List of sports

The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games.[1]

## Acrobatic arts

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Main article: List of acrobatic activities

Cheerleading

* Artistic cycling
* Color guard (flag spinning)
* Dancing
* Breakdancing
* Dancesport
* Dragon dance and Lion dance
* Cheerleading
* Figure skating
* Freerunning
* High kick
* Motorcycle stunt riding
* Paragliding
* Parkour
* Pole sports
* Pole dance
* Quadrobics
* Trampolining

## Air sports

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Main article: Air sports

Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville.

* Aerobatics
* Air racing
* Drone racing
* Hot air ballooning
* Cluster ballooning
* Hopper ballooning

Wingsuit flying

* Gliding
* Hang gliding
* Powered hang glider
* Human-powered aircraft
* Model aircraft
* Parachuting
* BASE jumping
* Skysurfing
* Wingsuit flying
* Bodyflight (indoor skydiving)
* Paragliding
* Powered paragliding (paramotoring)
* Ultralight aviation

## Animal sports

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Main article: Animals in sport

### Bovines

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Recortes

* Bull-leaping
* Course landaise
* Jallikattu
* Recortes
* Bullfighting
* Spanish-style bullfighting
* Bull wrestling
* Bataille de Reines
* Combat de Reines
* Tōgyū
* Idi probak
* Kambala
* Pacu jawi
* Running of the bulls
* Yak polo
* Yak racing
* Yak skiing

### Dog sports

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Main article: List of dog sports

Sports in which dogs participate.

### Equines

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Main article: List of equestrian sports

Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007

Sports using a horse.

* Buzkashi
* Barrel racing
* Campdrafting
* Cirit
* Charreada
* Chilean rodeo
* Chuckwagon racing
* Cross country
* Cutting
* Dressage
* Endurance riding
* English pleasure
* Equitation
* Eventing
* Equestrian vaulting
* Gymkhana
* Harness racing
* Hobby horse polo
* Trick riding
* Horse racing
* Horse polo, or polo
* Horseball
* Jineteada gaucha
* Jousting
* Mounted games
* Mounted archery
* Organized horse fighting
* Pato
* Pleasure driving
* Reining
* Rodeo
* Show hunter (British)
* Show jumping
* Steeplechase
* Sur-papakh
* Team penning
* Tent pegging
* Western pleasure

### Fishing

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Main article: Fishing

* Angling
* Big-game fishing
* Casting
* Noodling
* Spearfishing
* Sport fishing
* Surf fishing
* Rock fishing
* Fly fishing
* Ice fishing
* Bass fishing

### Hunting

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Main article: Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

* Beagling
* Big game hunting
* Boar hunting
* Deer hunting
* Fox hunting
* Wolf hunting

### Rodeo-originated

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Main article: Rodeo

Barrel racing

Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.

* Barrel racing
* Bronc riding
* Saddle Bronc Riding
* Bareback Bronc Riding
* Bull riding
* Miniature Bull Riding
* Charrería
* Jaripeo
* Chilean rodeo
* Goat tying
* Pole bending
* Roping
* Breakaway Roping
* Tie-down Roping
* Team roping
* Steer roping
* Steer riding
* Steer wrestling

### Others

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* Elephants
* Elephant football
* Elephant polo
* Elephant racing
* Other ungulates
* Camel racing
* Robot jockey
* Camel wrestling
* Goat racing
* Pig racing
* Ram fighting
* Birds
* Bird singing contest
* Cockfighting
* Flying duck race
* Ostrich racing
* Pigeon racing
* Pigeon-shooting
* Vinkensport
* Invertebrates
* Cricket-spitting
* Insect fighting
* Cricket fighting
* Snail racing
* Spider fighting
* Worm charming
* Small mammals
* Cat agility
* Ferret-legging
* Hamster racing
* Rabbit show jumping
* Rat agility
* Herpetiles
* Alligator wrestling
* Frog jumping contest
* Rattlesnake round-up
* Toad Day Out
* Turtle racing

## Athletics

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Main articles: Sport of athletics and Track and field

Long jump

Triple jump

High jump

Pole vault

Discus throw

Javelin throw

Shot put

Hammer throw

100 meters

110 meters hurdles

The three activities in Track and field, from top-bottom rows: jumping, throwing and running.

### Jumping

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* Triple jump
* Long jump
* High jump
* Pole vault
* Vertical jump

### Throwing

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* Boomerang
* Club throw
* Discus
* Hammer throw
* Javelin
* Shot put
* Softball throw
* Throws pentathlon

### Running

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Main article: Running

* Endurance
* 5K run
* 10K run
* Cross country running
* Half marathon
* Marathon
* Road running
* Ekiden
* Tower running
* Ultramarathon
* Snowshoe running
* Fell running
* Trail running
* Mountain running
* Racewalking
* Skyrunning
* Sprint
* Hurdles
* Steeplechase

### Combined

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* Decathlon
* Heptathlon
* Icosathlon
* Pentathlon
* Tetradecathlon

## Ball games

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Main article: List of ball games

### Bat-and-ball games (safe haven games)

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Main article: Bat-and-ball games

Games in which the objective of the offensive team is to reach safe havens to score runs, and of the defense to prevent it.

The two major Bat and ball games, from top-bottom: Baseball and Cricket.

