  Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
  
  
• Wheelchair racing
  Wheelchair racing
  Wheelchair racing is the racing of wheelchairs in track and road races. Wheelchair racing is open to athletes with any qualifying type of disability, amputees, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and partially sighted . Athletes are classified in accordance with the nature and severity of their...
  
  
• Wood chopping
  Wood chopping
  Woodchop or wood chopping is a sport that has been around for hundreds of years in several cultures. In wood chopping competitions, skilled contestants attempt to be the first to cut or saw through a log or other block of wood...
  
  
• Cross-country skiing
  Cross-country skiing
  Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
  
  
• Skipping
• Dancing
• Marching Band
  Marching band
  Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
  
  

Miscellaneous sports

• Aizkolaritza
  Aizkolaritza
  Aizkolaritza is the Basque name for a type of wood-chopping competition. They are a popular form of herri kirol in the Basque Country...
  
  
• Atlatl
  Atlatl
  An atlatl or spear-thrower is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing.It consists of a shaft with a cup or a spur at the end that supports and propels the butt of the dart. The atlatl is held in one hand, gripped near the end farthest from the cup...
  
  
• Bungee jumping
  Bungee jumping
  Bungee jumping is an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot-air-balloon or helicopter, that...
  
  
• Boomerang
  Boomerang
  A boomerang is a flying tool with a curved shape used as a weapon or for sport.-Description:A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones. Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced...
  
  
• Chinlone
  Chinlone
  Chinlone is the traditional sport of Burma . Chinlone is a combination of sport and dance, a team sport with no opposing team. In essence chinlone is non-competitive. The focus is not on winning or losing, but how beautifully one plays the game....
  
  
• Competitive eating
  Competitive eating
  Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to consume large quantities of food in a short time period. Contests are typically less than 15 minutes in length, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner...
  
  
• Egg and spoon race
  Egg and spoon race
  An egg-and-spoon race is a sporting event in which participants must carry an egg or other roundish object on a teaspoon, tablespoon or wooden spoon and race to the finish line without dropping the egg or without running while the egg is not on the spoon...
  
  
• Footbag
  Footbag
  A footbag is both a small, round bag, and the term for the various sports played with one – characterized by controlling the bag by using one's feet. Although often referred to generically as a Hacky Sack, that is the trademarked name of one specific brand.Footbag-like activities have existed...
  
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  Hacky Sack
  thumb|right|200px|A Hacky SackHacky Sack is the trademarked name of a type of footbag.-History:The name "hacky sack" came from the 1972 inventors of the Footbag, John Stalberger and Mike Marshall. Although Marshall suffered a fatal heart attack in 1975, Stalberger continued the business. At a...
  
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• Haggis hurling
  Haggis hurling
  Haggis hurling is a Scottish sport involving the hurling of a haggis as far as possible for distance and accuracy from atop a platform . The Haggis must be edible.-Background:...
  
  
• Kang Shanaba
• Lumberjack
  Lumberjack
  A lumberjack is a worker in the logging industry who performs the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to a bygone era when hand tools were used in harvesting trees principally from virgin forest...
  
  
• Pit Crew Challenge
  Pit Crew Challenge
  The Sprint Pit Crew Challenge is an event held by NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers every year at the Time Warner Cable Arena, home of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats. This event in its current format was first held in 2005.-History:...
  
  
• Quidditch
  Quidditch
  Quidditch is a fictional sport developed by British author J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series of novels. It is described as an extremely rough, but very popular, semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches around the world...
  
  
• Talong-itlog
• Tetherball
  Tetherball
  Tetherball is a North American game for two opposing players. The equipment consists of a stationary metal pole, from which is hung a volleyball from a rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each player tries to hit the ball one way; one clockwise, and one...
  
  
• Three-legged race
  Three-legged race
  A favorite at community picnics and school carnivals, a three-legged race is a game of cooperation between partners as much as it is one of speed. It involves two participants attempting to complete a short sprint with the left leg of one runner strapped to the right leg of another runner...
  
  
• Sack race
  Sack race
  The sack race or gunny sack race is a competitive game in which participants place both of their legs inside a sack or pillow case that reaches their waist or neck and jump forward from a starting point toward a finish line. The first person to cross the finish line is the winner of the race.Sack...
  
  

Olympic Sports

Summer Olympics

• Archery
  Archery at the Summer Olympics
  Archery had its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 13 Olympiads. Eighty three different nations have appeared in the Olympic archery competitions, with France appearing the most often at 11 times. It is governed by the International Archery Federation...
  
  
• Athletics
  Athletics at the Summer Olympics
  Athletics has been contested at every Summer Olympics since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The athletics program traces its earliest roots to events used in the ancient Greek Olympics. The modern program now comprises track and field events, road running...
  
  
• Badminton
  Badminton at the Summer Olympics
  Badminton had its debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics and has been contested in 5 Olympiads. 50 different nations have appeared in the Olympic badminton competitions, with 19 appearing all 5 times. It is governed by the Badminton World Federation.-History:...
  
  
• Basketball
  Basketball at the Summer Olympics
  Basketball has been a Summer Olympics sport for men consistently since 1936. Prior to its inclusion as a medal sport, it was held as demonstration event in 1904 and 1932, both in the United States. Women's basketball was played in the Olympics only since 1976....
  
  
• Beach volleyball
  Volleyball at the Summer Olympics
  Volleyball has been contested as an indoor sport at the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced at the 1992 Games, and has been an official Olympic sport since 1996.-Origins:...
  
  
• Boxing
  Boxing at the Summer Olympics
  Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. The 2008 Summer Olympics was the final games with boxing as a male only event...
  
  
• Canoeing
  Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
  Canoeing and kayaking has been featured as a competition sport in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin although it was a demonstration sport at the 1924 Games in Paris. There are two disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: slalom and sprint.Two styles of boats are...
  
  
• Cycling
  Cycling at the Summer Olympics
  Cycling has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics.-Track cycling, Men:-Track cycling, Women:-Road bicycle racing, Men:-Road bicycle racing, Women:...
  
  
• Diving
  Diving at the Summer Olympics
  Diving was first introduced in the official programme of the Summer Olympic Games at the 1904 Games of St. Louis and has been an Olympic sport since. It was known as "fancy diving" for the acrobatic stunts performed by divers during the dive...
  
  
• Equestrian
  Equestrian at the Summer Olympics
  Equestrianism made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It disappeared until 1912, but has appeared at every Summer Olympic Games since. The current Olympic equestrian disciplines are Dressage, Eventing, and Jumping...
  
  
• Fencing
  Fencing at the Summer Olympics
  Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Women's foil made its Olympic debut in Paris, during the 1924 Olympic Games...
  
  
• Football
  Football at the Summer Olympics
  Association football, usually known simply as football or soccer, has been included in every Olympiad except 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport. Women's football was added to the official programme in 1996.-Early history:...
  
  
• Gymnastics
  Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics
  Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic...
  
  
• Handball
  Handball at the Summer Olympics
  Team handball was introduced as an Olympic sport for men at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but dropped after that, only to be resumed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, again on German territory...
  
  
• Field hockey
  Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
  Field hockey was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
  
  
• Judo
  Judo at the Summer Olympics
  Judo was first included in the Summer Olympic Games at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, Japan. After not being included in 1968, judo has been an Olympic sport in each Olympiad since then. Only male judoka participated until the 1988 Summer Olympics, when women participated as a demonstration sport...
  
  
• Modern pentathlon
  Modern pentathlon at the Summer Olympics
  Modern pentathlon is a sports contest created especially for the Summer Olympic Games by the founder of the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and was first contested in 1912. Coubertin was inspired by the pentathlon event in Ancient Olympic Games, which was modeled after the skills of the...
  
  
• Rowing
  Rowing at the Summer Olympics
  Rowing at the Summer Olympics has been part of the competition since the 1900 Summer Olympics. Rowing was on the program at the 1896 Summer Olympics but was cancelled due to bad weather. Only men were allowed to compete until the women's events were introduced at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal...
  
  
• Rugby
  Rugby union at the Summer Olympics
  Rugby union has been a men's medal sport at the modern Summer Olympic Games, being played at four of the first seven competitions. The sport debuted at the 1900 Paris games where the gold medal was won by the host nation. It was subsequently featured at the London games in 1908, the Antwerp games...
  
  
• Sailing
  Sailing at the Summer Olympics
  Sailing has been one of the Olympic sports since the Games of the I Olympiad, held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Despite being scheduled in the first Olympic program, the races were canceled due to severe weather conditions...
  
  
• Shooting
  Shooting at the Summer Olympics
  Shooting sports have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics except at the 1904 & 1928 editions.-Men's:...
  
  
• Swimming
  Swimming at the Summer Olympics
  Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games and the one with the largest number of events....
  
  
• Synchronized swimming
  Synchronized swimming at the Summer Olympics
  Synchronized swimming has been contested at the Summer Olympics since the 1984 Games. The current Olympic program has competition in duet and team events, but in past games, a solo event was also contested...
  
  
• Table tennis
  Table tennis at the Summer Olympics
  Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for both men and women. Athletes from China have dominated the sport, winning a total of 41 medals in 24 events, including 20 gold medals.-Events:...
  
  
• Taekwondo
  Taekwondo at the Summer Olympics
  Taekwondo made its first appearance at the Summer Olympic Games as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. The opening ceremony featured a mass demonstration of taekwondo with hundreds of adults and children performing moves in unison. Taekwondo was again a...
  
  
• Tennis
  Tennis at the Summer Olympics
  Tennis was part of the Summer Olympic Games program from the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics, but was dropped after the 1924 Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Triathlon
  Triathlon at the Summer Olympics
  Triathlon had its Summer Olympics debut at the 2000 Games, in Sydney, and has been contested since then. It is governed by the International Triathlon Union.-History:...
  
  
• Volleyball
  Volleyball at the Summer Olympics
  Volleyball has been contested as an indoor sport at the Summer Olympic Games since 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced at the 1992 Games, and has been an official Olympic sport since 1996.-Origins:...
  
  
• Weightlifting
  Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics
  Weightlifting has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the 1920 Summer Olympics, as well as twice before then. It debuted at the 1896 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, and was also an event at the 1904 Games.-Men's events:...
  
  
• Wrestling
  Wrestling at the Summer Olympics
  Wrestling has been contested at the Summer Olympic Games since the sport was introduced in the ancient Olympic Games in 708 BC. When the modern Olympic Games resumed in Athens in 1896, wrestling became a focus of the Games, with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics when wrestling did not...
  
  

Winter Olympics

• Alpine skiing
  Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics
  Alpine skiing has been contested at every Winter Olympics since 1936, when a combined event was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1948–80, the Winter Olympics also served as the World Championships in Olympic years...
  
  
• Biathlon
  Biathlon at the Winter Olympics
  Biathlon debuted at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley with the men's 20 km individual event. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the men's 4×7.5 km relay debuted, followed by the 10 km sprint event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York...
  
  
• Bobsleigh
  Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics
  Bobsleigh has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the first Winter Games in 1924, with the exception of the 1960 games in Squaw Valley when the organizing committee decided not to build a track in order to reduce expenses. Other than that exception, the four-man competition has been...
  
