List of sports

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The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category.

According to the World Sports Encyclopedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games.[1]

Physical sports[]

Acrobatic sports[]

  • Breakdancing
  • Cheerleading
  • Competitive dancing
  • Dancesport
  • Dragon dance and Lion dance
  • Freerunning
  • Gymnastics
  • High kick
  • Parkour
  • Pole sports
  • Stunt
  • Trampolining

Air sports[]

Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville.
Main article: Air sports
  • Aerobatics
  • Air racing
    • Cluster ballooning
    • Hopper ballooning
Wingsuit flying
  • Gliding
  • Hang gliding
    • Powered hang glider
  • Human powered aircraft
  • Model aircraft
  • Parachuting
    • Banzai skydiving
    • BASE jumping
    • Skysurfing
    • Wingsuit flying
  • Paragliding
    • Powered paragliding
  • Paramotoring
  • Ultralight aviation

Archery[]

Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.
Main article: Archery
  • Field archery
  • Flight archery
  • Gungdo
  • Indoor archery
  • Kyūdō
  • Mounted archery
  • Popinjay
  • Run archery
  • Target archery

Ball-over-net games[]

An international match of volleyball.
  • Badminton
  • Ball badminton
  • Biribol
  • Bossaball
  • Fistball
  • Footbag net
  • Football tennis
  • Footvolley
  • Hooverball
  • Jianzi
  • Jokgu
  • Miniten
  • Padel
  • Peteca
  • Pickleball
  • Rocball
  • Sepak takraw
  • Sipa
  • Table squash
  • Table tennis
  • Tennis
  • Teqball
  • Throwball
  • Volleyball
  • Wallyball

Basketball family[]

Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  • Basketball
    • 3x3 basketball
    • Beach basketball
    • Deaf basketball
    • Streetball
    • Unicycle basketball
    • Water basketball
    • Wheelchair basketball
  • Cestoball
  • Flickerball
  • Korfball
  • Netball
    • Fastnet
    • Indoor netball
  • Ringball
  • Slamball

Bat-and-ball[]

Awaiting a pitch: batter, catcher, and umpire in baseball
Main article: Bat-and-ball games
  • Baseball
    • Baseball5
    • Softball
      • 16-inch softball
      • Fast-pitch softball
  • Bat and trap
  • British baseball – four posts
  • Brännboll – four bases
  • Corkball – four bases (no base-running)
  • Cricket – two creases
  • Danish longball
  • Elle
  • Kickball
  • Lapta – two salos (bases)
  • The Massachusetts Game – four bases
  • Matball
  • Oina
  • Old cat – variable
  • Over-the-line – qv
  • Palant
  • Pesäpallo – four bases
  • Punchball
  • Rounders – four bases or posts
  • Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)
  • Stickball – variable
  • Stool ball – two stools
  • Tee-ball
  • Town ball – variable
  • Vigoro – two wickets
  • Wireball
  • Wiffleball

Board sports[]

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
  • Scootering
  • Skysurfing
  • Streetluge
  • Snowboarding
    • Mountainboarding
    • Sandboarding
    • Snowkiting
  • Surfing
    • Bodyboarding
    • Dog surfing
    • Riverboarding
    • Skimboarding
    • Wakesurfing
    • Windsurfing
  • Wakeboarding
    • Kneeboarding
  • Paddleboarding

Catching games[]

  • Dodgeball
  • Frisbee
  • Gaga
  • Keep away
  • Kin-Ball
  • Newcomb ball
  • Quidditch
  • Yukigassen

Climbing[]

Canyoning
Main article: Climbing
  • Abseiling
  • Aid climbing
  • Ice climbing
  • Mixed climbing
  • Mountaineering
  • Rock climbing
    • Bouldering
    • Deep-water soloing
    • Sport climbing
    • Traditional climbing
    • Speed climbing
    • Sawanobori
  • Other
    • Canyoning (Canyoneering)
    • Coasteering
    • Hiking
    • Rope climbing
    • Pole climbing

Cycling[]

A track cycling Race
Main article: Cycle sport

Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle[]

Main article: Bicycle
  • Artistic cycling
  • BMX
  • Cyclo-cross
  • Cycle polo
  • Cycle speedway
  • Downhill mountain biking
  • Dirt jumping
  • Freestyle BMX
  • Hardcourt Bike Polo
  • Mountain biking
  • Road bicycle racing
  • Track cycling
  • Underwater cycling

Skibob[]

  • Skibobbing

Unicycle[]

Main article: Unicycle
  • Mountain unicycling
  • Street unicycling
  • Unicycling
  • Unicycle basketball
  • Unicycle hockey
  • Unicycle trials

Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts[]

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[]

Main article: Grappling
Two men compete in freestyle wrestling.
  • Aiki-jūjutsu
    • Aikido
  • Beeni
  • 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
      • Professional wrestling
      • Schwingen
      • Shuai jiao
      • Ssireum
      • Varzesh-e Pahlavani
      • Yağlı Güreş
    • Greek wrestling

Striking[]

Main article: Strike (attack)
A kick in kickboxing.
  • Bajiquan
  • Bokator
  • Boxing
  • Capoeira
  • Chess boxing
  • Choi Kwang-Do
  • Fujian White Crane
  • Karate
  • Kenpō
  • Kickboxing
  • Lethwei
  • Muay Thai
  • Pradal serey
  • Sanshou
  • Savate
  • Shaolin Kung Fu
  • Shin-kicking
  • Sikaran
  • Silat
  • Subak
  • Taekkyeon
  • Taekwondo
  • Taidō
  • Tang Soo Do
  • Vovinam
  • Wing Chun

Mixed or hybrid[]

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
  • Okichitaw
  • Pankration
  • Pencak Silat
  • Sanshou
  • Shidōkan Karate
  • Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
  • Shooto
  • Shoot boxing
  • Shootfighting
  • Shorinji Kempo
  • Systema
  • T'ai chi ch'uan
  • Unifight
  • Vajra-mushti
  • Vale tudo
  • Xing Yi Quan
  • Zen Bu Kan Kempo

Weapons[]

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

Cue sports[]

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
    • Cutthroat
    • Killer
    • Russian pyramid
  • Snooker
  • Hybrid carom–pocket games
    • English billiards
    • Bottle pool
    • Cowboy
  • Obstacle variations
  • Table Sports
    • Foosball

Dog sports[]

Sports in which dogs participate.

Main article: List of dog sports

Equestrian sports[]

Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007

Sports using a horse.


Fishing[]

Main article: Fishing
  • Angling
  • Big-game fishing
  • Casting
  • Noodling
  • Spearfishing
  • Sport fishing
  • Surf fishing
  • Rock fishing
  • Fly fishing
  • Ice fishing
  • Bass fishing

Flying disc sports[]

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
  • Ultimate

Football[]

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
  • Association football
    • Jorkyball
    • Paralympic football
    • Powerchair Football
    • Reduced variants
    • 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
  • 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
  • Rugby football
  • Hybrid codes

Golf[]

Main article: Golf

Gymnastics[]

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
  • Juggling
    • Baton twirling
  • Parkour
  • Rhythmic gymnastics
  • Rope jumping
  • Pole dance
  • Rope climbing
  • Slacklining
  • Trampolining
  • Trapeze
  • Tumbling
  • Wheel gymnastics
  • Calisthenics

Competitive yoga[]

Main article: Competitive yoga

Handball family[]

A 7-meter throw in Handball.
Main article: Handball

Hunting[]

Main article: Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

  • Beagling
  • Big game hunting
  • Deer hunting
  • Fox hunting
  • Wolf hunting

Ice sports[]

Kite sports[]

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

Mixed discipline[]

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

Orienteering family[]

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

Pilota family[]

Valencian pilota.
  • American handball
  • Australian handball
  • Basque pelota
    • Jai alai
  • Fives
  • Frisian handball
  • Four square
  • Gaelic handball
  • Jeu de paume
  • Palla
  • Pallone
  • Patball
  • Roundnet
  • Valencian pilota

Parkour/Freerunning[]

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
  • OCR
  • Parkour
  • Trampolining
  • World Chase Tag

Racket (or racquet) sports[]

Racket sports are games in which players use rackets to hit a ball or other object. However, this list is broader and includes sport disciplines where players use paddles (hand-held frame with flat boards or planks instead of strings).

Carolina Marín, a badminton player
David Palmer and Tom Richards, two squash players
Uładzimir Samsonaŭ, a table tennis player
Justine Henin, a tennis player
  • Badminton
  • Ball badminton
  • Basque pelota
    • Frontenis
    • Xare
  • Battledore and shuttlecock
  • Beach tennis
  • Cricket
  • Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
  • The Downside Ball Game
  • Four wall paddleball
  • Frescotennis
  • Matkot
  • Miniten
  • One wall paddleball
  • Paddle ball
  • Paddle tennis
  • Padel
  • Pan Pong
  • Paleta Frontón
  • Pelota mixteca
  • Pickleball
  • Pitton
  • Platform tennis
  • Qianball
  • Racketlon
  • Rackets
  • Racquetball
  • Real tennis
  • Road tennis
  • Soft tennis
  • Speed-ball
  • Sphairee
  • Squash
  • Squash tennis
  • Stické
  • Street Racket
  • Table squash
  • Table tennis
  • Tennis
  • Tennis polo

