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]
Physical sports
Acrobatic sports
- Breakdancing
- Competitive dancing
- Dancesport
- Dragon dance and Lion dance
- Figure skating
- Freerunning
- Gymnastics
- High kick
- Parkour
- Pole sports
- Stunt
- Trampolining
- Winter guard
Air sports
Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville.
- Aerobatics
- Air racing
- Cluster ballooning
- Hopper ballooning
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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.
- 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
- Frescotennis
- Jianzi
- Jokgu
- Miniten
- Padel
- Peteca
- Pickleball
- Rocball
- Sepak takraw
- Sipa
- Table squash
- Table tennis
- Tennis
- Beach tennis
- Paddle tennis
- Platform tennis
- Teqball
- Throwball
- Volleyball
- Beach volleyball
- Sitting volleyball
- Water volleyball
- Wallyball
Basketball family
Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- Basketball
- 3x3 basketball
- Beach basketball
- Deaf basketball
- Rezball
- 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
- Baseball
- Baseball5
- Softball
- 16-inch softball
- Fast-pitch softball
- Bat and trap
- Bete-ombro
- Brännboll – four bases
- Corkball – four bases (no base-running)
- 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
- English baseball
- Kickball
- Lapta – two salos (bases)
- The Massachusetts Game – four bases
- Matball
- Oină
- Old cat – variable
- Over-the-line – qv
- Palant
- Pesäpallo – four bases
- Plaquita
- Punchball
- Rounders – four bases or posts
- Schlagball
- Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)
- Stickball – variable
- Stoolball – two stools
- Stoop ball
- Tee-ball
- Town ball – variable
- Vigoro – two wickets
- Vitilla
- Welsh baseball
- Wiffleball
- Wireball
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
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
Climbing
Canyoning
- 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
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
- Mountain unicycling
- Street unicycling
- Unicycling
- Unicycle basketball
- Unicycle hockey
- Unicycle trials
- Flatland unicycling
Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts
A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Grappling
Two men compete in freestyle wrestling.
- Aiki-jūjutsu
- Jujutsu
- Judo
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu
- Judo
- 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
- Oil wrestling
- Amateur wrestling
Striking
A kick in kickboxing.
Mixed or hybrid
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
- Sanda
- 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.
- 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
- Shurikenjutsu
- Silambam
- Sōjutsu
- Sword fighting
- Wing Chun
- Wushu
Other
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Cue sports
Pool balls
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
- 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
Dog sports
Sports in which dogs participate.
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
- Horse racing
- Horse polo, or polo
- Horseball
- Jineteada gaucha
- Jousting
- Mounted games
- Mounted archery
- Pato
- Pleasure driving
- Reining
- Rodeo
- Show hunter (British)
- Show jumping
- Steeplechase
- Sur-papakh
- Team penning
- Tent pegging
- Western pleasure
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
- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Disc golf (urban)
- Dodge disc
- Double disc court
- Freestyle
- Fricket
- Frisbee
- Goaltimate
- KanJam
- Guts
- Flutterguts
- Hot box
- Ultimate
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
- Lelo burti
- Mob football
- Royal Shrovetide Football
- Uppies and Downies
- Association football
- Jorkyball
- Paralympic football
- CP 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
- 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
- Eton College
- 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
- American 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
- Rugby league
- Hybrid codes
- Austus
- International rules football
- Samoa rules
- Speedball
- Universal football
- Volata
Golf
- Beach golf
- Clock golf
- Codeball
- Dart golf
- Disc golf
- Footgolf
- 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
Gymnastics
Trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett at 2008 Canadian National Championships
- 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
- Ball
- Club
- Hoop
- Ribbon
- Rope
- Rope jumping
- Pole dance
- Rope climbing
- Slacklining
- Trampolining
- Trapeze
- Flying trapeze
- Static trapeze
- Tumbling
- Wheel gymnastics
- Calisthenics
Handball family
A 7-meter throw in Handball.
- Balle à la main
- Ballon au poing
- Beach handball
- Czech handball
- Field handball
- Goalball
- Spikeball
- Tchoukball
- Torball
- Water polo
Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
- Beagling
- Big game hunting
- Boar hunting
- Deer hunting
- Fox hunting
- Wolf hunting
Ice sports
- Bandy
- Rink bandy
- Barrel jumping
- Broomball
- Curling
- Figure skating
- Single skating
- Pair skating
- Ice dancing
- Synchronized skating
- Four skating
- Ice theatre
- Ice cross downhill
- Ice football
- Ice hockey
- Sledge hockey
- Spongee
- Ice yachting
- Moscow broomball
- Ringette
- Rinkball
- Speed skating
- Short track speed skating
- Long track speed skating
- Ice stock sport
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
- Eton Fives
- Rugby Fives
- Frisian handball
- Four square
- Gaelic handball
- Jeu de paume
- Longue paume
- Palla
- Pallone
- Patball
- Roundnet
- Valencian pilota
- Llargues
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
- Obstacle racing (OCR)
- Parkour
- Trampolining
- World Chase Tag
Sports that use a netted racket
- 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
- 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)
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.
- 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
Running
200 meters sprint
- 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
- Dinghy sailing
- Ice yachting
- Kiteboarding
- Land sailing
- Land windsurfing
- Sailing
- Windsurfing
- Wing foiling
- Yacht racing
Snow sports
- Broomball (outdoors, snow)
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
United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form.