  
• Cross-country skiing
  Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics
  Cross-country skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the first Winter Games in 1924. The women's events were first contested at the 1952 Winter Olympics.- Events :- Medal table :- Number of Cross-country skiers by Nation :...
  
  
• Curling
  Curling at the Winter Olympics
  Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix. The results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence...
  
  
• Figure skating
  Figure skating at the Olympic Games
  Figure skating has been contested in the Olympic Games since the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 and 1920, the figure skating competitions were held in conjunction with the Games of the Olympiad...
  
  
• Freestyle skiing
  Freestyle skiing at the Winter Olympics
  Freestyle skiing has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville. It was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics, with moguls, aerials, and ballet events. Moguls became an official medal sport at the 1992 games, while aerials and ballet were...
  
  
• Ice hockey
• Luge
  Luge at the Winter Olympics
  Luge was introduced to the Winter Olympic Games in 1964, with both men's and women's events and a doubles event. Doubles is technically a mixed event, but is almost always competed by a team of two men...
  
  
• Nordic combined
  Nordic combined at the Winter Olympics
  The Nordic combined events have been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since 1924. The first competition involved 18 km cross-country skiing, followed by ski jumping. Whoever earned the most points from both competitions won the event. At the 1952 Winter Olympics, the ski jumping was held...
  
  
• Short track speed skating
  Short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics
  Short track speed skating has been a contest at the Winter Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. Prior to that, it was a demonstration sport at the 1988 games. The results from the 1988 demonstration competition is not included in the official Olympic statistics...
  
  
• Skeleton
  Skeleton at the Winter Olympics
  Skeleton was part of the Winter Olympic Games program when the games were held in St. Moritz in 1928 and again in 1948, but was then removed from the program...
  
  
• Ski jumping
  Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics
  Ski jumping has been included in the program of every Winter Olympic Games. From 1924 through 1956, the competition involved jumping from one hill whose length varied from each edition games to the next. Most historians have placed this length at 70 meters and have classified this as the large hill...
  
  
• Snowboarding
  Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics
  Snowboarding is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Snowboarding was one of five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter Olympic program between 1992 and 2002, and was the only one not to have been a previous medal or...
  
  
• Speed skating
  Speed skating at the Winter Olympics
  Speed skating has been featured as a sport in the Winter Olympics since the first winter games in 1924. Women's events were added to the Olympic program for the first time in 1960.-History:...
  
  

Other

• Stunt pogo
  Stunt pogo
  Stunt pogo or extreme pogo is the act of performing stunts or tricks on a pogo stick, and is often compared to other extreme sports, such as skateboarding. The organization of the sport is attributed to David Armstrong the founder of Xpogo.com...
  
  
• Stilt walking
• Fastball
  Softball
  Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
  
  
• Zorbing
  Zorbing
  Zorbing is the recreation of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic. Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope, but can also be done on a level surface, permitting more rider control. In the absence of hills some operators have constructed inflatable, wooden or...
  
  
• Skiball
• Chain surfing

Skating sports

• Aggressive inline skating
  Aggressive inline skating
  Aggressive inline skating is a form of inline skating, performed on specially designed inline skates with focus on sliding stances known as grinds with a focus on new tricks, stunts and personal style. Participants refer to the activity as "'rollerblading'", "blading", "skating" or "rolling"...
  
  
• Artistic roller skating
  Artistic roller skating
  Artistic roller skating is a sport similar to figure skating but where constestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates. Within artistic roller skating there are several disciplines:* figures...
  
  
• Bobrun skating
• Ice skating
  Ice skating
  Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...
  
  
• Inline speed skating
  Inline speed skating
  Inline speed skating is the sport of racing on inline skates It is often called inline racing by participants. Although it primarily evolved from racing on traditional roller skates, the sport is similar enough to ice speed skating that many competitors are now known to switch between inline and...
  
  
• Figure skating
  Figure skating
  Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...
  
  
• Rinkball
  Rinkball
  Rink bandy is a team sport that originated in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s. Played on an ice hockey rink, the game evolved from a practice drill used by bandy players. Similar to both hockey and bandy, one game lasts 60 minutes, and is composed of either two 30 minute halves or three 20 minute...
  
  
• Rink hockey
• Freestyle slalom skating
  Freestyle slalom skating
  Freestyle slalom skating is a highly technical field of skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones. The most common spacing used in competitions is 80cm, with larger competitions also featuring lines spaced at 50cm and 120cm.-Equipment:Most freestyle...
  
  
• Roller derby
  Roller derby
  Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matchups in which both teams designate a scoring player who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team...
  
  
• Roller skating
  Roller skating
  Roller skating is the traveling on smooth surfaces with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. Skates generally come in two basic varieties: quad roller skates and inline skates or blades, though some have experimented with a...
  
  
• Roller speed skating
• Short track speed skating
  Short track speed skating
  Short track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters skate on an oval ice track with a circumference of 111.12 m...
  
  
• Skater hockey
  Skater hockey
  Skater hockey is team sport played with a plastic ball. The game is played using inline roller skates or quad skates. It is different to Inline Hockey....
  
  
• Speed skating
  Speed skating
  Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...
  
  
• Synchronized skating
  Synchronized skating
  Synchronized skating or synchronised skating, a large and fast-growing discipline, consists of 8—20 athletes skating on ice at one time moving as one flowing unit at high speeds...
  
  

Snowsports

• Ski flying
• Skibob
• Boardercross
  Boardercross
  Snowboard cross is a snowboard competition in which a group of snowboarders start simultaneously atop an inclined course, then race to reach the finish line first...
  
  
• Freestyle snowboarding
• Snowshoeing
• Skiboarding
  Skiboarding
  Skiboarding is a winter sport which combines elements of skating, snowboarding, and skiing. Skiboards are used and worn in conjunction with standard ski boots that connect to the skiboards with use of a binding. Skiboards can be grouped into two general categories. Regular skiboards are generally...
  
  

Strength sports

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

• Ahel Karr
• Arm Wrestling
  Arm Wrestling
  Arm Wrestling is a 1985 arcade game developed and released only in North America by Nintendo and a spin-off of the Punch-Out!! series. Since it was created by the same development team that made the Punch-Out!! series, Arm Wrestling features many of the same features such as a dual-monitor system...
  
  
• Thumb wrestling
• Bodybuilding
  Bodybuilding
  Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy. An individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive and professional bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their...
  
  
• Finger Jousting
  Finger Jousting
  Finger Jousting is an obscure sport in which two players clasp their right hands together and attempt to poke each other with their right index finger. The competitors interlock hands as if they were arm wrestling and may use only their right arm to “joust,” or poke, his or her opponent...
  
  
• Powerlifting
  Powerlifting
  Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
  
  
• Strength Athletics
  Strength athletics
  Strength athletics, more generally known as strongman competitions, is a sport which tests competitors' strength in a variety of different ways. Some of the disciplines are similar to those in powerlifting and some powerlifters have also successfully competed in strongman competitions...
  
  
• Toe wrestling
  Toe Wrestling
  Toe wrestling is a sport gaining popularity in the UK. World championships started in Wetton in the 1970s and are now held at the Bentley Brook Inn in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Top players include Tom "100m" Martin, Paul "Tomatominator" Beech and Alan "fiesty" Nash , who is the current world...
  
  
• Tug-o-war
• Zourkhaneh

Table sports

See also Cue Sports.

• Air hockey
  Air hockey
  Air hockey is a game for two competing players trying to score points in the opposing player's goal.-Equipment:Air hockey requires an air-hockey table, two player-held mallets, and a puck....
  
  
• Backgammon
  Backgammon
  Backgammon is one of the oldest board games for two players. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice, and players win by removing all of their pieces from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits...
  
  
• Connect Four
  Connect Four
  Connect Four is a two-player game in which the players first choose a color and then take turns dropping their colored discs from the top into a seven-column, six-row vertically-suspended grid...
  
  
• Draughts
  Draughts
  Draughts is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy's pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque...
  
   (checker)
• Dominoes
  Dominoes
  Dominoes generally refers to the collective gaming pieces making up a domino set or to the subcategory of tile games played with domino pieces. In the area of mathematical tilings and polyominoes, the word domino often refers to any rectangle formed from joining two congruent squares edge to edge...
  
  
• foosball
• Mahjong
  Mahjong
  Mahjong, sometimes spelled Mah Jongg, is a game that originated in China, commonly played by four players...
  
   (Taipei)
• Reversi
  Reversi
  Reversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...
  
   (Othello)
• Shogi
  Shogi
  , also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...
  
  
• Scrabble
  Scrabble
  Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
  
   (and variants)
• Subbuteo
  Subbuteo
  Subbuteo is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as association football, cricket, both codes of rugby and hockey. The name is most closely associated with the football game, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football".The "Subbuteo" name is derived...
  
  
• Table football
  Table football
  Table football, also known as gitoni or foosball, is a table-top game and sport that is loosely based on association football.-Names:...
  
  
• Table Tennis
  Table tennis
  Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
  
   (Ping Pong)
• Table hockey
  ITHF table hockey
  Table hockey is a sport played on table hockey games. The use only table hockeys made by Stiga. The origin of the sport was the Swedish Championship 1982 in Upplands Väsby. Organized table hockey is played in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, in North America and in Japan.The World...
  
  
• Tiddlywinks
  Tiddlywinks
  Tiddlywinks is an indoor game played on a flat mat with sets of small discs called "winks", a pot and a collection of squidgers. Players use a "squidger", a disk usually made from plastic to move a wink into flight by pressing down on one side of the wink...
  
  
• Xiangqi
  Xiangqi
  Xiangqi is a two-player Chinese board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, shogi, Indian chess and janggi. The present-day form of Xiangqi originated in China and is therefore commonly called Chinese chess in English. Xiangqi is one of the most popular board games in China...
  
  

Target sports

Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.

• Afghan Archery
• Archery
  Archery
  Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
  
  
• Bhutan Archery
• Billiards
  Billiards
  Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
  
  
• Blowgun
  Blowgun
  "Blowpipe" and "blow tube" redirect here. For other uses of the terms, see GlassblowingA blowgun is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts....
  
  
• Bowling Pin Shooting
• Carom billiards
• Pool
  Eight ball
  Eight-ball is a pool game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international professional and amateur competition...
  
  
• Calva
  Calva
  Calva is a traditional sport played in certain parts of Spain. It has roots going back to pre-Roman times, being developed by the Celtiberians who lived in the modern-day provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, and Zamora. It was a game for shepherds, who threw stones at bull's horns to entertain themselves...
  
  
• Conkers
• Croquet
  Croquet
  Croquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport. It involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court.-History:...
  
  
• Darts
  Darts
  Darts is a form of throwing game where darts are thrown at a circular target fixed to a wall. Though various boards and games have been used in the past, the term "darts" usually now refers to a standardised game involving a specific board design and set of rules...
  
  
• Archery
  Archery
  Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
  
  
• Horseshoes
  Horseshoes
  Horseshoes is an outdoor game played between two people using four horseshoes and two throwing targets set in a sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed 40 feet apart...
  