Baseball like (roundball)

* Baseball
* Blind baseball[2]
* Beep baseball
* Chapitas
* Corkball – four bases (no base-running)
* Fuzzball (sport)
* Extreme Baseball
* Half-rubber
* Historic
* Knickerbocker Rules
* The Massachusetts Game – four bases
* Town ball – variable
* Vintage base ball
* Indian Ball
* Japanese-style baseball
* Over-the-line – qv
* No use of bat
* Baseball5
* Bolita de cancha
* Kickball
* Matball
* Cuatro esquinas
* Hotbox
* Pelotica de goma
* Punchball
* Stoop ball
* Wireball
* Sandlot ball
* Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)
* Snow baseball
* Softball
* 16-inch softball
* Fast-pitch softball
* Stickball – variable
* Vitilla \- three bases
* Tee-ball
* Wiffleball
* Brännboll – four bases
* British baseball (Pêl-Fas) – four posts
* Elle
* Pesäpallo – four bases
* Rap7 ball[3]
* Rounders – four bases or posts
* GAA rounders
* Thèque

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Cricket like

* Bete-ombro
* Cricket – two creases
* Backyard, Beach and Street cricket
* Blind cricket
* Club cricket
* Deaf cricket
* French cricket
* Ice cricket
* Indoor cricket
* Indoor cricket (UK variant)
* Kilikiti
* Kwik cricket
* Last man stands cricket
* Leg cricket (no use of bat)
* Limited overs cricket
* One Day International
* List A cricket
* Short form cricket
* 100-ball cricket
* T10 cricket
* Twenty20
* Twenty20 International
* One-armed versus one-legged cricket
* Single wicket/Double wicket
* Softball cricket
* Table Cricket
* Tape ball cricket
* Tennis ball cricket
* Test cricket
* First-class cricket
* Timeless Test
* Trobriand cricket
* Windball cricket
* Women cricket
* Crocker
* Plaquita
* Stoolball – two stools
* Vigoro – two wickets
* Wicket

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Longball

* Danish longball
* Lapta – two salos (bases)
* Oină
* Palant
* Schlagball

Other games

* Bat and trap
* Gillidanda
* Old cat – variable
* Pärk

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### Billiards

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#### Cue sports

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Main article: Cue sports

The three main family of Cue sports, from top-bottom: Carom, pool and Snooker.

* Carom billiards
* Straight rail
* Balkline
* One-cushion carom
* Three-cushion billiards
* Five-pins
* Four-ball
* Artistic billiards
* Novuss (and cued forms of carrom)
* Pool
* Eight-ball
* Blackball (a.k.a. British eight-ball pool)
* Nine-ball
* Straight pool (14.1 continuous)
* One-pocket
* Three-ball
* Seven-ball
* Ten-ball
* Rotation
* Baseball pocket billiards
* Cribbage (pool)
* Bank pool
* Artistic pool
* Trick shot competition
* Speed pool
* Bowlliards
* Chicago
* Kelly pool
* Cutthroat
* Killer
* Russian pyramid
* Snooker
* American snooker
* Power Snooker
* Sinuca brasileira
* Six-red snooker
* Snooker plus
* Snooker Shoot Out
* Tenball
* Hybrid carom–pocket games
* English billiards
* Bottle pool
* Cowboy
* Obstacle variations
* Bagatelle
* Bar billiards
* Bumper pool
* Table Sports
* Foosball

#### Ground billiards

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Main article: Ground billiards

* Pall-mall
* Croquet
* Roque
* Gateball
* Trucco
* Woodball

### Boules sports

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Main article: Boules

Lawn bowls

Games which the objective is to throw, roll or slide balls as closely as possible to a jack or target.

* Bocce
* Bocce volo
* Boccia
* Bolas criollas
* Boules
* Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
* Curling
* Crokicurl
* Wheelchair curling
* Ice stock sport
* Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
* Marbles
* Pétanque
* Taistelupetankki
* Raffa
* Shuffleboard

### Bowling

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Main article: Bowling

Bowling

* Candlepin bowling
* Duckpin bowling
* Five-pin bowling
* Nine-pin bowling
* Ten-pin bowling
* Trick bowling
* Turkey bowling
* Basque bowls
* Bolo palma
* Fowling
* Skittles
* Table skittles
* Devil among the tailors

### Dodgeball family

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Main article: Dodgeball

* Dandy shandy
* Gaga
* Maram Pitti
* Prisonball
* Seven stones
* Spud

### Golf

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Main article: Golf

Sports which score is counted in reference to par

Golf player using a putter to score

* Beach golf
* Clock golf
* Codeball
* Dart golf
* Disc golf
* Footgolf
* Fungo golf
* GolfCross
* Hickory golf
* Indoor golf
* Long drive
* Match play
* Miniature golf
* Park golf
* Pitch and putt
* Sholf
* Shotgun start
* Skins game
* Snow golf
* Speed golf
* Stroke play
* Swingolf
* Topgolf
* Urban golf

### Invasion games

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Main article: Goal (sport)

Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.

#### Basketball family

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Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

* Basketball
* 3x3 basketball
* Beach basketball
* Biddy Basketball
* Deaf basketball
* Donkey basketball
* Hotshot
* One-on-one
* Piterbasket
* Pop-A-Shot
* Rezball
* Roller basketball[4]
* Six-on-six basketball
* Slamball
* Streetball
* Super Shot
* Twenty-one
* Unicycle basketball
* Water basketball
* Wheelchair basketball
* Canoe polo
* Cestoball
* Dueball
* Flickerball
* Horseball
* Korfball
* Beach korfball
* Netball
* Fast5 netball
* Indoor netball
* Walking netball
* Pato
* Ringball

#### Football family

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Main article: Football

Association football (soccer)

Association football (beach)

Association football (Futsal)

Gridiron football (American)

Gridiron football (Flag)

Rugby football (League)

Rugby football (Union)

Australian rules football

Gaelic football

International rules football

Several codes of football

Historical

* Ancient games
* Aqsaqtuk
* Chinlone
* Cuju
* Episkyros
* Harpastum
* Kemari
* Ki-o-rahi
* Marn Grook
* Pasuckuakohowog
* Phaininda
* Tepuk
* Woggabaliri
* Yubi lakpi
* Medieval football
* Ba game
* Bottle-kicking
* Caid
* Calcio Fiorentino
* Camping (game)
* Cnapan
* Cornish hurling
* Haxey Hood
* Knattleikr
* La soule
* Lelo burti
* Mob football
* Shrove Tuesday games
* Atherstone Ball Game
* Royal Shrovetide Football
* Scoring the Hales
* Sedgefield Ball Game
* Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
* Uppies and Downies
* English school games
* Eton College
* Field game
* Wall game
* Harrow football
* Winchester College football