Remote control[]

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

Rodeo-originated[]

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

Running[]

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
  • Sprint
  • Hurdles

Sailing[]

Windsurfing
Main article: Sailing
  • Dinghy sailing
  • Ice yachting
  • Kiteboarding
  • Land sailing
  • Land windsurfing
  • Sailing
  • Windsurfing
  • Yacht racing

Snow sports[]

Skiing[]

Main article: Skiing
  • Alpine skiing
    • Downhill
    • Super-G
    • Giant slalom
    • Slalom
    • Alpine skiing combined
    • Freestyle skiing
    • Speed skiing
  • Nordic skiing
    • Cross-country skiing
    • Ski jumping
    • Nordic combined
    • Telemark skiing
  • Ski mountaineering
  • Ski touring
  • Skijoring

Sled sports[]

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

Shooting sports[]

Main article: Shooting sports

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

Individual[]

  • Clay pigeon shooting
    • Skeet shooting
    • Trap shooting
    • Sporting clays
  • Bullseye shooting
  • 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

Athletic hybrid[]

  • Modern pentathlon
  • Biathlon
  • Summer biathlon
  • Ski field shooting
  • Field running
  • Moose biathon
  • Target sprint
  • Pistol skiing
  • Orienteering shooting
  • Military patrol
  • Underwater target shooting

Skirmish[]

  • Airsoft
  • Laser tag
  • Paintball

Stacking[]

Stick and ball games[]

  • Hornussen

Hockey[]

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
    • Ice hockey
      • Pond hockey
      • Power hockey
      • Sledge hockey
      • Underwater ice hockey
    • Inline sledge hockey
    • Ringette
    • Rinkball
    • Roller hockey
    • Rossall Hockey
    • Spongee
    • Street hockey
    • Underwater hockey
    • Unicycle hockey

Hurling and shinty[]

Cillian Buckley in action for Kilkenny against Galway in a hurling league game
  • Cammag
  • Hurling
    • Camogie
  • Shinty
  • Composite rules shinty-hurling

Lacrosse[]

Polo[]

  • Polo
    A polo player.
    • Bicycle polo
    • Canoe polo
    • Cowboy polo
    • Elephant polo
    • Hobby horse polo
    • Segway polo
    • Yak polo

Street sports[]

  • Free running
  • Freestyle footbag
  • Freestyle football
  • Powerbocking
  • Parkour
  • Scootering
  • Street workout

Strength sports[]

  • Strongman

Tag games[]

Main article: Tag games
  • Bo-taoshi
  • British bulldogs (American Eagle)
  • Capture the flag
  • Hana Ichi Monme
  • Hide and seek
  • Jugger
  • Kabaddi
  • Kho kho
  • Kick the can
  • Marco Polo
  • Oztag
  • Red rover
  • Tag
  • World Chase Tag

Walking[]

  • Backpacking (hiking)
  • Bushwhacking
  • Hiking
  • Racewalking
  • Walking

Wall-and-ball[]

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.

Aquatic & paddle sports[]

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

Main article: Water sports
Further information: Outline of kayaking and canoeing

Canoeing[]

  • Canoeing
  • Outrigger canoeing

Kayaking[]

Main article: Kayaking

Rafting[]

Rafting
  • Rafting
  • White water rafting

Rowing[]

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

Other paddling sports[]

  • Dragon boat racing
  • Stand up paddle boarding
Greece – Hungary water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples, Italy)

Aquatic ball sports[]

Surface[]
  • Water polo
  • Canoe polo
  • Waboba
Underwater[]
  • Underwater football
  • Underwater rugby
  • Underwater hockey

Competitive swimming[]

Main article: Competitive swimming
  • Backstroke
  • Breaststroke
  • Butterfly stroke
  • Freestyle swimming
  • Individual medley
  • Synchronized swimming
  • Medley relay
Kindred activities[]
  • Bifins (finswimming)
  • Surface finswimming

Subsurface and recreational[]

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[]

  • Cliff diving
  • Diving

Weightlifting[]

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
  • Strength athletics (strongman)
  • Steinstossen

Motorized sports[]

Auto racing[]

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
  • 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[]

Main article: Offshore powerboat racing

Motorcycle racing[]

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[]

ATV racing on a motocross track
  • All-terrain vehicle competition

Marker sports[]

  • Airsoft
  • Archery
  • Paintball
  • Darts

Fantasy sports[]

Sports seen in movies, literature, etc.