   (horseshoe throwing)
• Knife throwing
  Knife throwing
  Knife throwing is an art, sport, combat skill, or variously an entertainment technique, involving an artist skilled in the art of throwing knives, the weapons thrown, and a target.-A throwing knife:...
  
  
• Lawn bowls
• Matball
  Matball
  Matball, is an indoor sport played in schools around the United States. The main objective of the game is similar to kickball, but with a few differences. In some areas it is known as Big Base...
  
  
• Pall mall
  Pall mall (game)
  Paille-maille is a lawn game that was mostly played in the 16th and 17th centuries, a precursor to croquet.-History:...
  
  
• Petanque
  Pétanque
  Pétanque is a form of boules where the goal is, while standing inside a starting circle with both feet on the ground, to throw hollow metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet or jack. It is also sometimes called a bouchon or le petit...
  
  
• Shooting
  Shooting sports
  A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...
  
  
• Trugo
  Trugo
  Trugo, or alternatively TruGo, is a sport invented in the Newport Railway Workshops in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, by railway workers in the 1920s. The first club was in the suburb of Yarraville...
  
  
• Skittles (sport)
  Skittles (sport)
  Skittles is an old European lawn game, a variety of bowling, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the United States, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom, the game remains a popular pub game in England and Wales, though it tends to be...
  
  
• Skee ball
  Skee ball
  Skee ball is a common arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is similar to bowling except it is played on an inclined lane and the player aims to get the ball to fall into a hole rather than knock down pins...
  
  
• Pitch and putt
  Pitch and putt
  Pitch and putt is an amateur sport, similar to golf. The maximum hole length for international competitions is with a maximum total course length of . Players may only use three clubs; one of which must be a putter...
  
  

Team sports

Sports that involve teams. (Many are listed elsewhere too.)

• Al-Hol
• Al-Laqsa
• Ampe
  Ampe
  Ampe is a simple game played by school age children in Ghana and other places. The game, played by two or more players, is simple and requires no equipment....
  
  
• Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
   family
• Bowling
  Bowling
  Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
  
  
• Basque pelota
• Bat-and-ball games
  Bat-and-ball games
  Bat-and-ball games are field games played by two teams. The teams alternate between "batting" roles, sometimes called "in at bat" and "out in the field", or simply in and out. Only the batting team may score, so the fielding team is defending, but they have equal chances in both roles...
  
  
• Bunnock
  Bunnock
  Bunnock, also known as Glockenspiel and the Game of Bones, is a game that is thought to have been created by Russian soldiers to pass the time while stationed in northern Siberia during the early nineteenth century .The game involves what the soldiers had a surplus of; namely, horse...
  
  
• Business chess
  Business chess
  Business chess is a variant of chess played in teams. It was invented in 1992 by Dr. Grachya Ovakimyan of Moscow with the aim of making chess more entertaining and spectacular....
  
  
• Camogie
  Camogie
  Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
  
  
• Cubbies
  Cubbies
  Cubbies also known as a Wembley, Wembo or knock-outs is an informal variant on football originating spontaneously in different parts of the world. One goalkeeper, who also acts as referee as required, stands in the goal to stop the football getting in, as in normal FA rules football. The rest...
  
  
• Football
  Football
  Football may refer to one of a number of team sports which all involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer"...
  
   family
• Gateball
  Gateball
  Gateball is a mallet team sport similar to croquet. It is a fast-paced, non-contact, highly-strategic team game, which can be played by anyone regardless of age or gender....
  
  
• Handball
  Team handball
  Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
  
  
• Hockey
  Hockey
  Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
  
   family
• Hornussen
  Hornussen
  Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss sport. The sport gets its name from the puck which is known as a "Hornuss" or "Nouss". When hit, it can whizz through the air at up to 300 km/h and create a buzzing sound.-History:...
  
  
• Horseshoe
  Horseshoe
  A horseshoe, is a fabricated product, normally made of metal, although sometimes made partially or wholly of modern synthetic materials, designed to protect a horse's hoof from wear and tear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall...
  
  
• Kickball
  Kickball
  Kickball is a playground game and competitive league game, similar to baseball, invented in the United States in the first half of the 20th Century. Kickball may also be known as kick baseball, base soccer, soccer-base, or soccer-baseball...
  
  
• Lacrosse
  Lacrosse
  Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
  
  
• Marching Band
  Marching band
  Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
  
  
• Mesoamerican ballgame
  Mesoamerican ballgame
  The Mesoamerican ballgame or Tlatchtli in Náhuatl was a sport with ritual associations played since 1,000 B.C. by the pre-Columbian peoples of Ancient Mexico and Central America...
  
  
• Polo
  Polo
  Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
  
   family
• Paintball
  Paintball
  Paintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside propelled from a device called a paintball marker . Paintballs have a non-toxic, biodegradable, water soluble...
  
  
• Sepak Takraw
  Sepak Takraw
  Sepak takraw , or kick volleyball, is a sport native to the Malay-Thai Peninsula...
  
  
• Skittles
  Skittles (sport)
  Skittles is an old European lawn game, a variety of bowling, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the United States, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom, the game remains a popular pub game in England and Wales, though it tends to be...
  
  
• Speedball
  Speedball
  Speedball is one of the two distinct game variants in the sport of paintball, the other being woodsball. It is a general term for a game in which the playing field is composed of bunkers, of the same location and number on each side of the field, that provide an equal playing field for each team...
  
  
• Tennis Polo
  Tennis Polo
  Tennis polo is a field sport where two teams of ten players use a tennis ball to score goals. Two teams of ten players attempt to throw the ball into a goal defended by a keeper who holds a racquet. Tennis Polo shares elements of sports such as field handball, the Gaelic sport of hurling and...
  
  
• Throwball
  Throwball
  Throwball is a non-contact ball sport played across a net between two teams of seven players on a rectangular court. Throwball is popular in Asia, especially on the Indian subcontinent, and was first played in India as a women's sport in Chennai during the 1940s. Like volleyball, the game's roots...
  
  
• Ultimate
  Ultimate (sport)
  Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
  
  
• Underwater football
  Underwater Football
  Underwater football is a two-team sport that shares common elements of underwater hockey and underwater rugby. As with both of those games, it is played in a swimming pool with snorkeling equipment ....
  
  
• Volleyball
  Volleyball
  Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
  
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• Wallyball
  Wallyball
  Wallyball is a fast-paced sport that was created by Bill Dejonghe at The Calabasas Racquetball Club , in 1979 . The idea was an attempt to help bring more business into the club in the summer months The club pro Joe Garcia then took the idea mainstream. However, the sport roots go back to as early...
  
  

Sport by region

Africa

Sport in Africa

Football is a popular sport in Africa, and in 2010 South Africa become the first African nation to host the world cup. Some African nations, like Kenya and Ethiopia, are very dominant at long distance running, whilst countries such as Zimbabwe is mainly a Cricketing nation. Rugby and golf are...

West Africa

Benin • Burkina Faso

Sport in Burkina Faso

Sport in Burkina Faso is widespread and includes football , basketball, cycling, Rugby union, handball, tennis, athletics, boxing and martial arts.-Football:...

 • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone

Sport in Sierra Leone

Sports are an important part of Sierra Leonean society and Football is the most played sport in the country. Athletics, basketball, boxing and cricket are also common sports in the country.-Football in Sierra Leone:...

 • Togo

North Africa

Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco

Sport in Morocco

Sport in Morocco refers to the sports played in the Kingdom of Morocco. As of 2007, Moroccan society participated in many sports, including handball, football, golf, tennis, basketball, and athletics...

 • Sudan • Tunisia

Sport in Tunisia

Football is the most popular sport in Tunisia. The most watched sports in Tunisia are football, handball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, and rugby union.Sport is encouraged in school, and local sports clubs receive financial support from the local governments....

 • Western Sahara

Central Africa

Angola • Burundi • Cameroon

Sport in Cameroon

Sport in Cameroon is practiced widely by the population and advocated by the national government. Cameroonians take pride in victories at international competitions, making sport an important source of national unity. Traditional sports in Cameroon include canoe racing, swimming, tug of war, and...

 • Central African Republic • Chad

Sport in Chad

The principal sports in Chad are football, basketball, athletics, boxing, martial arts and fishing, which is mostly known in Lake Chad. The national stadium is the Stade Nacional in the capital, N'Djamena.-Football in Chad:...

 • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe

East Africa

Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea

Sport in Eritrea

Football is the most popular sport in Eritrea. In recent years Eritrean athletes have seen increasing success in the international arena....

 • Ethiopia

Sport in Ethiopia

Sports in Ethiopia include many fields, although Ethiopia is best known internationally for its middle-distance and long-distance. Seifu Mekonnen was an Olympic contestant for Ethiopia in boxing. And the Ethiopian national football team won the 1962 Africa Cup of Nations...

 • Kenya

Sport in Kenya

Sports in Kenya are paralleled with Kenyan culture and as old as the archeological trivia of the trace of the origin of mankind. Various indigenous traditional sports have prevailed in Kenya as elements of culture and a way of life since the history of mankind...

 • Madagascar • Malawi

Sport in Malawi

Sports in Malawi have been shaped by its history as a colony in the old British Empire, the most popular sports coming from Britain.Football is the most popular sport. It is played by boys at all levels from makeshift village playfields to prep school league competition. Malawi fields a national...

 • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia

Sport in Somalia

Sports in Somalia consists of:* Somalia national football team* Somalia national beach soccer team* Somalia League* Somalia Cup* Somali Football Federation* Somalia national basketball team* Somalia at the Olympics...

 • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe

Sport in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has a great sporting tradition and has produced many world recognised sports names and personalities. Cricket is one of the most popular sports in Zimbabwe, although rugby union and field hockey also have a following, traditionally among the white minority. Football is also played widely...

Southern Africa

Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia

Sport in Namibia

The principal sports in Namibia are football , rugby union, cricket, golf and fishing. Boxing and athletics are also popular. The home stadium for all national teams is Independence Stadium in Windhoek, while Sam Nujoma Stadium in Katutura is also occasionally used.- Cricket in Namibia :The history...

 • South Africa

Sport in South Africa

Only certain sports have a passionate following in South Africa, although they remain largely divided on ethnic lines; alleged lack of transforbobmation has been increasingly criticised by South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee , Ministry of Sports and civil society...

 • Swaziland

Dependencies

Mayotte (France) • St. Helena (UK) • Puntland • Somaliland  • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Antarctica

None

Asia

Sport in Asia

Popular sports in Asia include football, cricket, basketball, badminton and table tennis among others.-Cricket:Cricket is one of the most popular sports...

Central Asia

Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan

Sport in Uzbekistan

Over the centuries, Uzbekistan has had a tradition of fostering equestrians and wrestlers . Some of the sports that originate in the country are the kurash, which is a type of upright wrestling, along with belbogli kurash, another type of upright wrestling, and turon, boyqurgan as the other two...

East Asia

China

Sport in the People's Republic of China

Although China has long been associated with the martial arts, sport in China today consists of a small variety of competitive sports played in China, including mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau...

Tibet

Hong Kong

Sport in Hong Kong

Sports in Hong Kong, as in other countries, are an important part of the culture. Hong Kong, however, has a limited amount of resources. A balanced mix of Eastern and Western sports does exist in the territory.-History:...