Modern codes

* Association football
* Circle rules football
* Jorkyball
* Old rules
* Cambridge rules
* Sheffield Rules
* Paralympic football
* Amputee football
* Blind football
* CP football
* Powerchair Football
* Wheelchair soccer
* Reduced variants
* 3v3 Soccer
* Beach soccer
* Cageball
* Crab soccer
* Fireball
* Five-a-side football
* Futsal
* Ice football
* Indoor soccer
* Masters Football
* Minifootball
* Papi fut
* Roller soccer
* Rush goalie
* Seven-a-side football
* Kings League
* Sevens football
* Socca
* Walking football
* Street football
* Keepie uppie
* Freestyle football
* Hacky sack
* Swamp football
* Three sided football
* Omegaball
* Australian football
* AFLX
* Auskick
* Footy 9s
* Kick-to-kick
* Lightning football
* Metro footy
* Nine-a-side footy
* Rec footy (no tackle allowed)
* Women's Australian rules football
* Gaelic football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Gridiron football
* American football
* Non tackle variants
* Flag football
* Touch football
* Reduced variants
* Eight-man football
* Arena football
* Nine-man football
* Six-man football
* Sprint football
* Street football (American)
* Unicycle football[5]
* Wheelchair football
* UFL rules football (2024)
* Canadian football
* Underwater football
* Rugby football
* Rugby league
* Masters Rugby League
* Mod league
* Non tackle variants
* American flag rugby
* League tag
* OzTag
* Tag rugby
* Touch football
* Reduced variants
* Rugby league nines
* Rugby league sevens
* Wheelchair rugby league
* Rugby union
* Beach rugby
* Mini rugby
* Non tackle variants
* Tag rugby
* Touch rugby
* Reduced variants
* Rugby sevens
* Rugby X
* Rugby tens
* Snow rugby
* Underwater rugby
* Wheelchair rugby
* Hybrid codes
* Austus
* Boston game
* Forceback
* Freeflyball
* Fullball
* International rules football
* Kronum
* Samoa rules
* Speedball
* Swedish football
* Universal football
* Vertiball
* Volata

#### Handball family

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Main article: Handball

A 7-meter throw in Handball.

* Czech handball
* Field handball
* Indoor handball
* Beach handball
* Wheelchair handball
* Rollball
* Visual impaired
* Goalball
* Torball
* Water polo

#### Stick and ball family

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Sports that use some kind of sticks for scoring goals.

##### Hockey

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Main article: Hockey

Field hockey

Indoor hockey

Beach hockey

Roller hockey (inline)

Roller hockey (quad)

Ice hockey

Bandy

Bandy (Rink)

Unicycle hockey

Underwater hockey

Some hockey variants

* Traditional/historic
* Bando
* Beikou
* Chueca
* Khong kangjei
* Palin
* Pelota purépecha
* Field hockey
* Beach hockey
* Hockey5s
* Hockey 9s
* Indoor hockey
* Minkey
* Floor hockey
* Ball hockey
* Floorball
* Foot hockey
* Hoverboard hockey[6]
* On ice
* Ice skates
* Bandy
* Rink bandy
* Rinkball
* Ice hockey
* Blind hockey[7]
* Pond hockey
* Shinny
* Sledge hockey
* Ringette
* Sans skates
* Broomball
* Moscow broomball
* Spongee
* Power hockey
* Ring-goal
* Roller hockey
* Inline hockey
* Blind inline hockey[8]
* Inline sledge hockey
* Quad hockey
* Rossall Hockey
* Street hockey
* Ultiglockey
* Underwater
* Underwater hockey
* Underwater ice hockey
* Unicycle hockey

##### Hurling and shinty

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* Cammag
* Hurling
* Camogie
* Shinty
* Women's shinty
* Composite rules shinty-hurling
* Iomain

##### Lacrosse

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Main article: Lacrosse

Field

Box

Women

Intercrosse

Lacrosse variants

* Indigenous North American stickball
* Field lacrosse
* Box lacrosse
* Women's lacrosse
* Lacrosse sixes
* Intercrosse
* Wheelchair lacrosse[9]
* Polocrosse
* Segway rugpolocrosse

##### Polo

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Main article: Polo

A polo player.

* Auto polo
* Sagol kāngjei
* Arena polo
* Beach polo
* Bicycle polo
* Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Cowboy polo
* Elephant polo
* Hobby horse polo
* Segway polo
* Snow polo
* Unicycle polo
* Yak polo

#### Other goal sports

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Cycle ball

* Anejodi
* Angleball
* Autoball
* Cycleball
* Elephant football
* Foobaskill
* Home Ball
* Motoball
* Nashball
* Pearl ball
* Pushball
* Quidditch
* Tennis polo
* Treibball
* Whirlyball

### Net and wall games

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Main article: Net and wall games

Sports when players/teams score whenever the opponent fails to return validly the possession of ball/bird back.

Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely the body:

An international match of volleyball.

* Badminton
* Ball badminton
* Fistball
* Footbag net
* Football tennis
* Jianzi
* Jokgu
* Jollyball
* Loofball
* Miniten
* Peteca
* Pickleball
* Qianball
* Rocball
* Sepak takraw
* Sipa
* Table tennis
* Hardbat
* Headis
* Para table tennis
* Tambourelli
* Te ano
* Tennikoit
* Tennis
* Beach tennis
* Paddle tennis
* Platform tennis
* Soft tennis
* Touchtennis
* Wheelchair tennis
* Teqball
* Throwball
* Volleyball
* 9-man
* Beach volleyball
* Biribol
* Bossaball
* Crossnet
* Ecuavolley
* Footvolley
* Hooverball
* Newcomb ball
* Sitting volleyball
* Snow volleyball
* Wallyball
* Water volleyball

Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball against walls or any rebounding surface using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:

A game of squash

* 360ball[10]
* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
* Frontenis
* Jai alai
* Butts Up
* Chinese handball
* Fives
* Eton fives
* Rugby fives
* Four square
* Gaelic handball
* Kin-Ball
* One-wall handball
* One wall paddleball
* Patball
* Rackets
* Racquetball
* Roundnet
* Squash
* Squash tennis
* Suicide (game)
* Tchoukball
* Valencian frontó
* Wallball

Games that use both walls and net

* Padbol
* Padel
* Real Tennis
* Table squash
* Wallyball

#### Pilota family

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Valencian pilota.

* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
* Jai alai
* Chaza
* Downball
* Fives
* Eton fives
* Rugby fives
* Frisian handball
* Four square or FS Handball
* Gaelic handball
* Gain-ground
* Balle à la main
* Ballon au poing
* International game
* Jeu de paume
* Longue paume
* Palla
* Pallone
* Tamburello
* Tambourelli
* Patball
* Roundnet
* Valencian pilota
* Llargues

#### Racket (or racquet) sports

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See also: List of racket sports

* Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports)

##### Sports that use a netted racket

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Tennis

* Badminton
* Ball badminton
* Frontenis
* Battledore and shuttlecock
* Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
* Qianball
* Rackets
* Racquetball
* Real tennis
* Road tennis
* Soft tennis
* Speed-ball
* Squash
* Hardball squash
* Squash tennis
* Stické
* Tennis
* Wheelchair tennis
* Touchtennis

##### Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle

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Table tennis

* Basque pelota
* Beach tennis
* Downside ball game
* Four wall paddleball
* Hanetsuki
* Jombola
* Matkot
* Miniten
* One wall paddleball
* Paddle ball
* Paddle tennis
* Padel
* Paleta frontón
* Pan Pong
* Pelota mixteca
* Pickleball
* Platform tennis
* Sphairee
* Stoolball
* Table squash
* Table tennis (Ping Pong)
* Para table tennis

### Other ball sports

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* 500
* Hornussen
* Jeu de mail
* Keep away
* Rondo
* Kolf
* Snookball
* Yukigassen

## Board sports

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Main article: Board sports

Skateboarding Snowboard figure at the 2008 Shakedown Surfing in Hawaii

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

* Hoverboarding
* Kite landboarding
* Land sailing
* Land windsurfing
* Skateboarding
* Casterboarding
* Freeboard (skateboard)
* Freestyle skateboarding
* Longboarding
* Mountainboarding
* Snakeboarding
* Streetboarding
* Streetluge
* Scootering
* Skysurfing
* Skwal
* Snowboarding
* Para-snowboarding
* Sandboarding
* Snowkiting
* Snowskating
* Surfing
* Bodyboarding
* Dog surfing
* Kiteboarding
* Riverboarding
* Skimboarding
* Standup paddleboarding
* Wakesurfing
* Windsurfing
* Wakeboarding
* Kneeboarding
* Paddleboarding

## Climbing

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Main article: Climbing

Canyoning

* Competition climbing
* Competition bouldering
* Competition ice climbing
* Competition lead climbing
* Competition speed climbing
* Ice climbing
* Dry-tooling
* Mixed climbing
* Mountaineering
* Alpine climbing
* Expedition climbing
* Paraclimbing
* Rock climbing
* Aid climbing
* Big wall climbing
* Bouldering
* Deep-water soloing
* Multi-pitch climbing
* Sport climbing
* Traditional climbing
* Speed climbing
* Solo climbing
* Free solo climbing
* Rope solo climbing
* Top rope climbing
* Other
* Canyoning (Canyoneering)
* Coasteering
* Hiking
* Pole climbing
* Rope climbing
* Sawanobori

## Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts

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Main articles: Combat sport and Martial arts

A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.

### Grappling

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Main article: Grappling

Two men compete in freestyle wrestling.

* Aiki-jūjutsu
* Aikido
* Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
* Arm Wrestling
* Jujutsu
* Brazilian jiu-jitsu
* 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu
* Gyokushin-ryū Jujutsu
* Hakkō-ryū
* Judo
* Kosen judo
* Sambo (martial art)
* Sumo
* Wrestling
* Amateur wrestling
* Greco-Roman wrestling
* Freestyle wrestling
* Collegiate wrestling
* Scholastic wrestling
* Beach wrestling
* Belt wrestling
* Catch wrestling
* Folk wrestling
* Alysh
* Scottish backhold
* Barróg
* Bokh
* Boli Khela
* Bultong
* Buno
* Canarian wrestling
* Collar-and-elbow
* Cornish wrestling
* Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling
* Devon wrestling
* Dumog
* Gatta Gusthi
* Glima
* Gouren
* Huka-huka
* Karakucak
* Kene
* Kurash
* Lancashire wrestling
* Leonese wrestling
* Lutte Traditionnelle
* Malakhra
* Malla-yuddha
* Mongolian wrestling
* Mukna
* Naban
* Narodno rvanje
* Pehlwani
* Ringen
* Ristynės
* Schwingen
* Shuai jiao
* Ssireum
* Tegumi
* Varzesh-e Pahlavani
* Yağlı Güreş
* Greek wrestling
* Jacket wrestling
* Mud wrestling
* Professional wrestling
* Submission wrestling

### Striking

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Main article: Strike (attack)

A kick in kickboxing.

* Adimurai
* Bajiquan
* Bokator
* Boxing
* Amateur boxing
* Ancient Greek boxing
* Bare-knuckle boxing
* Chess boxing
* Chivarreto boxing
* Russian boxing
* Capoeira
* Choi Kwang-Do
* Dambe
* Fujian White Crane
* Karate
* Kenpō
* Kickboxing
* Lethwei
* Muay Thai
* Pradal serey
* Savate
* Shaolin kung fu
* Shin-kicking
* Sikaran
* Silat
* Subak
* Taekkyeon
* Taekwondo
* Taidō
* Tang Soo Do
* Vovinam
* Wing Chun

### Mixed or hybrid

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Further information: Hybrid martial arts

Ground fighting in MMA.