- Bobsleigh
- Luge
- Shovel racing
- Skibobbing
- Skeleton
- Toboggan
Individual
- 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
- Rifle
- 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 biathlon
- Target sprint
- Pistol skiing
- Orienteering shooting
- Military patrol
- Underwater target shooting
Skirmish
- Airsoft
- Laser tag
- Paintball
Stacking
- Card stacking
- Cup stacking
- Dice stacking
- Sport stacking
Stick and ball games
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
- Floor hockey
- Ice hockey
- Pond hockey
- Power hockey
- Sledge hockey
- Underwater ice hockey
- Inline sledge 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
Cillian Buckley in action for Kilkenny against Galway in a hurling league game
- Cammag
- Hurling
- Camogie
- Shinty
- Composite rules shinty-hurling
Lacrosse
- Lacrosse
- Box lacrosse
- Field lacrosse
- Intercrosse
- Polocrosse
- Women's lacrosse
Polo
Street sports
- Free running
- Freestyle footbag
- Freestyle football
- Powerbocking
- Parkour
- Scootering
- Street workout
Strength sports
- Strongman
Tag games
- 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
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.
- American handball
- Australian handball
- Basque pelota
- Butts Up
- Chinese handball
- Fives
- Gaelic handball
- International fronton
- Jorkyball
- Racquetball
- Squash
- Squash tennis
- Suicide (game)
- Valencian frontó
- Wallball
- Wallyball
Aquatic and paddle sports
These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).
Canoeing
- Canoeing
- Outrigger canoeing
Kayaking
- Creeking
- Flyak
- Freeboating
- Sea kayaking
- Squirt boating
- Surf kayaking
- Whitewater kayaking
Rafting
Rafting
- Rafting
- White water rafting
Rowing
- Rowing (sport)
- Gig racing
- Coastal and ocean rowing
- Surfboat
- Single scull
Other paddling sports
- Dragon boat racing
- Stand up paddle boarding
Surface
- Water polo
- Canoe polo
- Stone skipping
- Waboba
Underwater
- Underwater football
- Underwater rugby
- Underwater hockey
- Underwater ice hockey
Competitive swimming
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly stroke
- Freestyle swimming
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
- Bifins (finswimming)
- Surface finswimming
Subsurface and recreational
- 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.
- Basque traditional weightlifting
- CrossFit
- Highland games
- Kettlebell lifting
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Strength athletics (strongman)
- Steinstossen
Auto racing
The start of a Formula One race in 2008
- 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
- Drag boat racing
- F1 powerboat racing
- Hydroplane racing
- Jet sprint boat racing
- Offshore powerboat racing
- Personal water craft
Motorcycle racing
MotoGP 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
Marker sports
- Airsoft
- Archery
- Paintball
- Darts
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
- Contract bridge
- Hanafuda
- Poker
- Classic poker
- Omaha
- Online poker
- Texas hold'em
- Skat
- Truco
- Whist
Esports
- Battle royale game
- Combat flight simulation game
- Digital collectible card game
- Fighting game
- First-person shooter
- Multiplayer online battle arena
- Real-time strategy
- Rhythm game
- Sim racing
- Sports video game
- Third-person shooter
- Tile-matching video game
- Virtual reality game
Other
- Competitive programming
- Debating
- Fantasy sport
- Quizzing
Speedcubing
- Speedcubing
- 2x2x2
- 3x3x3
- 3x3x3 One-Handed
- 4x4x4
- 5x5x5
- 6x6x6
- 7x7x7
- Megaminx
- Pyraminx
- Rubik's Clock
- Skewb
- Square-1
Strategy board games
A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China
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
Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
- Combat robot
- Competitive programming
- Contesting
- Fitness game
- 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
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Skating sports
- 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
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
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
- Arm wrestling
Arm wrestling
- Bodybuilding
- CrossFit
- 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
- 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)
- Paper Football
- 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.
- Archery
- Axe throwing
- Bocce
- Bocce volo
- Boccia
- Bolas criollas
- Boules
- Bowling
- Ten-pin bowling
- Duckpin bowling
- Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
- Calva
- Candlepin bowling
- Cornhole
- Croquet
- Cue sports
- Curling
- Darts
- Disc golf
- Golf
- Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)
- Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
- KanJam
- Knife throwing
- Kubb
- Lawn darts
- Matball
- Mölkky
- Pall mall
- Pétanque
- Pitch and putt
- Ring-goal
- Shooting
- Shuffleboard
- Skittles
- Skee ball
- Tejo
- Trugo
- Varpa
- Woodball
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
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
Miscellaneous sports
Logrolling
- Air guitar
- Arctic sports
- Cheese rolling
- Chess boxing
- Chicken fight
- Competitive eating
- Competitive math
- Conker fighting
- Cornhole
- Drum and bugle corps
- Egg and spoon race
- Extreme ironing
- Extreme Pogo
- Ferret legging
- Fierljeppen
- Footbag (hacky sack)
- Guyball
- Haggis hurling
- Jegichagi
- Jeopardy!
- Lawn mower racing
- Lumberjack sports
- Aizkolaritza
- Axe throwing
- Logrolling
- Wood chopping
- Wood splitting
- Object spinning
- Padiddling
- Plate spinning
- Top
- Patball
- Quiz Bowl
- Pea shooting
- Ring-goal
- Ringette
- Sack race
- Soap shoes
- Tennikoit
- Tetherball
- Three-legged race
- Wallball
- Wife-carrying
- Yoyoing
- Marching band
- Redneck Games
- Stihl Timbersports Series
- Ultimate Tazer Ball
- Woodsman
See also
- Individual sport
- List of sports video games
- List of types of games
- Team sport
References
- 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.
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