 • Macau

Sport in Macau

Macau residents participate in a wide variety of sports for recreation and competition. Football, basketball, volleyball, Dragon Boat, jogging, swimming, table tennis, and badminton are among the most popular in the community...

Japan

Sport in Japan

Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Both traditional sports such as sumo and martial arts, and Western imports like baseball and association football, are popular with both participants and spectators....

 • North Korea

Sport in North Korea

North Korea has a blend of both traditional and western sports in which the country participates.-Arirang:Perhaps the most well known sporting event in North Korea is the annual Arirang Festival, held at Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang on April 15 of every year in celebration of the birthdate...

 • South Korea

Sport in South Korea

South Korea has traditional sports of its own, but sports imported from the West are predominant.-Traditional sports:There are various forms of folk dancing still practiced in Korea. Although not commonly considered a sport, traditional mask dance drama is physically demanding.Kite flying is...

 • Mongolia • Taiwan

Sport in Taiwan

Sports are a popular recreation activity in Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China. Some of the most common sports include basketball, baseball, soccer and softball. Martial arts such as t'ai chi ch'uan and taekwondo is also practiced by many people. The most popular spectator sport is...

North Asia

Russia

Sport in Russia

Russia is a keen sporting country, successful at a number of sports and continuously finishing in the top rankings at the Olympic games. During the Soviet era the team placed first in the total number of medals won at 14 of its 18 appearances; with these performances, the USSR was the dominant...

Southeast Asia

Brunei

Sport in Brunei

Brunei is one of the weakest nations in sport terms but has greatly improved since 1999. The soccer league or B-League started in 2002 and DPMM is the most important team. In basketball, the most prominent competition is a six-date tournament, the Shell Rimula Challenge Trophy, won by Suncity...

 • Burma (Myanmar)  • Cambodia

Sport in Cambodia

Cambodia has increasingly become involved in sports over the last 30 years.Football is popular as is martial arts in particular. The martial arts of Bokator, Pradal Serey and Khmer traditional wrestling are all practised in the country....

 • East Timor (Timor-Leste)

Sport in East Timor

Sport in East TimorEast Timor is a new country, and as one of the world's poorest countries, with lack of money and investments, sport activities are very few and very limited at the professional level.-International sports associations:...

 • Indonesia

Sport in Indonesia

Sports are popular in Indonesia from both the participation and spectating aspect. Racket sports, like badminton, are popular sports in Indonesia. Sporting events in Indonesia are organized by the Indonesian National Sport Committee...

 • Laos • Malaysia

Sport in Malaysia

Sports in Malaysia has become a major activity in the local universities where they often perform an annual sports or recreational activities between universities and colleges merely to inculcate the spirit of cooperation and the spirit to win a competition and meet each other and thus strengthen...

 • Philippines

Sport in the Philippines

Sports in the Philippines are sport activities in the Philippines. Basketball and boxing are the most popular sports in the Philippines. Other sports played in the Philippines include footballIn the Philippines, the term football is always used to refer to the sport of sometimes used to refer to...

 • Singapore

Sport in Singapore

Singaporeans participate in a wide variety of sports for recreation as well as for competition. Popular sports include football, cricket, rugby union, swimming, badminton, basketball, cycling and table tennis...

 • Thailand • Vietnam

Sport in Vietnam

-Football:Association football in Vietnam is run by the Vietnam Football Federation. The federation administers the Vietnam national football team, as well as the V-League, Vietnam First Division, and Vietnam Second Division....

South Asia

Afghanistan

Sport in Afghanistan

The Sports in Afghanistan are run by the Afghan Sports Federation, which promotes cricket, football, basketball, volleyball, golf, handball, boxing, taekwondo, weightlifting, bodybuilding, track and field, skating, bowling, snooker, chess, and other sports...

 • Bangladesh • Bhutan• Iran

Sport in Iran

Many sports are practiced in Iran, both traditional and modern. Tehran, for example, was the first city in the Middle East to host the Asian Games in 1974, and continues to host and participate in major international sporting events to this day...

 • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan

Sport in Pakistan

Along with Champions of Squash and Hockey, Cricket is the by far the most popular sport in Pakistan, and they have been considered the most dominant country in the sport of cricket, with numerous records under. Traditional sports like Kabaddi and other well known games are also played...

 • Sri Lanka

Sport in Sri Lanka

Sport in Sri Lanka is a significant part of Sri Lankan culture. While the national sport in Sri Lanka is volleyball, by far the most popular sport in the country is cricket. Rugby union also enjoys extensive popularity, as do aquatic sports, athletics, football and tennis...

India

Sport in India

Sports in India include cricket, chess, badminton, field hockey, tennis, association football and golf. Field Hockey is the official national sport in India, and the country has eight olympic gold medals in field hockey, though cricket is the most popular. Other popular sports include football,...

Delhi

West Asia

Armenia

Sport in Armenia

A wide array of sports are played in Armenia, the most popular is football, other popular sports are wrestling, weightlifting, judo, chess, and boxing.. Armenia's mountainous terrain provides great opportunities for the practice of sports like skiing and climbing. Being a landlocked country, water...

 • Azerbaijan

Sport in Azerbaijan

Sport in Azerbaijan has ancient roots, and even now, both traditional and modern sports are still practiced. Freestyle wrestling has been traditionally regarded as Azerbaijan's national sport, however today, the most popular sports in Azerbaijan are football and chess.-Wrestling:Wrestling remains a...

 • Bahrain

Sport in Bahrain

Sport in Bahrain is popular and widespread. Association football is particularly popular, as are certain forms of racing, and rugby union.-Rugby union:...

 • Cyprus

Sport in Cyprus

Cyprus due to its population and size does not have many international sporting achievements. Most sports are governed by associations under the umbrella of the Cyprus Sport Organisation .-Football:...

 (including disputed Northern Cyprus

Sport in Northern Cyprus

Sport in Northern Cyprus is limited in presence, as due to the lack of international recognition Northern Cyprus is not a member of any major international sporting bodies....

) • Georgia • Iraq

Sport in Iraq

Sport in Iraq has a wide array of sports, played and followed in Iraq. Football is the most popular sport in Iraq. Football is a considerable uniting factor following years of war and unrest...

 • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait

Sport in Kuwait

-Football:The Kuwait Football Association , is the governing body of football in Kuwait. The KFA organises the men's, women's, and futsal national teams. The men's team has gained limited success at the sport, with the national team having competed at eight AFC Asian Cups, and one FIFA World Cup,...

 • Lebanon

Sport in Lebanon

Because of Lebanon's unique geography, both summer and winter sports thrive in the country. In fact, during autumn and spring it is sometimes possible to engage in both activities on the same day; for example, skiing in the morning and swimming in the Mediterranean in the afternoon. In 1959,...

 • Oman

Sport in Oman

-See also:*Oman Football Association*Oman national football team*Omani League*Sultan Qaboos Cup*Oman Club*Al-Nahda *Oman national cricket team*Oman Cricket Board*Oman national beach handball team*Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex...

 • Palestine Qatar

Sport in Qatar

Association football is the most popular sport in Qatar, closely followed by cricket.Their greatest achievement of the Qatari national team is winning the Gulf Cup twice, first in 1992 and again in 2004...

 • Saudi Arabia

Sport in Saudi Arabia

- Football :Football is the main sport in Saudi Arabia. In recent years, the sport has grown in popularity, and some Saudi players get to play in Europe. The national team is governed by the Saudi Football Federation . The SFF organises the Saudi Leagues, and the Saudi Arabian Cup. The Saudi...

 • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates

Sport in the United Arab Emirates

Sport in the Republic of the United Arab Emirates is widely practiced by the people of the UAE. The most popular sport in the UAE is association football. Among the notable UAE sports achievements is the 2002–03 AFC Champions League win by Al Ain FC who also finished second in 2005 finals...

 • Yemen

Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

North Caucasus

Parts of Russia

Sport in Russia

Russia is a keen sporting country, successful at a number of sports and continuously finishing in the top rankings at the Olympic games. During the Soviet era the team placed first in the total number of medals won at 14 of its 18 appearances; with these performances, the USSR was the dominant...

 (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)

South Caucasus

Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia

Sport in Abkhazia

Sport in Abkhazia plays an important cultural role.-Football:Football was the most popular sport in Abkhazia during Soviet times. The main club of the republic, FC Dinamo Sukhumi, played mostly in the lower leagues of Soviet football. However, Abkhazia produced several football talents who played...

, South Ossetia) • Armenia

Sport in Armenia

A wide array of sports are played in Armenia, the most popular is football, other popular sports are wrestling, weightlifting, judo, chess, and boxing.. Armenia's mountainous terrain provides great opportunities for the practice of sports like skiing and climbing. Being a landlocked country, water...

 • Azerbaijan

Sport in Azerbaijan

Sport in Azerbaijan has ancient roots, and even now, both traditional and modern sports are still practiced. Freestyle wrestling has been traditionally regarded as Azerbaijan's national sport, however today, the most popular sports in Azerbaijan are football and chess.-Wrestling:Wrestling remains a...

 (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

Europe

Sport in Europe

Sport in Europe tends to be highly organised with many sports having professional leagues.The origins of many of the world's most popular sports today lay in the codification of many traditional games, especially in Great Britain....

Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia

Sport in Armenia

A wide array of sports are played in Armenia, the most popular is football, other popular sports are wrestling, weightlifting, judo, chess, and boxing.. Armenia's mountainous terrain provides great opportunities for the practice of sports like skiing and climbing. Being a landlocked country, water...

 • Austria

Sport in Austria

Due to the mountainous terrain, alpine skiing is a prominent sport in Austria. Similar sports such as snowboarding or ski jumping are also widely popular and Austrian athletes such as Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Hermann Maier and Toni Sailer are widely regarded as some of the greatest alpine skiers of...

 • Azerbaijan

Sport in Azerbaijan

Sport in Azerbaijan has ancient roots, and even now, both traditional and modern sports are still practiced. Freestyle wrestling has been traditionally regarded as Azerbaijan's national sport, however today, the most popular sports in Azerbaijan are football and chess.-Wrestling:Wrestling remains a...

 • Belarus • Belgium

Sport in Belgium

Sport in Belgium plays a prominent role in the society. As of 2010, Belgium counted around 17,000 sport clubs with approximately 1.35 million members, thus 13% of the Belgian population is involved in sport...

 • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria

Sport in Bulgaria

Bulgaria has established traditions in great variety of sports.- Volleyball :In its men's national volleyball side, controlled by the Bulgarian Volleyball Federation, Bulgaria fields one of the leading volleyball teams in Europe and the world. the team held 4th place in the world according to FIVB...

 • Croatia

Sport in Croatia

Sport in Croatia has significant role in Croatian culture, and many local sports clubs as well as the Croatian national squads enjoy strong followings in the country. The most enduring sport by far in Croatia is football, and is played on amateur and professional levels amongst all age groups...

 • Cyprus

Sport in Cyprus

Cyprus due to its population and size does not have many international sporting achievements. Most sports are governed by associations under the umbrella of the Cyprus Sport Organisation .-Football:...