* American Kenpo
* ARB
* Baguazhang
* Bando
* Bartitsu
* Bujinkan
* Hapkido
* Chun Kuk Do
* Hwa Rang Do
* Jeet Kune Do
* Kajukenbo
* Kalaripayattu
* Krav Maga
* Kuk Sool Won
* Luta livre
* Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
* Mixed martial arts
* Northern Praying Mantis
* Ninjutsu
* Pankration
* Pencak Silat
* Sanda
* Shidōkan Karate
* Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
* Shooto
* Shoot boxing
* Shootfighting
* Shoot wrestling
* Shorinji Kempo
* Systema
* Tai chi
* Unifight
* Vajra-mushti
* Vale tudo
* Xingyiquan
* Zen Bu Kan Kempo

### Weapons

[edit]

Two kendōka. Paintball

* Boffer fighting
* Buhurt
* Cardboard Tube Fighting
* Eskrima
* Modern Arnis
* German school of fencing
* Guns
* Airsoft
* Laser tag
* Paintball
* Historical European martial arts
* Hojōjutsu
* Iaido
* Iaijutsu
* Jieitaikakutōjutsu
* Jittejutsu
* Jūkendō
* Kapap
* Kendo
* Kenjutsu
* Krabi–krabong
* Kumdo
* Kung fu
* Kyūdō
* Kyūjutsu
* Medieval MMA
* Naginatajutsu
* Okinawan kobudō
* Pillow Fight Championship
* Shurikenjutsu
* Silambam
* Sōjutsu
* Stick-fighting
* Bartitsu
* Bōjutsu
* Canne de combat
* Egyptian stick fencing
* Gatka
* Jōdō
* Jogo do pau
* lathi khela
* Nguni stick-fighting
* Quarterstaff
* Singlestick
* Swords
* Academic fencing
* Classical fencing
* Fencing
* Wheelchair fencing
* Battōjutsu
* Vajra-mushti
* Wing Chun
* Wushu

### Other

[edit]

Main article: Blood sport

## Flying disc sports

[edit]

Main article: Flying disc games

Australia vs Canada ultimate players WUGC 2012 in Japan. Ultimate Canada

* 500
* Crossbee
* Disc dog
* Disc golf
* Disc golf (urban)
* Double disc court
* Freestyle
* Fricket
* Frisbee
* Guts
* Dodge disc
* Flutterguts
* KanJam
* Polish horseshoes
* Ultimate
* Goaltimate
* Hot box
* KanJam
* Schtick

## Gymnastics

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Main article: Gymnastics

Balance beam

Uneven bars

Floor

Vault

Horizontal bar

Parallel bars

Pommel horse

Still rings

Artistic gymnastics apparatuses

Rhythmic gymnastics apparatuses, from left-right: ball, clubs, hoop, ribbon and rope.

* Acrobatic gymnastics
* Aerial hoop
* Aerial silks
* Aerobic gymnastics
* Aesthetic group gymnastics
* Artistic gymnastics
* Only men
* High bar
* Parallel bars
* Pommel horse
* Still rings
* Only women
* Balance beam
* Uneven bars
* Both men and women
* Floor
* Vault
* Baton twirling
* Calisthenics
* Competitive yoga
* Juggling
* Mallakhamba
* Parkour
* Freerunning
* Pole dance
* Rhythmic gymnastics
* Ball
* Clubs
* Hoop
* Ribbon
* Rope
* Rope jumping
* Rope climbing
* Slacklining
* TeamGym
* Trampolining
* Trapeze
* Flying trapeze
* Static trapeze
* Tumbling
* Wheel gymnastics
* Cyr wheel

## Kite sports

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* Hang gliding
* Kite buggy
* Kite fighting
* Kite ice skating
* Kite landboarding
* Kitesurfing
* Parasailing
* Snowkiting
* Sport kite (Stunt kite)

## Mixed discipline

[edit]

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.

* Adventure racing
* Aquathlon
* Biathlon
* Duathlon
* Decathlon
* Heptathlon
* Icosathlon
* Laser-run
* Modern pentathlon
* Pentathlon
* Racketlon
* Tetrathlon
* Triathle
* Triathlon

## Motorsports

[edit]

Main article: Motorsport

Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles

### Air racing

[edit]

Main article: Air racing

### Motorboat racing

[edit]

Main article: Offshore powerboat racing

Formula 1 motorboat

* Drag boat racing
* F1 powerboat racing
* Hydroplane racing
* Jet sprint boat racing
* Offshore powerboat racing
* Personal watercraft

### Terrestrial vehicles

[edit]

#### Automobile

[edit]

Main article: Auto racing

The start of a Formula One race in 2008

* Autoball
* Auto polo
* Autocross (a.k.a. Slalom)
* Autograss
* Banger racing
* Board track racing
* Demolition derby
* Desert racing
* Dirt track racing
* Drag racing
* Drifting
* Endurance racing
* Folkrace
* Formula racing
* Formula Student
* Formula Libre
* Hillclimbing
* Baseball racing
* Kart racing
* Land speed records
* Lawn mower racing
* Legends car racing
* Midget car racing
* Monster truck
* Mud bogging
* Off-road racing
* Pickup truck racing
* Production car racing
* Race of Champions
* Rally raid
* Rallycross
* Rallying
* Regularity rally
* Road racing
* Short track motor racing
* Sports car racing
* Sprint car racing
* Street racing
* Stock car racing
* Time attack
* Tractor pulling
* Tractor race[11]
* Touring car racing
* Truck racing
* Vintage racing
* Wheelstand competition

#### Motorcycle

[edit]

Main article: Motorcycle sport

MotoGP racing

* Auto Race
* Board track racing
* Cross-country rally
* Endurance racing
* Enduro
* Freestyle motocross
* Grand Prix motorcycle racing
* Grasstrack
* Hillclimbing
* Ice speedway
* Indoor enduro
* Motoball
* Motocross
* Motorcycle drag racing
* Motorcycle speedway
* Motorcycle stunt riding
* Off-roading
* Rally raid
* Road racing
* Stunt riding
* Superbike racing
* Supercross
* Supermoto
* Supersport racing
* Sidecar racing
* Track racing
* Trial
* TT racing
* Free-style moto

#### Others

[edit]

ATV racing on a motocross track

* All-terrain vehicle competition
* Electric bike racing[12]
* Electric scooter racing
* Electric skateboard racing[13]
* Electric unicycle race
* Hoverboarding
* Ice racing
* Monowheel run
* Rickshaw run
* Segway polo
* Snowmobiling
* Snowmobile skipping
* Whirlyball

## Orienteering

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* Amateur radio direction finding (Radio Orienteering)
* Geocaching
* Geohashing
* Letterboxing
* Orienteering
* Rogaining
* Waymarking

## 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.

* Freerunning
* Martial Arts Tricking
* Ninja Warrior
* Obstacle racing (OCR)
* Parkour
* Trampolining
* World Chase Tag

## Pedal vehicle

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Human-powered vehicles propelled by pedals

### Cycling

[edit]

Main article: Cycle sport

Sports using bicycles, quadracycles, tricycles or unicycles.

