List of sports

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]

## Acrobatic arts

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Main article: List of acrobatic activities

* Breakdancing
* Color guard (flag spinning)
* Dancing
* Cheerleading
* Dancesport
* Dragon dance and Lion dance
* Figure skating
* Freerunning
* High kick
* Paragliding
* Parkour
* Pole sports
* Stunt
* Trampolining

## Air sports

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Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville.

Main article: Air sports

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

Wingsuit flying

* Gliding
* Hang gliding
* Powered hang glider
* Human powered aircraft
* Model aircraft
* Parachuting (Bodyflight)
* Banzai skydiving
* BASE jumping
* Skysurfing
* Wingsuit flying
* Indoor skydiving
*   * Paragliding
* Paramotoring
* Ultralight aviation

## Aquatic and paddle sports

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

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

Further information: Outline of kayaking and canoeing

### Canoeing

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* Canoeing
* Outrigger canoeing

### Kayaking

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Main article: Kayaking

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

### Rafting

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Rafting

* Rafting
* White water rafting

### Rowing

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

### Other paddling sports

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* Dragon boat racing
* Stand up paddle boarding

Greece – Hungary water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples, Italy)

### Aquatic ball sports

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#### Surface

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* Water polo
* Canoe polo
* Stone skipping
* Waboba

#### Underwater

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

### Competitive swimming

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Main article: Competitive swimming

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

#### Kindred activities

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* Bifins (finswimming)
* Surface finswimming

### Subsurface and recreational

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Main articles: Underwater sports and Recreational diving

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

### Diving

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* Cliff diving
* Diving

## Archery

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Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.

Main article: Archery

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

## Ball games

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Main article: List of ball games

### Bat-and-ball games

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Main article: Bat-and-ball games

Awaiting a pitch: batter, catcher, and umpire in baseball

* Baseball
* Baseball5
* Corkball – four bases (no base-running)
* Kickball
* Matball
* Over-the-line – qv
* Punchball
* Softball
* 16-inch softball
* Fast-pitch softball
* Stickball – variable
* Vitilla
* Tee-ball
* Wiffleball
* Wireball
* Bat and trap
* Bete-ombro
* Brännboll – four bases
* British baseball
* Cricket – two creases
* 100-ball cricket
* Backyard, Beach and Street cricket
* Blind cricket
* Club cricket
* Deaf cricket
* First-class cricket
* French cricket
* Ice cricket
* Indoor cricket
* Indoor cricket (UK variant)
* Kilikiti
* Kwik cricket
* Last man stands cricket
* Limited overs cricket
* List A cricket
* One-armed versus one-legged cricket
* One Day International
* Short form cricket
* Single wicket/Double wicket
* T10 cricket
* Tape ball cricket
* Tennis ball cricket
* Test cricket
* Trobriand cricket
* Twenty20
* Twenty20 International
* Windball cricket
* Danish longball
* Elle
* Lapta – two salos (bases)
* The Massachusetts Game – four bases
* Oină
* Old cat – variable
* Palant
* Pesäpallo – four bases
* Plaquita
* Rounders – four bases or posts
* Schlagball
* Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)
* Stoolball – two stools
* Stoop ball
* Town ball – variable
* Vigoro – two wickets

### 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
* Deaf basketball
* Donkey basketball
* Rezball
* Streetball
* Unicycle basketball
* Water basketball
* Wheelchair basketball
* Cestoball
* Flickerball
* Korfball
* Netball
* Fastnet
* Indoor netball
* Ringball
* Slamball