 • Czech Republic

Sport in the Czech Republic

Sport plays a significant part in the life of many Czechs who are generally loyal supporters of their favourite teams or individuals.The two leading sports in the Czech Republic are football and ice hockey, both drawing the largest attntion of both the media and supporters...

 • Denmark • Estonia

Sport in Estonia

Sport plays an important role in Estonian culture. Estonia first competed as a nation at the 1920 Summer Olympics, although the National Olympic Committee was established in 1923. Estonian athletes took part of the Olympic Games until the country was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. The 1980...

 • Faroe Islands • Finland

Sport in Finland

Sport is considered a national pastime in Finland and many Finns visit different sporting events regularly. Pesäpallo is the national sport of Finland, although the most popular forms of sport in terms of television viewers and media coverage are ice-hockey and Formula One.The most popular...

 • France

Sport in France

Sport plays an important role in French society and the country has a strong sporting history. The most-watched sports in France are football and rugby union.-Football:...

 • Georgia • Germany

Sport in Germany

In 2006 about 27.5 million people were members of the more than 991,000 sport clubs in Germany. Almost all sports clubs are represented by the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund .-Olympics:...

 • Gibraltar

Sport in Gibraltar

Sport plays a prominent role in Gibraltarian life. The range of sports practiced in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar is wide and varied in comparison to its size of less than 7km2. The Government of Gibraltar is committed to promote sport within The Rock and supports many local sports...

 • Greece

Sport in Greece

Greece has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades. Football in particular has seen a rapid transformation, with the Greek national football team winning the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship.Greek athletes have also achieved significant success and have won world...

 • Guernsey

Sport in Guernsey

Guernsey participates in its own right in the Commonwealth Games.Guernsey participates in the bi-annual Island Games, which it hosted in 1987 and 2003...

 • Hungary • Iceland

Sport in Iceland

Sports in Iceland are very popular. for nine recent years, Iceland remains a very healthy nation. Popular sports include handball, football, athletics, basketball, golf, volleyball, tennis, swimming, and chess; horseback riding on Icelandic horses is also popular.Team handball is often referred to...

 • Ireland • Isle of Man

Sport in the Isle of Man

For a small country, sport in the Isle of Man plays an important part in making the island known to the wider world. The principal international sporting event held on the island is the annual Isle of Man TT motorcycling event...

 • Italy

Sport in Italy

Italy has a long sporting tradition. In numerous sports, both individual and team, Italy has good representation and many successes.Football is the most popular sport in Italy. Basketball and volleyball are the next most popular/played, with Italy having a rich tradition in both...

 • Jersey

Sport in Jersey

In its own right Jersey participates in the Commonwealth Games and in the bi-annual Island Games, which it last hosted in 1997 and will next host in 2015. Jersey is a founder member of the Island Games Association and has participated in every Games since the first in 1985...

 • Kazakhstan • Kosovo

Sport in Kosovo

Several sports federations have been formed in Kosovo within the framework of Law No. 2003/24 "Law on Sport" passed by the Assembly of Kosovo in 2003. The law formally established a national Olympic Committee, regulated the establishment of sports federations and established guidelines for sports...

 • Latvia

Sport in Latvia

-Ice hockey:Ice hockey is the most popular sport in Latvia. It has one pro hockey league, there are also several amateur hockey leagues. Ice hockey has been played in Latvia since the 1920s. Latvia is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation , its national team has participated in...

 • Liechtenstein • Lithuania

Sport in Lithuania

Following independence in 1990, the Lithuanian government set up the Physical Education and Sports Department to manage physical education in the schools as well as sports administration in the country. Over the next few years, Lithuanian sports organizations established or re-established...

 • Luxembourg

Sport in Luxembourg

Unlike in most countries in Europe, sport in Luxembourg is not concentrated upon a particular national sport, but encompasses a number of sports, both team and individual...

 • Macedonia • Malta • Moldova

Sport in Moldova

The national sport of Moldova is trânta - a kind of wrestling.The most popular one is football.Rugby union is popular as well. Registered players have doubled and almost 10,000 spectators turn up at every European Nations Cup match. See Rugby union in Moldova. The most prestigious cycling race is...

 (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro

Sport in Montenegro

The Sport of Montenegro revolves mostly around team sports: football, basketball, water polo, volleyball and handball. Also involved are boxing, judo, karate, athletics, table tennis, and chess.Water polo is often referred to as a national sport...

 • Netherlands

Sport in the Netherlands

Approximately 4.5 million of the 16 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly....

 • Norway • Poland

Sport in Poland

Poland's sports include almost all sports, in particular: track & field, basketball, boxing, fencing, football, American football , handball, ice hockey, swimming, volleyball, and weightlifting. The first Polish Formula One driver, Robert Kubica, has also brought awareness of Formula One Racing to...

 • Portugal

Sport in Portugal

Football is the most popular and practised sport in Portugal. Other than football, many other professional or semi-professional well organized sport competitions take place every season in Portugal, including basketball, swimming, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, futsal, rink hockey, team handball,...

 • Romania

Sport in Romania

The most popular sport in Romania is football. Other popular sports include team handball, basketball, rugby union, tennis and gymnastics.-Football:...

 • Russia

Sport in Russia

Russia is a keen sporting country, successful at a number of sports and continuously finishing in the top rankings at the Olympic games. During the Soviet era the team placed first in the total number of medals won at 14 of its 18 appearances; with these performances, the USSR was the dominant...

 • San Marino • Serbia

Sport in Serbia

Sport in Serbia revolves mostly around team sports: football, basketball, water polo, volleyball, handball, and, more recently, tennis. The two main football clubs in Serbia are Red Star Belgrade and FK Partizan, both from capital Belgrade. Red Star is the only Serbian and former Yugoslav club that...

 • Slovakia • Slovenia

Sport in Slovenia

Sport in Slovenia is led by four main team sports: football, basketball, ice hockey, handball. Individual sports including tennis, cycling, athletics, and skiing are also popular. Slovenia also has competed in eleven summer and winter Olympic Games...

 • Spain

Sport in Spain

Sport in Spain in the second half of 20th century has always dominated by football. Other popular sport activities include basketball, tennis, cycling, handballs)], [[motorcycle sport|motorcycling]], [[Formula One]], [[water sports]], [[golf]], and [[skiing]]...

 • Svalbard • Sweden

Sport in Sweden

Sport is considered a national pastime in Sweden, and about half of the population actively takes part in sports activities. The most important all-embracing organisations for sports in Sweden are the Swedish Sports Confederation, and the Swedish Olympic Committee...

 • Switzerland

Sport in Switzerland

In Switzerland, most of the people have a regular sport activity and one of four is an active member of a sports club. The most important all-embracing organisations for sports in Switzerland are the Federal Office of Sport, and the Swiss Olympic Committee .Because of its varied landscape and...

 • Turkey • Ukraine

United Kingdom

Sport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has given birth to a range of major international sports including: Association football, rugby , cricket, golf, tennis, badminton, squash, rounders, hockey, boxing, snooker, billiards and curling...

England

Sport in England

Sport plays a prominent role in English life. Popular team sports in England are association football, cricket, rugby union and rugby league. Major individual sports include badminton, athletics, tennis, golf, motorsport and horseracing...

 • Northern Ireland

Sport in Northern Ireland

Sport in Northern Ireland is important in the lives of many people. Some sports are organised on an all-Ireland basis, for example rugby union, Gaelic football, basketball, hockey and cricket, whereas others, like association football, are organised on a separate basis for Northern Ireland.- Gaelic...

 • Scotland

Sport in Scotland

Sport plays a central role in Scottish culture. The temperate, oceanic climate has played a key part in the evolution of sport in Scotland, with all-weather sports like association football, rugby union and golf dominating the national sporting consciousness...

 • Wales

Sport in Wales

The most popular sports in Wales are rugby union and football. Like the other countries of the United Kingdom, Wales enjoys independent representation in major world sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup and in the Commonwealth Games, but competes as part of England in cricket...

Vatican City

European Union

North America

Canada

Greenland • Mexico

Sport in Mexico

Sport in Mexico are sporting activities of Mexico. Football is the most popular sport in Mexico. Boxing is the second biggest sport in Mexico. Charrería is Mexico's national sport...

 • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

United States

Sports in the United States

Sports in the United States is an important part of American culture. The four most popular team sports are ones that developed in North America: American football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey...

Alabama • Alaska

Sports in Alaska

Alaska is home to a number of sports teams and events, nearly all of which are based or located in Anchorage, the state's largest city. In Anchorage, the Sullivan Arena is home to the Alaska Aces of the ECHL and the Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves of the NCAA Division II...

 • Arizona • Arkansas • California

Sports in California

-International sports events:California has hosted the Olympic Games three times. Los Angeles, the largest city in the state, hosted both the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics. Squaw Valley, California hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics...

 • Colorado

Sports in Colorado

- Professional sports teams :thumb|upright|The [[Colorado Rockies]] [[National League]] baseball club at [[Coors Field]] in Denver.thumb|upright|[[Sports Authority Field at Mile High]], home of the [[Denver Broncos]] [[National Football League]] club and the [[Denver Outlaws]] [[Major League...

 • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia

Sports in Georgia (U.S. state)

Sports in Georgia include professional teams, Olympic Games contenders and medalists, collegiate teams in major and small-school conferences and associations, and active amateur teams and individual sports.-Baseball:...

 • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Montana • Kansas • Kentucky

Sports in Kentucky

-High school sports:Despite the national stereotype that Kentucky is a diehard basketball state, at the high school level the state produces many times over more top nationally ranked football players than basketball...

 • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts

Sports in Massachusetts

Sports in Massachusetts have a long history with both amateur athletics and professional teams. Most of the major professional teams have won multiple championships in their respective leagues. Massachusetts teams have won 6 Stanley Cups , 17 NBA Championships , 3 Super Bowls , and 8 World Series...

 • Michigan • Minnesota

Sports in Minnesota

Sports in Minnesota include professional teams in all major sports, Olympic Games contenders and medalists, especially in the Winter Olympics, collegiate teams in major and small-school conferences and associations, and active amateur teams and individual sports...

 • Mississippi • Missouri • Nebraska

Sports in Nebraska

There are a variety of sports in Nebraska. Private organizations, colleges and universities and other clubs across the state that offer sports throughout Nebraska.-Professional sports:The following are professional sports played in Nebraska....

 • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York

Sports in New York

-Professional teams:-Teams which are no longer in New York:-Defunct:-NCAA:-NAIA:...

 • North Carolina

Sports in North Carolina

Athletes and sports teams from North Carolina compete at every level of competition in the United States including NASCAR the NBA, the NFL, and the NHL along with several colleges and universities in various conferences across an array of divisions.-Baseball:...

 • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas

Sports in Texas

Texas is home of several national sports league franchises among other professional sports, being the second most populated U.S. state. Since the state is located in the South Central United States, most teams are part of the Central / South or West league divisions, with the notable exception of...

 • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin

Sports in Wisconsin

Wisconsin sports includes numerous professional and amateur sporting teams, events, and venues located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.-Professional teams:...