#### Bicycle

[edit]

Main article: Bicycle

A track cycling Race

* Artistic cycling
* BMX
* BMX racing
* Freestyle BMX
* Cycle ball
* Cycle polo
* Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Cycle speedway
* Cyclo-cross
* Dirt jumping
* Downhill mountain biking
* Freestyle fixed gear
* Bike Trials
* Mountain biking
* Recumbent bicycle racing
* Road bicycle racing
* Track cycling
* Underwater cycling

#### Quadracycle

[edit]

* Pedal car racing

#### Tricycle

[edit]

* Handcycle
* Recumbent tricycle racing
* Wheelchair racing

#### Unicycle

[edit]

Main article: Unicycle

Mountain unicycle

* Icetrack cycling
* Mountain unicycling
* Street unicycling
* Unicycling
* Unicycle basketball
* Unicycle football
* Unicycle hockey
* Unicycle polo
* Unicycle trials

### Watercraft

[edit]

* Pedal boat racing

## Racing

[edit]

* Running
* Marathon
* Sprint
* Mascot race
* Skating
* Inline speed skating
* Speed skating
* Ice cross downhill

## Shooting sports

[edit]

Main article: Shooting sports

### Archery

[edit]

Main article: Archery

Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.

* Archery
* Dartchery
* Field archery
* Flight archery
* Gungdo
* Indoor archery
* Kyūdō
* Match crossbow
* Mounted archery
* Popinjay
* Run archery
* Target archery

### Gun sports

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Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.).

#### Individual

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Skeet shooting

* Clay pigeon shooting
* Skeet shooting
* Trap shooting
* Sporting clays
* Slingshotting
* Bullseye shooting
* Rifle
* ISSF rifle events
* Fullbore target rifle
* High power rifle
* Benchrest shooting
* Paralympic rifle events
* Handgun
* ISSF pistol events
* Paralympic pistol events
* Field shooting
* Precision rifle competition
* Precision Rifle Series
* Field target
* Metallic silhouette shooting
* ICFRA Palma and F-Class
* Plinking
* Practical shooting
* International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC)
* International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA)
* Multigun
* Cowboy action shooting
* Olympic dueling

#### Athletic hybrid

[edit]

Laser-run

* Air baseball
* Biathlon
* Bowling
* Field running
* Ice baseball
* Laser-run
* Military patrol
* Modern pentathlon
* Moose biathlon
* Orienteering shooting
* Pistol skiing
* Ski field shooting
* Summer biathlon
* Target sprint
* Triathle
* Underwater target shooting
* Water baseball

#### Skirmish

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* Airsoft
* Laser tag
* Paintball

## Skating sports

[edit]

Inline figure skating

* Ice skating
* Figure skating
* Freeskating
* Ice dancing
* Single skating
* Pair skating
* Synchronized skating
* Four skating
* Ice theatre
* Hockey
* Bandy
* Rink bandy
* Ice hockey
* Ringette
* Rinkball
* Speed skating
* Ice cross downhill
* Ice skating marathon
* Long-track speed skating
* Short-track speed skating
* Tour skating
* Roller sports
* Freestyle scootering
* Roller skating
* Artistic roller skating
* Inline skating
* Aggressive inline skating
* Freestyle slalom skating
* Inline figure skating
* Inline speed skating
* Inline hockey
* Quad
* Jam skating
* Rink hockey
* Roller derby
* Road skating
* Rollball
* Roller basketball
* Roller soccer
* Vert skating
* Roller skiing
* Skateboarding
* Casterboarding
* Freeboard (skateboard)
* Freestyle skateboarding
* Grass surfing
* Longboarding
* Mountainboarding
* Skateboarding trick
* Skatepark
* Slalom skateboarding
* Snakeboarding
* Street skateboarding
* Streetluge
* Vert skateboarding

## Snow sports

[edit]

### Skiing

[edit]

Main article: Skiing

A ski jumper using the V-style Freestyle skiing

* Alpine skiing
* Downhill
* Super-G
* Giant slalom
* Slalom
* Alpine skiing combined
* Freestyle skiing
* Aerials
* Moguls
* Halfpipe
* Slopestyle
* Ski cross
* Ski ballet
* Speed skiing
* Monoski
* Nordic skiing
* Cross-country skiing
* Ski jumping
* Nordic combined
* Telemark skiing
* Para-alpine skiing
* Ice sledge racing
* Ski mountaineering
* Ski touring
* Skijoring
* Teleboard

### Sled sports

[edit]

Main article: Sledding

Bobsled

* Bobsleigh
* Jack jumping
* Luge
* Shovel racing
* Skibobbing
* Skeleton
* Snow tubing
* Toboggan

## Stacking

[edit]

* Card stacking
* Dice stacking
* Jenga
* Sport stacking

## Strength sports

[edit]

* Strongman
* Arm Wrestling
* Thumb war
* Toe Wrestling
* Powerlifting
* Weightlifting
* Wrestling

## Tag games

[edit]

Main article: Tag (game) § Variants

Kabaddi

* Atya patya
* Bo-taoshi
* British Bulldog (American Eagle; Australian Dingo)
* Capture the flag
* Darebase
* Hana Ichi Monme
* Hide-and-seek
* Jugger
* Kabaddi
* Kho kho
* Kick the can
* Langdi
* Marco Polo
* Oztag
* Red Rover
* Seven stones
* Surr
* Tag
* World Chase Tag

## Walking

[edit]

* Hiking
* Backpacking (hiking)
* Off-trail hiking
* Naked hiking
* Racewalking
* Walking

## Water sports

[edit]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of water sports.

These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).

