The following is a list of sports/games , divided by category.
According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games .[ 1]
Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville .
Wingsuit flying
Aquatic and paddle sports [ edit ]
These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).
Rafting
Other paddling sports [ edit ]
Greece – Hungary water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples , Italy )
Aquatic ball sports [ edit ]
Competitive swimming [ edit ]
Subsurface and recreational [ edit ]
Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.
Awaiting a pitch: batter, catcher, and umpire in baseball
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics .
Tyrone try for a goal against Westmeath in a Gaelic football match
A 7-meter throw in Handball .
Stick and ball family [ edit ]
Ice hockey players Roman Hamrlik and Joffrey Lupul dueling for position
Cillian Buckley in action for Kilkenny against Galway in a hurling league game
An international match of volleyball .
Games involving opponents hitting a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
A game of squash
Games involving opponents hitting a ball against a wall/walls using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
Valencian pilota .
Racket (or racquet) sports[ edit ]
Sports that use a netted racket [ edit ]
Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle[ edit ]
Skateboard vert jump at the Sprite urban games 2006 in London .
Snowboard figure at the 2008 Shakedown
Surfing in Hawaii
Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
Canyoning
A track cycling Race
Sports using bicycles or unicycles .
Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts [ edit ]
A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Two men compete in freestyle wrestling .
A kick in kickboxing .
Ground fighting in MMA .
Weapons and kicking [ edit ]
Axe throwing at the Ming Culture Village, a theme park near the Yangshan Quarry , China
Two kendōka.
Australia vs Canada ultimate players WUGC 2012 in Japan. Ultimate Canada
Trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett at 2008 Canadian National Championships
The three components of triathlon: swimming, cycling, running
Decathlon, heptathlon, and the pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five-component contests that are scored together using one points system.
Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles
The start of a Formula One race in 2008
MotoGP racing
ATV racing on a motocross track
Parkour/Freerunning[ edit ]
Sport Parkour and Freerunning are empirically measured competitions of skill, speed or style on an obstacle based course. Self expression, demonstration of control and power are measured.
200 meters sprint
Windsurfing
United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield , 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form.
Sports using guns (firearms , air guns , etc.).
North Korean weightlifter Pak Hyon-Suk performing the snatch , one of the two lifts in the sport of Olympic weightlifting .
Sports falling into two or more categories.
Sports involving animals [ edit ]
Sports in which dogs participate.
Horse racing at Arlington Park , 2007
Sports using a horse.
Sometimes considered blood sports .
Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.
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.
Strategy board games [ edit ]
A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China
Competitive model sports [ edit ]
Different classification [ edit ]
Potentially other sports are listed here.
Athletics (track and field)[ edit ]
Pole vault
Sports played using electronic devices.
A snowboarder and a skier
A ski jumper using the V-style
Freestyle skiing
See #Skiing
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
Arm wrestling
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
Pool balls
Snooker.
Sports that involve teams.
Match of lacrosse
Jack and Jill competition, Lumberjack World Championships , Hayward, Wisconsin , 2007.
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
Fictional sports that are played in real life:
Miscellaneous sports [ edit ]
Logrolling