 • Wyoming

District of Columbia

Sports in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.-area athletes and sports teams participate in all levels of sports competition. The region is home to several major sports venues including the Verizon Center, RFK Stadium, FedEx Field, and Nationals Park...

 (Washington, D.C.)

Central America

Belize

Sport in Belize

Sports have always played a major part of Belizean culture. While Belize has never been an international sporting power, the nation's athletes have taken their discipline seriously. Sports in the country is plagued by a lack of finance and sporting facilities, and little emphasis on sports as an...

 • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras

Sport in Honduras

The most popular sport in Honduras is football, the governing body of football in Honduras is the Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras. Honduras has taken part in the Summer Olympics eight times, and the Winter Olympics in 1992. Other sports played in Honduras include tennis, baseball...

 • Nicaragua • Panama

Caribbean

Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados

Sport in Barbados

Sports in Barbados are many and varied. The large Barbadian diaspora across the globe and wide-scale availability of International television covered on the local cable service and DirecTV has meant that Barbadians have always been up to date on international trends. Barbadians now follow a wide...

 • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba

Sport in Cuba

Sports are Cuba's national passion. Due to historical associations with the United States, many Cubans participate in sports which are popular in North America, rather than sports traditionally promoted in other Latin American nations. Baseball is by far the most popular; other sports and pastimes...

 • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica

Sport in Jamaica

Sport in Jamaica is a significant part of Jamaican culture. The most popular sports are those imported from Britain. The most popular sport is cricket; other popular sports include association football, athletics, and netball. Other sports such as rugby league and rugby union are...

 • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands

Oceania(includes the continent of Australia

Sport in Australia

Australia has a long sporting history dating back to the mid 1800s. By the 1920s, a number of sports were being played by both men and women, including cricket, badminton, judo, swimming, tennis, netball, lacrosse, golf, hockey and various codes of football....

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Australasia

Australia

Sport in Australia

Australia has a long sporting history dating back to the mid 1800s. By the 1920s, a number of sports were being played by both men and women, including cricket, badminton, judo, swimming, tennis, netball, lacrosse, golf, hockey and various codes of football....

Dependencies/Territories of Australia

Christmas Island • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • Norfolk Island

New Zealand

Sport in New Zealand

Sport in New Zealand largely reflects its British colonial heritage. Some of the most popular sports in New Zealand, namely rugby, cricket and netball, are primarily played in Commonwealth of Nations countries...

Melanesia

Fiji

Sport in Fiji

The national sport of Fiji is considered to be rugby union , however rugby league and association football are also widely played....

 • Indonesia

Sport in Indonesia

Sports are popular in Indonesia from both the participation and spectating aspect. Racket sports, like badminton, are popular sports in Indonesia. Sporting events in Indonesia are organized by the Indonesian National Sport Committee...

 (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea

Sport in Papua New Guinea

Sport is an important part of the national culture. Rugby League is the most popular Sport in Papua New Guinea.Other popular Sports include most Football codes , Cricket, Volleyball, Softball, Netball and Basketball...

 • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •

Micronesia

Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (US

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • Wake Island (USA) •

Polynesia

American Samoa (USA) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands

Sport in the Cook Islands

Rugby union is the most popular sport in the Cook Islands with association football and rugby league also popular. In September 2009, the country hosted the 2009 Pacific Mini Games.-Rugby union:The Cook Islands is a tier three rugby union playing nation...

 (NZ

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

) • Adamstown • Samoa

Sport in Samoa

The main sports played in Samoa are rugby union and kilikiti.-Rugby union:Rugby union is very popular in Samoa and the national team nicknamed the 'Manu' Samoa, is consistently competitive against teams from vastly more populous nations...

 • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga

Sport in Tonga

The national sport of Tonga is rugby union. Association football has a following, while judo, surfing, volleyball, and cricket have gained in popularity in recent years. Rugby league is also played.-Rugby union:Rugby union is the most popular sport in Tonga...

 • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)

South America

Sport in South America

There are a wide range of Sports played in the continent of South America, with football being the most popular.Other popular Sports include Basketball, Rugby union, Tennis, Golf, Volleyball, Hockey, Beach Volleyball, Baseball and Motorsports....

Argentina

Sport in Argentina

The practice of sports in Argentina is varied due to the country's multicultural population and its mostly mild climate. However, football is by far the most popular sport in the country...

 • Bolivia • Brazil

Sport in Brazil

Sports in Brazil are those that are widely practiced and popular in the country, as well as others which originated there or have some cultural significance. The Brazilian people are very involved in sports. Football is the most popular sport in Brazil...

 • Chile

Sport in Chile

Sport in Chile is performed in both amateur and professional levels, practiced both at home and abroad to develop and improve, or simply represent the country. The most representative sport in Chile is football, however, the most successful is tennis...

 • Colombia

Sport in Colombia

Sports in Colombia refers to the practice of sports in Colombia. There are professional sports leagues as well as amateur leagues for numerous sports. Association football and cycling are the most popular sports in Colombia...

 • Ecuador

Sport in Ecuador

Football is the most popular sport, followed by basketball, volleyball, baseball, and tennis.Since 2005, Ecuador has been greatly involved in sports because of the hosting of the Guayaquil Marathon.-Football:Football is the most popular sport in Ecuador...

 • Falkland Islands

Sport in the Falkland Islands

Sport in the Falkland Islands is restricted by the islands' low population, and generally scattered population. Nonetheless, it has been able to send teams to the Commonwealth Games, and the Island Games....

 • Guyana • Paraguay

Sport in Paraguay

Sport in Paraguay is an important part of Paraguayan national culture. Football is easily the most popular sport, while other sports such as rugby union, volleyball, basketball, and tennis all have significant popularity...

 • Peru

Sport in Peru

-Football:Football is the most popular sport in Peru, and they have competed in four FIFA World Cups.*1930*1970 *1978 *1982The national team has also won two Copa América trophies: 1939 and 1975....

 • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

Sport in Venezuela

The major sports in Venezuela are baseball, and football. Baseball in Venezuela originates with the early twentieth century cultural influence of United States oil companies. The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League was established in 1945. Football in Venezuela lags behind baseball, but its...

South Atlantic

Ascension Island • Saint Helena • Tristan da Cunha

History of sports

• Sports history organizations

• History of American football
  History of American football
  American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origin in varieties of football played in Britain in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal and/or run over a line....
  
  
• History of archery
  History of archery
  The bow and arrow are known to have been invented by the end of the Upper Paleolithic.Projectile points on are known from earlier prehistory, dating to the Middle Paleolithic...
  
  
• History of association football
• History of Australian rules football
  History of Australian rules football
  The history of Australian rules football is claimed to have begun in Melbourne in 1858 with the earliest recorded organised football matches organised by Tom Wills and other early proponents. The earliest recorded experimental match was played at the Richmond Paddock on 31 July...
  
  
• History of baseball
• History of basketball
  History of basketball
  The history of basketball starts with James Naismith.-Invention of the game:James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. Massachusetts had cold winters, and people wanted a game that could be played inside. Buck was a Canadian teacher, born in Almonte, Ontario on the 16th of November, 1861...
  
  
• History of chess
  History of chess
  The history of chess spans some 1500 years. The earliest predecessors of the game originated in India, before the 6th century AD. From India, the game spread to Persia. When the Arabs conquered Persia, chess was taken up by the Muslim world and subsequently spread to Southern Europe. In Europe,...
  
  
• History of cricket
  History of cricket
  The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877...
  
  
• History of cue sports
• History of curling
• History of cycling
  History of cycling
  -Racing:The first documented cycling race was a 1,200 metre race held on May 31, 1868 at the Parc of Saint-Cloud, Paris. It was won by expatriate Englishman James Moore who rode a bicycle with solid rubber tires...
  
  
• History of field hockey
  History of field hockey
  Games similar to field hockey have a long history around the world. The modern standard variant of field hockey was developed in nineteenth century England.-Games similar to hockey outside the West:...
  
  
• History of figure skating
  History of figure skating
  The history of figure skating stretches back to prehistoric times, when archaeological evidence of the activity has been found. Figure skating is one branch of ice skating, which has divided itself into several separate sports since its prehistoric beginnings, figure skating being one of...
  
  
• History of Formula One
  History of Formula One
  The history of Formula One has its roots in the European Grand Prix motor racing of the 1920s and 1930s. However, the foundation of Formula One began in 1946 with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's standardisation of rules. A World Drivers' Championship followed in 1950...
  
  
• History of hang gliding
• History of the Gaelic Athletic Association
  History of the Gaelic Athletic Association
  The history of the Gaelic Athletic Association is much shorter than the history of Gaelic games themselves. Hurling and caid were recorded in early Irish history and they pre-date recorded history...
  
  
• History of hurling
  History of Hurling
  The history of hurling is long and often unclear, stretching back over three millennia. References to stick-and-ball games are found in Irish mythology...
  
  
• History of lacrosse
  History of Lacrosse
  Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by all eastern Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians tribes in what is now Canada. The game has been modernized extensively by European immigrants to create its current form....
  
  
• History of martial arts
  History of martial arts
  The early history of martial arts is difficult to reconstruct. Inherent patterns of human aggression which inspire practice of mock combat and optimization of serious close combat as cultural universals are doubtlessly inherited from the pre-human stage, and were made into an "art" from the...
  
  
• History of netball
  History of netball
  The history of netball can be traced to the early development of basketball. A year after basketball was invented in 1891, the sport was modified for women to accommodate social conventions regarding their participation in sport, giving rise to women's basketball. Variations of women's basketball...
  
  
• History of orienteering
  History of orienteering
  The history of orienteering begins in the late 19th century in Sweden, where it originated as military training. The actual term "orienteering" was first used in 1886 at the Swedish Military Academy Karlberg and meant the crossing of unknown land with the aid of a map and a compass...
  
  
• History of professional wrestling
  History of professional wrestling
  Professional wrestling in the United States, up until the late 1920s, was viewed as a legitimate sport. Across the country there were "iron men" who would stand in the center of the ring, usually at state fairs, and literally shout out a challenge to anyone with the nerve to enter the ring...
  
  
• History of rodeo
  History of rodeo
  - Early history of rodeo :The rodeo was not originally a sporting event, but an integral part of cattle-ranching in areas of Spanish influence. The working rodeo was retained in parts of the US Southwest even after the US-Mexico War...
  
  
• History of roller derby
  History of roller derby
  The history of roller derby traces the evolution of roller skating races into a unique sport which has undergone several boom-and-bust cycles throughout most of the 20th century...
  
  
• History of rowing
  History of rowing
  The history of rowing is the tale of one of the oldest sports in the world. What began as a method of transport and warfare, eventually became a sport with a wide following, and a part of the cultural identity of the English speaking world....
  
  
• History of rugby league
  History of rugby league
  The history of rugby league as a separate form of rugby football goes back to 1895 in Huddersfield, Northern England when the Northern Rugby Football Union broke away from the established Rugby Football Union to administer its own separate competition. Similar schisms occurred later in Australia...
  
  
• History of rugby union
  History of rugby union
  The history of rugby union follows from various football games played long before the 19th century, but it was not until the middle of that century that rules were formulated and codified....
  