  • Quidditch
  • Hunger Games (Gladiating)
  • Whack-bat (Fantastic Mr Fox)
  • Blitzball (Final Fantasy)
  • Calvinball

Other[]

  • Redneck Games
  • Stihl Timbersports Series
  • Ultimate Tazer Ball
  • Woodsman

Overlapping sports[]

Sports falling into two or more categories.

  • Tennis
  • Polocrosse
  • Badminton
  • Polo
  • Chess Boxing

Mind sports[]

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[]

Main articles: Card game and List of card games
  • Contract bridge
  • Hanafuda
  • Poker
  • Skat
  • Truco
  • Whist

Esports[]

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
  • Sim racing
  • Sports video game
  • Third-person shooter
  • Virtual reality game

Other[]

  • Competitive Programming
  • Debating
  • Fantasy sports
  • Quizzing

Speedcubing[]

Strategy board games[]

A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China
Main articles: Board Games and List of board games
  • Arimaa
  • Backgammon
  • Checkers
  • Chess
    • Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
    • Losing chess
  • Chinese checkers
  • Diplomacy
  • Dominoes
  • Draughts
  • Go
  • Go-Moku
  • Jacquet
  • Janggi
  • Ludo
  • Mahjong
  • Mancala
  • Reversi
  • Risk
  • Scrabble
  • Sholo Guti
  • Sogo (Score four)
  • Stratego
  • Sudoku
  • Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
  • Yut

Competitive model sports[]

  • Mini 4WD
  • Model aircraft racing
  • Model yacht racing
  • Neppis
  • Slot car racing

Different classification[]

Potentially other sports are listed here.

Air sports[]

  • Banzai skydiving
  • Bungee jumping
  • Hot air ballooning

Athletics (track and field)[]

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

Electronic sports[]

Sports played using electronic devices.

  • Combat robot
  • Contesting
  • Radio-control vehicles
  • Video gaming

Endurance sports[]

  • Chariot racing
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Cycling
  • Iditarod
  • Long-distance running
  • Rowing
  • Swimming
  • Wheelchair racing
  • Wood chopping

Goal sports[]

Main article: Goal (sport)

Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.

  • Basketball family
  • Football family
  • Handball family
  • Hockey family
  • Lacrosse
  • Polo
  • Waterpolo
  • Quidditch

Skating sports[]

  • Aggressive inline skating
  • Artistic roller skating
  • Figure skating
  • Freestyle slalom skating
  • Ice dancing
  • Ice skating
  • Inline speed skating
  • Rinkball
  • Roller derby
  • Roller hockey
    • Inline hockey
    • Inline skater hockey
    • Rink hockey
  • Roller skating
  • Short track speed skating
  • Speed skating
  • Synchronized skating

Snowsports[]

A snowboarder and a skier
A ski jumper using the V-style
  • Boardercross
  • Freestyle snowboarding
Freestyle skiing

See #Skiing

Strength sports[]

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

  • Arm wrestling
Arm wrestling
  • CrossFit
  • Highland games
  • Olympic weightlifting
  • Powerlifting
  • Rock climbing
  • Strongman
  • Thumb wrestling
  • Toe wrestling
  • Tug-o-war
  • Wood chopping
  • Wood splitting
  • Zourkhaneh
  • Calisthenics

Table sports[]

  • Air hockey
  • Backgammon
  • Beer Pong
  • Connect Four
  • Cue sports (a.k.a Billiards)
  • Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
  • Dominoes
  • Headis
  • Janggi
  • Mahjong (a.k.a. Taipei)
  • Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
  • Scrabble
  • Subbuteo
  • Table football
  • Table hockey
  • Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
  • Teqball
  • Xiangqi

Target sports[]

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

Team sports[]

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
  • Football family
  • Gateball
  • Handball
  • Hardcourt Bike Polo
  • Hockey family
  • Horseshoe
  • Hurling
  • Kickball
  • Lacrosse
  • Mesoamerican ballgame
  • Newcomb ball
  • Polo
  • Paintball
  • Quidditch
  • Ringette
  • Roller derby
  • Rowing
  • Sepak takraw
  • Ultimate (sport)
  • Underwater football
  • Woodsman
  • Volleyball

Windsports[]

Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):

  • Kite flying
  • Parachuting
  • Hot air balloon racing

Fictional sports[]

Main article: List of fictional games § Sports

Miscellaneous sports[]

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See also[]

  • Flying disc games
  • Individual sport
  • List of ball games
  • List of sports video games
  • List of types of games
  • Team sport

References[]

  1. ^ How many sports are there in the world? ("Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 23, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)). See ISBN 9780760316825.
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