### Paddling sports

[edit]

Further information: Outline of kayaking and canoeing

Rafting

#### Canoeing

[edit]

* Canoeing
* Outrigger canoeing

#### Kayaking

[edit]

Main article: Kayaking

* Creeking
* Flyak
* Freeboating
* Sea kayaking
* Squirt boating
* Surf kayaking
* Whitewater kayaking

#### Rafting

[edit]

* Rafting
* White water rafting

#### Rowing

[edit]

* Rowing (sport)
* Gig racing
* Coastal and ocean rowing
* Surfboat
* Single scull

#### Other paddling sports

[edit]

* Dragon boat racing
* Standup paddleboarding

### Sailing

[edit]

Main article: Sailing

Windsurfing

* Dinghy sailing
* Ice yachting
* Kiteboarding
* Land sailing
* Land windsurfing
* Sailing
* Windsurfing
* Wing foiling
* Yacht racing

### Aquatic ball sports

[edit]

Waterpolo

#### Surface

[edit]

* Water polo
* Canoe polo
* Stone skipping
* Waboba

#### Underwater

[edit]

* Underwater football
* Underwater rugby
* Underwater hockey
* Underwater ice hockey

### Competitive swimming

[edit]

Main article: Competitive swimming

* Swimming stroke
* Backstroke
* Breaststroke
* Butterfly stroke
* Freestyle swimming
* Sidestroke
* Individual medley
* Synchronized swimming
* Medley relay

#### Kindred activities

[edit]

* Bifins (finswimming)
* Surface finswimming

### Subsurface and recreational

[edit]

Main articles: Underwater sports and Recreational diving

Snorkeling

* Apnoea finswimming
* Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
* Freediving
* Georgian swimming
* Immersion finswimming
* Scuba diving
* Snorkeling
* Spearfishing
* Sport diving (sport)
* Suijutsu
* Underwater orienteering
* Underwater photography (sport)
* Underwater target shooting

### Diving

[edit]

* Cliff jumping
* Diving

## Weightlifting

[edit]

Main articles: Olympic weightlifting and Powerlifting

Weightlifting

* Basque traditional weightlifting
* CrossFit
* Highland games
* Kettlebell lifting
* Olympic weightlifting
* Powerlifting
* Bodybuilding
* Strength athletics (strongman)
* Steinstossen

## Mind sports

[edit]

Main article: 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.

### Card games

[edit]

Main articles: Card game and List of card games

Bridge

* Contract bridge
* Hanafuda
* Pacience
* Klondike
* Freecell
* Pyramid
* Spider
* Tri peaks
* Poker
* Classic poker
* Omaha
* Online poker
* Texas hold'em
* Skat
* Truco
* Whist

### Combination puzzle

[edit]

Main article: Combination puzzle

Dogic

* Speedcubing
* Tetrahedron
* Pyraminx
* Pyramorphix
* Cube
* 2x2x2
* 3x3x3
* 3x3x3 One-Handed
* 4x4x4
* 5×5×5
* 6×6×6
* 7×7×7
* Skewb
* Square-1
* Skewb Diamond (octahedron)
* Dodecahedron
* Megaminx
* Pyraminx Crystal
* Skewb Ultimate
* Dogic (icosahedron)
* Other
* Rubik's Clock

### Competitive model sports

[edit]

RC aircraft

* Mini 4WD
* Model aircraft racing
* Model yacht racing
* Neppis

#### Remote control

[edit]

* Drone racing
* Model aerobatics
* RC racing
* Robot competition
* Robot combat
* Robot boxing[14]
* Robot-sumo
* Robot football
* Soccer robot
* Slot car racing

### Esports

[edit]

Main articles: Esports and List of esports games

0 A.D. a real-time strategy game

* Battle royale game
* Digital collectible card game
* Fighting game
* First-person shooter
* Multiplayer online battle arena
* Real-time strategy
* Real-time tactics
* Rhythm game
* Speedrunning
* Sports video game
* Third-person shooter
* Tile-matching video game
* Vehicle simulation game
* Combat flight simulation game
* Sim racing

### Strategy board games

[edit]

Main articles: Board Games and List of board games

Chaturanga, parent of many strategy board games A game of Monopoly

* Chaturanga
* Arimaa
* Chadarangam
* Chaturaji
* Janggi
* Makruk
* Mak-yek
* Shatar
* Shatra (game)
* Shatranj
* Chess
* Atomic chess
* Bughouse chess
* Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess)
* Fast chess
* Losing chess
* More than two players
* Four-player chess
* Three-player chess
* Non square board
* Circular chess
* Cylinder chess
* Hexagonal chess
* Spherical chess
* Three-dimensional chess
* Cheskers
* Courier chess
* Grant Acedrex
* Indian chess
* Senterej
* Short assize
* Tamerlane chess
* Shōgi
* Chu shogi
* Philosophy shogi checkers
* Wa shogi
* Sittuyin
* Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
* Banqi
* Game of the Three Kingdoms
* Checkers
* International
* Canadian
* English
* Turkish
* Chinese checkers
* Diplomacy
* Dominoes
* Go
* Go-Moku
* Ludo
* Mahjong
* Mancala
* Monopoly
* Reversi
* Risk
* Scrabble
* Sholo Guti
* Sogo (Score four)
* Stratego
* Sudoku
* Tables games
* Backgammon
* Jacquet
* Yut

### Other

[edit]

* Competitive programming
* Debating
* Fantasy sport
* Quizzing
* Capture the flag (cybersecurity)
* Puzzles

## Both physical and mind

[edit]

* Chess boxing
* Dance pad
* Electro-mechanical game
* Fitness game
* Phygital sport
* Virtual reality game

## Different classification

[edit]

Potentially other sports are listed here.

### Air sports

[edit]

* Banzai skydiving
* Bungee jumping
* Hot air ballooning
* Indoor skydiving

### Beach sports

[edit]

Beach tennis

Versions of sports played on sand

* Beach basketball
* Beach golf
* Beach handball
* Beach hockey
* Beach rugby
* Beach soccer
* Beach tennis
* Beach volleyball
* Beach wrestling

### Compromise rules

[edit]

* Composite rules shinty–hurling
* Iomain
* International game
* International rules football
* One-wall handball

### Electronic sports

[edit]

Sports played using electronic devices.