#### Football family

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Main article: Football

Tyrone try for a goal against Westmeath in a Gaelic football match

* Ancient games
* Chinlone
* Cuju
* Episkyros
* Harpastum
* Kemari
* Ki-o-rahi
* Marn Grook
* Sepak Takraw
* Woggabaliri
* Yubi lakpi
* Medieval football
* Ba game
* Caid
* Calcio Fiorentino
* Camping (game)
* Cnapan
* Cornish hurling
* Haxey Hood
* Knattleikr
* La soule
* Mob football
* Royal Shrovetide Football
* Uppies and Downies
* Association football
* Jorkyball
* Paralympic football
* CP football
* Blind football
* Powerchair Football
* Reduced variants
* Beach soccer
* Crab soccer
* Fireball
* Five-a-side football
* Futsal
* Ice football
* Indoor soccer
* Masters Football
* Papi fut
* Rush goalie
* Seven-a-side football
* Kings League
* Walking football
* Street football
* Freestyle football
* Keepie uppie
* Swamp football
* Three sided football
* Australian football
* AFLX
* Metro footy
* Nine-a-side footy
* Rec footy
* English school games
* Eton College
* Field game
* Wall game
* Harrow football
* Gaelic football
* Ladies' Gaelic football
* Gridiron football
* American football
* Eight-man football
* Flag football
* Indoor football
* Arena football
* Nine-man football
* Six-man football
* Sprint football
* Street football (American)
* Touch football
* Unicycle football
* XFL rules football (2001, 2020)
* Canadian football
* Underwater football
* Rugby football
* Rugby league
* Masters Rugby League
* Mod league
* OzTag
* Rugby league nines
* Rugby league sevens
* Tag rugby
* Touch football
* Wheelchair rugby league
* Rugby union
* American flag rugby
* Beach rugby
* Mini rugby
* Rugby sevens
* Rugby tens
* Rugby X
* Snow rugby
* Tag rugby
* Touch rugby
* Wheelchair rugby
* Underwater rugby
* Hybrid codes
* Austus
* International rules football
* Samoa rules
* Speedball
* Universal football
* Volata

#### Handball family

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A 7-meter throw in Handball.

Main article: Handball

* Balle à la main
* Ballon au poing
* Downball
* Four Square or FS Handball
* Beach handball
* Czech handball
* Field handball
* Goalball
* Spikeball
* Tchoukball
* Torball
* Water polo
* Wheelchair handball
* Rollball

#### Stick and ball family

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* Hornussen
* hurling/camogie

##### Hockey

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Ice hockey players Roman Hamrlik and Joffrey Lupul dueling for position

* Hockey
* Ball hockey
* Bando
* Bandy
* Rink bandy
* Broomball
* Field hockey
* Indoor field hockey
* Floorball
* Floor hockey
* Ice hockey
* Pond hockey
* Power hockey
* Sledge hockey
* Underwater ice hockey
* Ringette
* Gym ringette
* Rinkball
* Roller hockey
* Roller hockey (quad)
* Inline hockey
* Inline sledge hockey
* Inline skater hockey
* Moscow broomball
* Rossall Hockey
* Spongee
* Street hockey
* Underwater hockey
* Underwater ice hockey
* Unicycle hockey

##### Hurling and shinty

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Cillian Buckley in action for Kilkenny against Galway in a hurling league game

* Cammag
* Hurling
* Camogie
* Shinty
* Composite rules shinty-hurling

##### Lacrosse

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* Lacrosse
* Box lacrosse
* Field lacrosse
* Intercrosse
* Polocrosse
* Women's lacrosse

##### Polo

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* PoloA polo player.
* Bicycle polo
* Canoe polo
* Cowboy polo
* Elephant polo
* Hobby horse polo
* Segway polo
* Yak polo

### Net and wall games

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Main article: Net and wall games

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:

* Badminton
* Ball badminton
* Biribol
* Bossaball
* Crossnet
* Fistball
* Footbag net
* Football tennis
* Footvolley
* Jianzi
* Jokgu
* Miniten
* Padel
* Peteca
* Pickleball
* Real Tennis
* Rocball
* Sepak takraw
* Sipa
* Table squash
* Table tennis
* Tamburello
* Te ano
* Tennis
* Beach tennis
* Paddle tennis
* Platform tennis
* Teqball
* Throwball
* Volleyball
* Beach volleyball
* Sitting volleyball
* Water volleyball
* Wallyball

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:

* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
* Butts Up
* Chinese handball
* Fives
* Gaelic handball
* International fronton
* Jai alai
* Jorkyball
* Rackets
* Racquetball
* Squash
* Squash tennis
* Stoop ball
* Suicide (game)
* Valencian frontó
* Wallball
* Wallyball

#### Pilota family

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Valencian pilota.

* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
* Jai alai
* Fives
* Eton fives
* Rugby fives
* Frisian handball
* Four square
* Gaelic handball
* Jeu de paume
* Longue paume
* Palla
* Pallone
* Patball
* Roundnet
* Valencian pilota
* Llargues

### Racket (or racquet) sports

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#### Sports that use a netted racket

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* Badminton
* Ball badminton
* Frontenis
* Battledore and shuttlecock
* Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
* Qianball
* Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports)
* Rackets
* Racquetball
* Real tennis
* Road tennis
* Soft tennis
* Speed-ball
* Squash
* Hardball squash
* Squash tennis
* Stické
* Tennis
* Tennis polo
* Touchtennis

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

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* Basque pelota
* Beach tennis
* The Downside Ball Game
* Four wall paddleball
* Matkot
* Miniten
* One wall paddleball
* Paddle ball
* Paddle tennis
* Padel
* Paleta Frontón
* Pan Pong
* Pelota mixteca
* Pickleball
* Pitton
* Platform tennis
* Sphairee
* Stoolball
* Table squash
* Table tennis (Ping Pong)

## Board sports

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Skateboard vert jump at the Sprite urban games 2006 in London. Snowboard figure at the 2008 Shakedown Surfing in Hawaii

Main article: Board sports

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

* Skateboarding
* Casterboarding
* Freeboard (skateboard)
* Longboarding
* Streetboarding
* Scootering
* Skysurfing
* Streetluge
* Snowboarding
* Mountainboarding
* Sandboarding
* Snowkiting
* Surfing
* Bodyboarding
* Dog surfing
* Riverboarding
* Skimboarding
* Wakesurfing
* Windsurfing
* Wakeboarding
* Kneeboarding
* Paddleboarding
* Standup paddleboarding

## Climbing

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Canyoning

Main article: Climbing

* Competition climbing
* Competition bouldering
* Competition ice climbing
* Competition lead climbing
* Competition speed climbing
* Ice climbing
* Dry-tooling
* Mixed climbing
* Mountaineering
* Alpine climbing
* Expedition climbing
* 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

## Cycling

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A track cycling Race

Main article: Cycle sport

Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

### Bicycle

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Main article: Bicycle

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

### Skibob

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* Skibobbing

### Unicycle

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Main article: Unicycle

* Mountain unicycling
* Street unicycling
* Unicycling
* Unicycle basketball
* Unicycle hockey
* Unicycle trials

## 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
* Jujutsu
* Judo
* Brazilian jiu-jitsu
* Sambo (martial art)
* Sumo
* Wrestling
* Amateur wrestling
* Greco-Roman wrestling
* Freestyle wrestling
* Folk wrestling
* Boli Khela
* Catch wrestling
* Collar-and-elbow
* Collegiate wrestling
* Cornish wrestling
* Devon wrestling
* Dumog
* Glima
* Gouren
* Kurash
* Lancashire wrestling
* Malla-yuddha
* Mongolian wrestling
* Pehlwani
* Schwingen
* Shuai jiao
* Ssireum
* Varzesh-e Pahlavani
* Yağlı Güreş
* Greek wrestling
* Mud wrestling
* Oil wrestling
* Professional wrestling

### Striking

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Main article: Strike (attack)

A kick in kickboxing.