  
• History of skiing
  History of skiing
  Skiing, or traveling over snow on wooden runners, has a recorded history of almost five millennia.- Ancient history :The first hints to the existence of skis are on 4500 to 5000 year old rock drawings, e.g. at Rødøy in Norway or at Steinkjer , which depict a man on skis holding a stick...
  
  
• History of snooker
  History of snooker
  The game of snooker is a cue sport which emerged in its modern form in the late 19th century, with roots going back to the 16th century form of English billiards. Billiards was popular among the British Armed Forces stationed in India. As billiards was only a two player game, new games such as life...
  
  
• History of surfing
  History of surfing
  The riding of waves has likely existed since humans began swimming in the ocean. In this sense bodysurfing is the oldest type of wave-catching. Standing up on what we now call a surfboard is a relatively recent innovation developed by the Polynesians...
  
  
• History of swimming
  History of swimming
  Swimming has been recorded since prehistoric times; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to Stone Age paintings from around 7,000 years ago. Written references date from 2000 BC. Some of the earliest references to swimming include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible, Beowulf,...
  
  
• History of tennis
  History of tennis
  Most historians believe that tennis originated in France in the 12th century, but the ball was then struck with the palm of the hand. It was not until the 16th century that rackets came into use, and the game began to be called "tennis." It was popular in England and France, although the game was...
  
  
• History of water polo
  History of water polo
  The history of water polo as a team sport began in late 19th century England and Scotland, where water sports were a feature of county fairs and festivals...
  
  
• History of wrestling

Rules

• Goal
  Goal (sport)
  Goal refers to a method of scoring in many sports. It can also refer to the physical structure or area of the playing surface where scoring occurs....
  
  
• Open
  Open (sport)
  An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to all people, regardless of their age, ability, gender, or other categorization. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, quizbowl, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess....
  
  
• Sudden death
• Offside
  Offside (sport)
  Offside is a rule used by several different team sports regulating aspects of player positioning. It is particularly used in field sports with rules deriving from the various codes of football, such as association football, rugby and field hockey, as well as in ice hockey.Offside rules are...
  
  

Sports in court

General

• Court of Arbitration for Sport
  Court of Arbitration for Sport
  The Court of Arbitration for Sport is an international arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sport. Its headquarters are in Lausanne and its courts are located in New York, Sydney and Lausanne, Switzerland...
  
  
• List of doping cases in sport

Association football

• Bosman ruling
  Bosman ruling
  Union Royale Belge des Sociétés de Football Association ASBL v Jean-Marc Bosman is a 1995 European Court of Justice decision concerning freedom of movement for workers, freedom of association, and direct effect of article 39 of the EC Treaty...
  
  
• Webster ruling
  Webster ruling
  The Webster ruling is a test case in association football law involving Andy Webster, a defender formerly with Heart of Midlothian football club in Edinburgh, Scotland...
  
  

Baseball

• Federal Baseball Club v. National League
  Federal Baseball Club v. National League
  Federal Baseball Club v. National League, , is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply to Major League Baseball.-Background:...
  
  
• Flood v. Kuhn
  Flood v. Kuhn
  Flood v. Kuhn was a 1972 United States Supreme Court decision upholding, by a 5–3 margin, the antitrust exemption first granted to Major League Baseball in Federal Baseball Club v. National League. It arose from a challenge by St. Louis Cardinals' outfielder Curt Flood when he refused to be...
  
  
• Seitz decision
  Seitz decision
  The Seitz decision was a ruling by arbitrator Peter Seitz on December 23, 1975 which declared that Major League Baseball players became free agents upon playing one year for their team without a contract, effectively nullifying baseball's reserve clause...
  
  
• Toolson v. New York Yankees
  Toolson v. New York Yankees
  Toolson v. New York Yankees is a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld, 7–2, the antitrust exemption first granted to Major League Baseball three decades earlier in Federal Baseball Club v. National League...
  
  

Basketball

• Haywood v. National Basketball Association
  Haywood v. National Basketball Association
  Haywood v. National Basketball Association, 401 U.S. 1204 , was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled, 7–2, against the National Basketball Association’s old requirement that a player may not be drafted by a NBA team unless he waited four years following his graduation from high...
  
  
• Robertson v. National Basketball Association

Other sports

• Kolpak ruling

Sports and media

• Broadcasting of sports events
  Broadcasting of sports events
  The broadcasting of sports events is the coverage of sports as a television program, on radio and other broadcasting media. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing the events as they happen.-United States:...
  
  
• Sports Emmy Award
• Sports in film
• Sports journalism
  Sports journalism
  Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics and events.While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly called the toy department, because sports journalists do not concern themselves with the 'serious' topics covered by the news desk, sports...
  
  
• Sports radio
  Sports radio
  Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and...
  
  
• World record
  World record
  A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...
  
  

Sports ethics and conduct

• Gamesmanship
  Gamesmanship
  Gamesmanship is the use of dubious methods to win a game. It has been described as "Pushing the rules to the limit without getting caught, using whatever dubious methods possible to achieve the desired end"...
  
  
• Racism in sport
  Racism in sport
  Racism in sports is a problem which is manifest around the world. It has led to a wide range of controversial incidents which have been reported in the media....
  
  
• Sportsmanship
  Sportsmanship
  Sportsmanship is an aspiration or ethos that a sport or activity will be enjoyed for its own sake, with proper consideration for fairness, ethics, respect, and a sense of fellowship with one's competitors...
  
  
  • Spirit of the Game in Ultimate
    Ultimate (sport)
    Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
    
    
• Violence in sports
  Violence in sports
  Violence in sports refers to physical acts committed in contact sports such as American football, ice hockey, rugby football, soccer, boxing, mixed martial arts, wrestling, and water polo beyond the normal levels of contact expected while playing the sport...
  
  
  • Violence in baseball
    Violence in baseball
    Violence can occur in the American sport of baseball through many incidents including pitchers intentionally hitting a player with the ball , a grudge between a pitcher and a hitter, a rivalry between the two teams in the match up, or a play at a base thought of as unnecessarily rough...
    
    
  • Violence in ice hockey
    Violence in ice hockey
    Violence has been a part of ice hockey since at least the early 1900s. According to the book Hockey: A People's History, in 1904 alone, four players were killed during hockey games from the frequent brawls and violent stickwork....
    
    

Sports participants

• Animals in sport
  Animals in sport
  Animals in sport are a specific form of working animals. Many animals, at least in more commercial sports, are highly trained. Two of the most common animals in sport are horses and dogs. Using animals in sports raises concerns for animals rights....
  
  
  • Sport horse
    Sport horse
    Sport horse, or Sporthorse, is a term used to describe a type of horse, rather than any particular breed. The term generally refers to horses bred for the traditional Olympic equestrian sporting events of dressage, eventing, show jumping, and combined driving. The precise definition varies...
    
    
• Athlete
• Coach
  Coach (sport)
  In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
  
  
• Fan
• Scout
  Scout (sport)
  In professional sports, scouts are trained talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization...
  
  
• Sports commentator
  Sports commentator
  In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
  
  
• Sportsperson
• Student athlete
  Student athlete
  A student athlete is a term used to describe a participant in an organized competitive sport sponsored by the educational institution in which he or she is enrolled, a term primarily used in the United States. It is used to describe the direct balance of a full-time student and a full-time athlete...
  
  

Sports venues

• Sport venue
  Sport venue
  Sport venue is an arena, a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.-Types of sports venues:*Sport hall*Motorsport venues *Horse racing venues *Swimming pool*Shooting range*Bullring...
  
  
• Arena
  Arena
  An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the...
  
  
• Australian rules football playing field
  Australian rules football playing field
  An Australian rules football playing field is a venue where the sport of Australian rules football is played.The playing field is typically a large oval-shaped grass surface . These fields may vary especially for variations of the game...
  
  
• Baseball park
  Baseball park
  A baseball park, also known as a baseball stadium, ball park, or ballpark is a venue where baseball is played. It consists of the playing field and the surrounding spectator seating...
  
  
• Billiard hall
• Game court
  Game court
  Gamecourt is one of the names for a multisport gamecourt more commonly referred to by the generic term "sport court." Gamecourts, or game-courts, typically incorporate basketball, paddle tennis, volleyball, and up to a dozen more court sports and activities within the same playing area and are...
  
  
• Gym
  Gym
  The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
  
  
• Gymkhana
  Gymkhana
  Gymkhana is a typical Anglo-Indian expression, which is derived from the Hindi-Urdu word for "racket court," is an Indian term which originally referred to a place where sporting events take place. The meaning then altered to denote a place where skill-based contests were held...
  
  
• Ice hockey arena
  Ice hockey arena
  An ice hockey arena is a sport venue in which an ice hockey competition is held. A lot of hockey arenas were designed for use by multiple types of sport.-Canada:...
  
  
• Ice rink
  Ice rink
  An ice rink is a frozen body of water and/or hardened chemicals where people can skate or play winter sports. Besides recreational ice skating, some of its uses include ice hockey, figure skating and curling as well as exhibitions, contests and ice shows...
  
  
• Olympic-size swimming pool
• Roller rink
  Roller rink
  A roller rink is a hard surface used for roller skating or inline skating. This includes roller hockey, speed skating, and recreational skating...
  
  
• Speed skating rink
  Speed skating rink
  A speed skating rink is an ice rink in which a speed skating competition is held.-The rink:...
  
  
• Stadium
  Stadium
  A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...
  
  

Sports venue features

• Bleacher
  Bleacher
  Bleachers is an American term used to describe the raised, tiered rows of seats found at sports fields or at other spectator events...
  
  
• Club seating
  Club seating
  Club Level Seating is a special section of seating in modern sports stadiums.The Club Level is usually located towards the middle of the stage of seating sections, above the lower deck but below the upper deck. They are usually right next to the Luxury Boxes, either right above, right below, or...
  
  
• Field house
  Field House
  Field House or Fieldhouse is a common name for indoor sports arenas and stadiums, mostly used for college basketball, volleyball, or ice hockey.-Colorado:*Balch Fieldhouse, University of Colorado...
  
  
• Grandstand
  Grandstand
  A grandstand is a large and normally permanent structure for seating spectators, most often at a racetrack. This includes both auto racing and horse racing. The grandstand is in essence like a single section of a stadium, but differs from a stadium in that it does not wrap all or most of the way...
  
  
• Dohyō
  Dohyo
  thumb|A dohyōThe dohyō is the ring in which sumo wrestling bouts are held. A modern dohyo is a circle of rice-straw bales 4.55 meters in diameter, mounted on a square platform of clay 6.7m on a side, and 34 to 60 cm high. The surface is covered by sand.A new dohyō is built prior to each...
  
  
• Groundshare
  Groundshare
  Groundshare is the principle of sharing a stadium between two local sport teams. This is usually done for the purpose of reducing the costs of either construction of two separate facilities and related maintenance. -Intersport Groundshares:...
  
  
• Leisure centre
  Leisure centre
  A leisure centre in the UK and Canada is a purpose built building or site, usually owned and operated by the city, borough council or municipal district council, where people go to keep fit or relax through using the facilities.- Typical Facilities :...
  