* Capture the flag (cybersecurity)
* Combat robot
* Competitive programming
* Contesting
* Fitness game
* Radio-control vehicles
* Video gaming
* Wire loop game

### Endurance sports

[edit]

* Chariot racing
* Cross-country skiing
* Cycling
* Iditarod
* Long-distance running
* Rowing
* Swimming
* Wheelchair racing
* Woodchopping

### Ice sports

[edit]

Speed skating

* Figure skating
* Four skating
* Ice dancing
* Ice theatre
* Pair skating
* Single skating
* Synchronized skating
* Hockey
* Bandy
* Rink bandy
* Broomball
* Moscow broomball
* Ice hockey
* Sledge hockey
* Spongee
* Ringette
* Ice cricket
* Ice fishing
* Ice football
* Icetrack cycling
* Ice yachting
* Sled
* Bobsleigh
* Luge
* Skeleton
* Speed skating
* Barrel jumping
* Ice cross downhill
* Long-track speed skating
* Short-track speed skating
* Target
* Crokicurl
* Curling
* Ice stock sport

### Marker sports

[edit]

* Airsoft
* Archery
* Paintball
* Darts

### Snow sports

[edit]

A snowboarder and a skier

* Boardercross
* Freestyle snowboarding
* Snowboarding
* Ski flying
* Skibob
* Snowshoe running
* Snow volleyball
* Skiboarding

### Street sports

[edit]

* Free running and jumping
* Freestyle footbag
* Freestyle football
* Powerbocking
* Parkour
* Scootering
* Street workout

### Strength sports

[edit]

Arm wrestling

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

* Arm wrestling
* CrossFit
* High striker
* Highland games
* Caber toss
* Sheaf toss
* Stone put
* Weight throw
* Olympic weightlifting
* Powerlifting
* Rock climbing
* Strongman
* Thumb wrestling
* Toe wrestling
* Tug of war
* Woodchopping
* Wood splitting
* Zourkhaneh
* Calisthenics

### Tabletop games

[edit]

Main article: Tabletop game

Air hockey

* Backgammon
* Beer pong
* Carrom
* Carrom Nok Hockey
* Chaturanga and descendants
* Connect Four
* Crokinole
* Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
* Dominoes
* Mahjong
* Paper football
* Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
* Scrabble
* Tabletop sports
* Air hockey
* Cue sports
* Headis
* Pinball
* Table Cricket
* Table hockey
* Table Shuffleboard/Sling Puck
* Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
* Tabletop football
* Button football
* Sports table football
* Subbuteo
* Table football
* Teqball
* Yahtzee

### Target sports

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Axe throwing at the Ming Culture Village, a theme park near the Yangshan Quarry, China

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

* Angleball
* Archery
* Axe throwing
* Boules
* Bowling
* Calva
* Cornhole
* Croquet
* Cue sports
* Curling
* Darts
* Golf
* Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)
* Jukskei
* KanJam
* Knife throwing
* Kubb
* Lawn darts
* Matball
* Mölkky
* Pall mall
* Peashooter (toy)
* Pitch and putt
* Ring-goal
* Ring toss
* Shooting
* Shuffleboard
* Skittles
* Skee ball
* Snowball fight
* Tejo
* Trugo
* Varpa
* Water balloon

### Team sports

[edit]

Main article: Team sport

Hurling

Sports that involve teams.

* Angleball
* Basketball family
* Basque pelota
* Bat and ball games
* Bowling
* Bunnock
* Camogie
* Dodgeball
* Football family
* Gateball
* Handball
* Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Hockey family
* Horseshoe
* Hurling
* Kickball
* Kin-Ball
* Lacrosse
* Loofball
* Mesoamerican ballgame
* Motoball
* Newcomb ball
* Paintball
* Polo
* Quidditch
* Ringette
* Roller derby
* Rowing
* Sepak takraw
* Tchoukball
* Ultimate
* Volleyball
* Whirlyball
* Woodsman
* Yukigassen

### Wheelchair sports

[edit]

Para-versions of sports played using wheelchairs

* Wheelchair basketball
* Wheelchair fencing
* Wheelchair handball
* Wheelchair pickleball
* Wheelchair rugby
* Wheelchair rugby league
* Wheelchair tennis

### Windsports

[edit]

Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):

* Kite flying
* Parachuting
* Hot air balloon racing
* Indoor skydiving

### Fictional sports

[edit]

Main article: List of fictional games § Sports

Fictional sports that are played in real life:

* 43-Man Squamish
* Calvinball
* Quidditch (Harry Potter)
* Swiss Guyball
* BASEketball
* Brockian Ultra-Cricket
* Hunger Games
* Whack-bat
* Blitzball
* Fictional Martial Arts

## Miscellaneous sports

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Jack and Jill competition, Lumberjack World Championships, Hayward, Wisconsin, 2007. Logrolling

* Air guitar
* Arctic sports
* Chess boxing
* Chicken fight
* Competitive eating
* Competitive math
* Conker fighting
* Cook-off
* Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
* Drum and bugle corps
* Dwyle Flonking (sport)
* Earthball
* Egg and spoon race
* Extreme ironing
* Extreme Pogo
* Ferret legging
* Fierljeppen
* Fingerboarding
* Footbag (hacky sack)
* Flair bartending
* Guyball
* Gurning
* Haggis hurling
* Hopscotch
* Idiotarod
* Jegichagi
* Jeopardy!
* Jump rope
* Double Dutch
* Lawn mower racing
* Lumberjack sports
* Aizkolaritza
* Axe throwing
* Logrolling
* Wood chopping
* Wood splitting
* Marching
* Marching band
* Milk chugging
* Object spinning
* Padiddling
* Plate spinning
* Top
* Patball
* Pea shooting
* Quiz Bowl
* Redneck Games
* Ring-goal
* Ringette
* Sack race
* Soap shoes
* Stihl Timbersports Series
* Tennikoit
* Tetherball
* Three-legged race
* Ultimate Tazer Ball
* Wallball
* Wheel of Fortune
* Wife-carrying
* Woodsman
* Yoyoing

## See also

[edit]

* Hybrid sport
* Individual sport
* Lists of sports video games
* List of game genres
* Team sport

## References

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