* Bajiquan
* Bare knuckle boxing
* Bokator
* Boxing
* Capoeira
* Chess boxing
* Choi Kwang-Do
* 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
* Baguazhang
* Bando
* Bartitsu
* Bujinkan
* Hapkido
* Chun Kuk Do
* Hwa Rang Do
* Jeet Kune Do
* Kajukenbo
* Kalaripayattu
* Krav Maga
* Kuk Sool Won
* 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
* Shorinji Kempo
* Systema
* Tai chi
* Unifight
* Vajra-mushti
* Vale tudo
* Xingyiquan
* Zen Bu Kan Kempo

### Weapons and kicking

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

* Battōjutsu
* Bojutsu
* Boffer fighting
* Buhurt
* Canne de combat
* Cardboard Tube Fighting
* Eskrima
* Egyptian stick fencing
* Fencing
* Gatka
* Historical European martial arts
* Hojōjutsu
* Iaidō
* Iaijutsu
* Jōdō
* Jogo do pau
* Jūkendō
* Jittejutsu
* Kendo
* Kenjutsu
* Krabi–krabong
* Kumdo
* Kung fu
* Kyūdō
* Kyūjutsu
* Medieval MMA
* Modern Arnis
* Naginatajutsu
* Nguni stick-fighting
* Okinawan kobudō
* Pillow Fight Championship
* Shurikenjutsu
* Silambam
* Sōjutsu
* Sword fighting
* Wing Chun
* Wushu
* lathi khela

### Other

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Main article: Blood sport

## Flying disc sports

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

Main article: Flying disc games

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

## Gymnastics

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Trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett at 2008 Canadian National Championships

Main article: Gymnastics

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

## Ice sports

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

## Kite sports

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* Hang gliding
* Kite buggy
* Kite fighting
* Kite landboarding
* Kitesurfing
* Parasailing
* Snow kiting
* Sport kite (Stunt kite)

## Marker sports

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* Airsoft
* Archery
* Paintball
* Darts

## Mixed discipline

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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
* Modern pentathlon
* Pentathlon
* Tetrathlon
* Triathlon

## Motorsports

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Main article: Motorsport

Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles

* Air racing

### Auto racing

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The start of a Formula One race in 2008

Main article: Auto racing

* 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 Libre
* Formula Student
* Hillclimbing
* Baseball racing
* Ice racing
* Kart racing
* Land speed records
* 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
* Snowmobile racing
* Sports car racing
* Sprint car racing
* Street racing
* Stock car racing
* Time attack
* Tractor pulling
* Touring car racing
* Truck racing
* Vintage racing
* Wheelstand competition

### Motorboat racing

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Main article: Offshore powerboat racing

* Drag boat racing
* F1 powerboat racing
* Hydroplane racing
* Jet sprint boat racing
* Offshore powerboat racing
* Personal water craft

### Motorcycle racing

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MotoGP racing

Main article: Motorcycle racing

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

### ATV racing

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ATV racing on a motocross track

* All-terrain vehicle competition

## Musical

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* Battle of the Bands
* Battle rap
* Beatboxing
* Music competition

## Orienteering

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

## Parkour/Freerunning

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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

## Running

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200 meters sprint

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
* Skyrunning
* Tower Running
* Sprint
* Hurdles

## Sailing

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Windsurfing

Main article: Sailing

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

## Snow sports

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* Broomball (outdoors, snow)
* Snow baseball (Indian variant of Baseball played during winters)

### Skiing

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Main article: Skiing

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

### Sled sports

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United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form.

Main article: Sledding

* Bobsleigh
* Luge
* Shovel racing
* Skibobbing
* Skeleton
* Toboggan

## Shooting sports

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Main article: Shooting sports

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

### Individual

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* 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
* Match crossbow
* shoot the chicken
* paintball

### Athletic hybrid

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

### Skirmish

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* Airsoft
* Laser tag
* Paintball

## Stacking

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* Card stacking
* Cup stacking
* Dice stacking
* Sport stacking

## Street sports

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

## Strength sports

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* Strongman
* Arm Wrestling
* Toe Wrestling
* Powerlifting
* Wrestling

## Tag games

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Main article: Tag (game) § Variants

* 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
* Tag
* World Chase Tag
* Seven stones

## Walking

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

## Weightlifting

[edit]

North Korean weightlifter Pak Hyon-Suk performing the snatch, one of the two lifts in the sport of Olympic weightlifting.