  
• Luxury box
  Luxury box
  A Luxury box is a special seating section located within stadiums, arenas and other sporting and entertainment venues. They are typically located in the midsection of a stadium grandstand, usually providing the best views of the event...
  
  
• Medialuna
  Medialuna
  A medialuna is crescent-shaped corral used for rodeos, the official sport in Chile. They are generally 64–66 meters in diameter...
  
  
• Palace of Sports
  Palace of Sports
  The Kiev Palace of Sports is situated in the center of Kiev, Ukraine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River.It was built in 1960, under the leadership of Mykhailo Hrechyna and Aleksei Zavarov, as a major indoor sports arena....
  
  
• Palaestra
  Palaestra
  The palaestra was the ancient Greek wrestling school. The events that did not require a lot of space, such as boxing and wrestling, were practised there...
  
  
• Personal seat license
  Personal Seat License
  A personal seat license, or PSL, gives the holder the right to buy season tickets for a certain seat in a stadium. This holder can sell the seat license to someone else if they no longer wish to purchase season tickets. However, if the seat license holder chooses not to sell the seat licenses and...
  
  
• Turf management
  Turf management
  Turf management or pitchcare describes the work needed to keep a sporting pitch ready for use. This article looks at the various types of sporting pitches and the type of challenges which they present....
  
  

Game play

• Power play
  Power play (sport)
  "Power play" is a sporting term used in various games.*In ice hockey, a team is said to be on a power play when at least one opposing player is serving a penalty, and the team has a numerical advantage on the ice...
  
  
• Losing streak
  Losing streak (sport)
  In sports, a losing streak is an uninterrupted string of contests lost by a team or individual. A losing streak can last as few as two games, or it may last much longer...
  
  
• Falcon
  Falcon (sport)
  Falcon is a tongue-in-cheek term used, often in different forms of football, to describe an accidental knock to the head with the ball.The phrase originated from rugby league in Australia. On The Footy Show, casual presenter Mario Fenech's weekly segment was introduced by a piece of footage from...
  
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• Grind
  Grind (sport)
  Grinding is a sliding stunt performed in many extreme sports. Stances in which slides are performed are known as grinds.Grinding is performed by sliding across the top of an obstacle, and can be accomplished in a number of ways...
  
  

Sports management

• Demonstration sport
  Demonstration sport
  A demonstration sport is a sport which is played to promote itself, most commonly during the Olympic Games, but also at other sporting events.Demonstration sports were officially introduced in 1912 Summer Olympics, when Sweden decided to include glima, traditional Icelandic wrestling, in the...
  
  
• Sports marketing
  Sports marketing
  Sport marketing is divided into three sectors. The first is the advertising of sport and sports associations such as the Olympics, Spanish Football league and the NFL. The second concerns the use of sporting events, sporting teams and individual athletes to promote various products. The third is...
  
  
• Sponsor
• Scout
  Scout (sport)
  In professional sports, scouts are trained talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization...
  
  

Sports culture

• Most popular sport by country
• National sport
  National sport
  A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be an intrinsic part of the culture of a nation. Some sports are de facto national sports, as baseball is in the U.S., while others are de jure as lacrosse and ice hockey are in Canada.-De jure national sports:-De facto...
  
  
• Nudity in sport
  Nudity in sport
  Nudity in sport is uncommon but has not been totally absent from ancient or current sporting activities.-History:...
  
  
• Performance art
  Performance art
  In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
  
  
• Sports memorabilia
  Sports memorabilia
  The term sports memorabilia usually refers to anything that can be directly connected to a sports event or personality. These items are generally gathered by the fans of the particular sport, athlete or team that the item signifies or by collectors who find value in the rarity time-value of these...
  
  
• Sporting club

Sports and politics

• Nationalism and sport
  Nationalism and sport
  Nationalism and sport are often intertwined, as sports provide a venue for symbolic competition between nations; sports competition often reflects national conflict, and in fact has often been a tool of diplomacy...
  
  
• UK Sport
  UK Sport
  UK Sport is the UK Government's organisation for directing the development of sport within the home countries.-History:The Sports Council previously had been formed in 1972, and had the motto Sport for All. There was also the Central Council of Physical Recreation. In July 1994 it was decided to...
  
  
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  Department for Culture, Media and Sport
  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, such as broadcasting and internet....
  
  
• Racism in sport
  Racism in sport
  Racism in sports is a problem which is manifest around the world. It has led to a wide range of controversial incidents which have been reported in the media....
  
  
• Sport policies of the European Union
  Sport policies of the European Union
  The European Union plays a minor and mostly indirect policy role in sport, because sport is normally considered to be outside the competences conferred by the member states to the European Union and sport is in general organised internally, on a European continental level , or globally.- Direct...
  
  

Organized sports

• Division
  Division (sport)
  In sports, a division is a group of teams who compete against each other for a championship.-League system:In sports using a league system , a division consists a group of teams who play a sport at a similar competitive level...
  
  
• Multi-sport events
• Sports league
  Sports league
  League is a term commonly used to describe a group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can be an...
  
  
• Olympic Games
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
  
• Regulation of sport
  Regulation of sport
  The regulation of sport is usually done by a regulatory agency for each sport, resulting in a core of relatively invariant, agreed rules. People responsible for leisure activities often seek recognition and respectability as sports by joining sports federations such as the International Olympic...
  
  
• Sport governing body
  Sport governing body
  A sport governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sport governing bodies come in various forms, and have a variety of regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport...
  
  
• Trial
  Trial (sport)
  Trial may refer to the following types of competitions.*Time trials*Car or motor trial, motoring competitions of skill and/or reliability*Motorcycle trials, an obstacle motorcycle competition...
  
  

Sports governing bodies

World governing bodies of various notable sports:

• The Olympic Games
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
  : International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
  
   (IOC)
• Baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
  : International Baseball Federation
  International Baseball Federation
  The International Baseball Federation is the worldwide governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee as overseeing, deciding and executing the policy of the bat-and-ball sport of baseball at the international level...
  
   (IBAF), but several countries/regions have their own professional bodies with rules variations, including Cuba, US/Canada, and Japan
• Basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
  : International Basketball Federation
  International Basketball Federation
  The International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA , from its French name Fédération Internationale de Basketball, is an association of national organizations which governs international competition in basketball...
  
   (FIBA), but national pro leagues may diverge from its rules, as in the US
• Cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
  : International Cricket Council
  International Cricket Council
  The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...
  
   (ICC)
• Cue sports: World Confederation of Billiard Sports
  World Confederation of Billiard Sports
  The World Confederation of Billiard Sports is the international umbrella organization encompassing the major cue sports , including carom billiards, pool games of several varieties, and snooker. The confederation is relatively new, having been founded in 1992...
  
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  • Carom billiards: Union Mondiale de Billard
    Union Mondiale de Billard
    The Union Mondiale de Billard is the world governing body for carom billiard games. The organization was founded in Madrid, Spain on 1 June 1959, and is dedicated to promoting the modern carom billiards games...
    
     (UMB)
  • Pocket billiards
    Pocket billiards
    Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
    
     (pool): World Pool-Billiard Association
    World Pool-Billiard Association
    The World Pool-Billiard Association is the international governing body for pocket billiards . The group was formed in 1987, and was initially headed by a provisional board of directors consisting of representatives from Japan, the United States, Sweden, and Germany...
    
     (WPA)
  • Snooker
    Snooker
    Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
    
     and English billiards
    English billiards
    English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, is a hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table. Billiards is less well known as "the English game", "the all-in game" and "the common game".The game is for...
    
    : World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
    World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
    The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, often abbreviated to the WPBSA, founded in 1968 and based in Bristol, England, United Kingdom is the governing body of professional snooker and English billiards...
    
     (WPBSA or World Snooker)
• Football
  Football
  Football may refer to one of a number of team sports which all involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer"...
  
   variants have many governing bodies, with widely divergent rules:
  • Association football (soccer): International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
  • Gridiron football
    Gridiron football
    Gridiron football , sometimes known as North American football, is an umbrella term for related codes of football primarily played in the United States and Canada. The predominant forms of gridiron football are American football and Canadian football...
    
     is divided in into:
    • American football
      American football
      American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
      
      : International Federation of American Football
      International Federation of American Football
      International Federation of American Football is the international governing body of American football associations. Its headquarters are in La Courneuve, France, and its current president is Tommy Wiking...
      
       (IFAF)
    • Canadian football
      Canadian football
      Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
      
      : Canadian Football League
      Canadian Football League
      The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
      
       (CFL)
  • Rugby football
    Rugby football
    Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
    
     is divided into two "codes" or sets of rules:
    • Rugby League
      Rugby league
      Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
      
      : Rugby League International Federation
      Rugby League International Federation
      The Rugby League International Federation is the world governing body of rugby league football. It was formed in 1998 in Sydney, Australia. Its purpose is to, "foster, develop, extend, govern and administer the game of Rugby League throughout the world". Its headquarters are in Sydney, Australia,...
      
       (RLIF)
    • Rugby union
      Rugby union
      Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
      
      : International Rugby Board
      International Rugby Board
      The International Rugby Board is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. It was founded in 1886 as the International Rugby Football Board by the unions of Scotland, Wales and Ireland. England refused to join until 1890. The International Rugby Football Board changed its name to the...
      
       (IRB)
  • Australian-rules football: AFL Commission
    AFL Commission
    The AFL Commission is the official governing body of the Australian Football League , the elite national Australian rules football competition....
    
    
  • Gaelic football
    Gaelic football
    Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
    
    : Gaelic Athletic Association
    Gaelic Athletic Association
    The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
    
     (GAA)
  • International-rules football: A conference of the AFL and GAA
• Golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
   has no single governing body, but is divided nationally and regionally.
• Ice hockey
  Ice hockey
  Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
  
  : International Ice Hockey Federation
  International Ice Hockey Federation
  The International Ice Hockey Federation is the worldwide governing body for ice hockey and in-line hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 70 members...
  
   (IIHF)
• Motor racing:
  • Car racing
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...
    
    : International Federation of the Automobile
    Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
    The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile is a non-profit association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users...
    
     (FIA)
  • Motorcycle racing
    Motorcycle racing
    Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.-Motorcycle racing:...
    
    : International Motorcycling Federation
    Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme
    The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme is the governing body of motorcycle racing. It represents 103 national motorcycle federations that are divided into six regional continental unions....
    
     (FIM)
  • Motorboat racing: International Motonautical Union
    Union Internationale Motonautique
    The Union Internationale Motonautique is the international governing body of powerboating, based in the Principality of Monaco. It was founded in 1922, in Belgium, as the Union Internationale du Yachting Automobile....
    
     (UIM) and others, depending on boat type
• Tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
  : International Tennis Federation
  International Tennis Federation
  The International Tennis Federation is the governing body of world tennis, made up of 205 national tennis associations.It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation by 12 national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France on 1 March 1913...
  
   (ITF)

Sports-related lists

• List of sportspeople
• List of sports attendance figures
• List of professional sports leagues

External links

• Merriam-Webster dictionary entry
• Ancient Olympic Games
• Sport and apartheid