Main articles: Olympic weightlifting and Powerlifting

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

## Overlapping sports

[edit]

Sports falling into two or more categories.

* Chess boxing
* Motoball
* Whirlyball

## Sports involving animals

[edit]

Main article: Animals in sport

### Dog sports

[edit]

Sports in which dogs participate.

Main article: List of dog sports

### Equestrian sports

[edit]

Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007

Main article: List of equestrian sports

Sports using a horse.

* Buzkashi
* Barrel racing
* Campdrafting
* Cirit
* Charreada
* Chilean rodeo
* Chuckwagon racing
* Cross country
* Cutting
* Dressage
* Endurance riding
* English pleasure
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* 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
* Pato
* Pleasure driving
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* Rodeo
* Show hunter (British)
* Show jumping
* Steeplechase
* Sur-papakh
* Team penning
* Tent pegging
* Western pleasure

### Fishing

[edit]

Main article: Fishing

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

### Hunting

[edit]

Main article: Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

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

### Rodeo-originated

[edit]

Main article: Rodeo

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

* Bullriding
* Miniature Bull Riding
* Barrel Racing
* Bronc Riding
* Saddle Bronc Riding
* Bareback Bronc Riding
* Pole bending
* Roping
* Breakaway Roping
* Tie-down Roping
* Team Roping
* Steer Roping
* Steer riding
* Steer Wrestling
* Goat Tying

## 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

* Contract bridge
* Hanafuda
* Poker
* Classic poker
* Omaha
* Online poker
* Texas hold'em
* Skat
* Truco
* Whist

### Esports

[edit]

Main articles: Esports and List of esports games

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

### Speedcubing

[edit]

* Speedcubing
* 2x2x2
* 3x3x3
* 3x3x3 One-Handed
* 4x4x4
* 5×5×5
* 6×6×6
* 7×7×7
* Megaminx
* Pyraminx
* Rubik's Clock
* Skewb
* Square-1

### Strategy board games

[edit]

A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China

Main articles: Board Games and List of board games

* Arimaa
* Backgammon
* Checkers
* Chess
* Atomic chess
* Bughouse chess
* Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess)
* Losing chess
* Chinese checkers
* Diplomacy
* Dominoes
* Draughts
* Go
* Go-Moku
* Jacquet
* Janggi
* Ludo
* Mahjong
* Mancala
* Reversi
* Risk
* Scrabble
* Shōgi
* Sholo Guti
* Sogo (Score four)
* Stratego
* Sudoku
* Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
* Yut

### Other

[edit]

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

## Competitive model sports

[edit]

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

### Remote control

[edit]

* Drone racing
* Model aerobatics
* RC racing
* Robot combat
* Robot football
* Slot car racing

## Different classification

[edit]

Potentially other sports are listed here.

### Air sports

[edit]

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

### Athletics (track and field)

[edit]

Pole vault

* Athletics
* Track and field
* Steeplechase
* Cross country
* Jumping
* Triple jump
* Long jump
* High jump
* Pole vault
* Throwing
* Boomerang
* Discus
* Hammer throw
* Javelin
* Shot put
* Racewalking

### 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
* Wood chopping

### Skating sports

[edit]

* Bandy
* Rink bandy
* Figure skating
* Single skating
* Pair skating
* Ice dancing
* Synchronized skating
* Four skating
* Ice theatre
* Ice cross downhill
* Ice dancing
* Ice hockey
* Ice skating
* Inline skating
* Aggressive inline skating
* Freestyle slalom skating
* Inline speed skating
* Roller in-line hockey
* Inline skater hockey
* Roller skating
* Artistic roller skating
* Roller derby
* Rink hockey
* Ringette
* Rinkball
* Speed skating
* Ice skating marathon
* Long-track speed skating
* Short track speed skating
* Tour skating

### Snowsports

[edit]

A snowboarder and a skier A ski jumper using the V-style

* Boardercross
* Freestyle snowboarding

Freestyle skiing

* Snowboarding
* Ski flying
* Skibob
* Snowshoe running
* Skiboarding

See #Skiing

### Strength sports

[edit]

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

* Arm wrestling

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-o-war
* Wood chopping
* Wood splitting
* Zourkhaneh
* Calisthenics

### Table sports

[edit]

* Air hockey
* Backgammon
* Beer Pong
* Carrom
* Carrom Nok Hockey
* Chess
* Connect Four
* Crokinole
* Cue sports (a.k.a Billiards)
* Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
* Dominoes
* Headis
* Janggi
* Mahjong
* Paper Football
* Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
* Scrabble
* Shogi
* Subbuteo
* Table football
* Table hockey
* Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
* Table Shuffleboard/Sling Puck
* Teqball
* Xiangqi

### Target sports

[edit]

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

* Archery
* Axe throwing
* Bocce
* Bocce volo
* Boccia
* Bolas criollas
* Boules
* Bowling
* Candlepin bowling
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* Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
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* Ring-goal
* Ring toss
* Shooting
* Shuffleboard
* Skittles
* Skee ball
* Snowball fight
* Tejo
* Trugo
* Varpa
* Woodball
* Water balloon

#### Cue sports

[edit]

Pool balls Snooker.

Main article: Cue sports

* 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
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* Killer
* Russian pyramid
* Snooker
* Sinuca brasileira
* Six-red snooker
* Snooker plus
* Hybrid carom–pocket games
* English billiards
* Bottle pool
* Cowboy
* Obstacle variations
* Bagatelle
* Bar billiards
* Bumper pool
* Table Sports
* Foosball

#### Golf

[edit]

Main article: Golf

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

### Team sports

[edit]

Sports that involve teams.

Match of lacrosse Jack and Jill competition, Lumberjack World Championships, Hayward, Wisconsin, 2007.

* Basketball family
* Bat and ball games
* Bowling
* Basque pelota
* Bunnock
* Camogie
* Dodgeball
* Football family
* Gateball
* Handball
* Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Hockey family
* Horseshoe
* Hurling
* Kickball
* Lacrosse
* Loofball
* Mesoamerican ballgame
* Newcomb ball
* Polo
* Paintball
* Quidditch
* Ringette
* Roller derby
* Rowing
* Sepak takraw
* Ultimate (sport)
* Woodsman
* Volleyball

### 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
* Squid Game
* Hunger Games
* Whack-bat
* Blitzball
* Fictional Martial Arts

## Miscellaneous sports

[edit]

Logrolling

* Air guitar
* Arctic sports
* Cheese rolling
* Chess boxing
* Chicken fight
* Competitive eating
* Competitive math
* Conker fighting
* Cook-off
* Drum and bugle corps
* Dwyle Flonking (sport)
* Earthball
* Egg and spoon race
* Extreme ironing
* Extreme Pogo
* Ferret legging
* Fierljeppen
* Footbag (hacky sack)
* Guyball
* Haggis hurling
* Hopscotch
* Jegichagi
* Jeopardy!
* Jump rope
* Double Dutch
* Lawn mower racing
* Lumberjack sports
* Aizkolaritza
* Axe throwing
* Logrolling
* Wood chopping
* Wood splitting
* Marching
* Marching band
* 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
* Wife-carrying
* Woodsman
* Yoyoing

## See also

[edit]

* Individual sport
* List of sports video games
* List of types of games
* Team sport

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Lipoński, Wojciech (2003). "Introduction". World Sports Encyclopedia. Ozgraf. ISBN 0760316821 - via Internet Archive. Former reference version, How many sports are there in the world? ("World Sports Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on July 23, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2013.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)). See ISBN 9780760316825.

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