List of sports
Template:Short description 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
- Acrobatics
- Artistic cycling
- Color guard (flag spinning)
- Dancing
- Cheerleading
- Figure skating
- Freerunning
- High kick
- Motorcycle stunt riding
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Pole sports
- Quadrobics
- Slackwire
- Slacklining
- Tightrope walking
- Trampolining
- Tricking
Air sports
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- Aerobatics
- Air racing
- Gliding
- Hang gliding
- Human-powered aircraft
- Kiteboarding
- Model aircraft
- Parachuting
- BASE jumping
- Canopy piloting
- Skysurfing
- Wingsuit flying
- Bodyflight (indoor skydiving)
- Paragliding
- Powered paragliding (paramotoring)
- Ultralight aviation
Animal sports
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Bovines
- Bull-leaping
- Bullfighting
- Bull wrestling
- Idi probak
- Kambala
- Pacu jawi
- Running of the bulls
- Yak polo
- Yak racing
- Yak skiing
Dog sports
Sports in which dogs participate.
- Baiting
- Dog fighting
- Venatio
- Hog-dog rodeo
- Sheepdog trial
- Treibball
- Heelwork to music
- Musical canine freestyle
- Obedience trial
- Rally obedience
- Schutzhund
- Bikejoring
- Canicross
- Carting
- Dog scootering
- Mushing
- Skijoring
- Weight pulling
- Dachshund racing
- Greyhound racing
- Shepherd's Shemozzle
- Sled dog racing
- Terrier racing
- Beagling
- Coon hunting
- Coursing
- Drag hunting
- Earthdog trial
- Field trial
- Fox hunting
- Hare coursing
- Hound trailing
- Hunting the clean boot
- Lure coursing
- Nosework
- Tracking trial
- Trail hunting
- Dock jumping
- Dog surfing
- Agility
- Dog show
- Dog skateboarding
- Disc dog
- Flyball
- Junior showmanship
- Puppy Bowl
Equines
Sports using a horse.
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Fishing
- Angling
- Big-game fishing
- Casting
- Noodling
- Spearfishing
- Sport fishing
- Surf fishing
- Rock fishing
- Fly fishing
- Ice fishing
- Bass fishing
Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
Rodeo-originated
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- Barrel racing
- Bronc riding
- Saddle Bronc Riding
- Bareback Bronc Riding
- Bull riding
- Charrería
- Chilean rodeo
- Goat tying
- Pole bending
- Roping
- Steer riding
- Steer wrestling
Others
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Athletics
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Jumping
Throwing
Running
- Endurance
- Sprint
- Relay race
- Hurdles
- Shuttle hurdle relay
Combined
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Ball games
Bat-and-ball games (safe haven games)
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Billiards
Cue sports
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Boules sports
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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
- Ice stock sport
- Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
- Marbles
- Pétanque
- Raffa
- Shuffleboard
Bowling
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- Candlepin bowling
- Duckpin bowling
- Five-pin bowling
- Nine-pin bowling
- Ten-pin bowling
- Trick bowling
- Turkey bowling
- Basque bowls
- Fowling
- Skittles
Dodgeball family
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Golf
Sports which score is counted in reference to par
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Invasion games
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Basketball family
- Basketball
- 3x3 basketball
- Beach basketball
- Biddy Basketball
- Deaf basketball
- Donkey basketball
- Hotshot
- One-on-one
- Piterbasket
- Pop-A-Shot
- Rezball
- Roller basketball[5]
- 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
- Pato
- Ringball
Football family
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- Historical
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- Modern codes
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Handball family
- Czech handball
- Field handball
- Rollball
- Visual impaired
- Water polo
- Beach water polo
Stick and ball family
Sports that use some kind of sticks for scoring goals.
Hockey
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Hurling and shinty
Lacrosse
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- Indigenous North American stickball
- Field lacrosse
- Box lacrosse
- Women's lacrosse
- Lacrosse sixes
- Intercrosse
- Wheelchair lacrosse[10]
- Polocrosse
- Segway rugpolocrosse
Polo
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- Auto polo
- Sagol kāngjei
- Arena polo
- Bicycle polo
- Camel polo
- Cowboy polo
- Elephant polo
- Hobby horse polo
- Roda Polo
- Segway polo
- Snow polo
- Unicycle polo
- Yak polo
Other goal sports
- Anejodi
- Autoball
- Cycleball
- Elephant football
- Foobaskill
- Home Ball
- Motoball
- Nashball
- Pearl ball
- Pushball
- Quidditch
- Tennis polo
- Treibball
- Whirlyball
Net and wall games
Sports when players/teams score whenever the opponent fails to return validly the possession of ball/bird back.
Pilota family
- American handball
- Australian handball
- Basque pelota
- Chaza
- Downball
- Fives
- Frisian handball
- Four square or FS Handball
- Gaelic handball
- Gain-ground
- Jeu de paume
- One-wall handball
- Palla
- Pallone
- Patball
- Roundnet
- Schoolyard handball
- Valencian pilota
- Welsh handball
Racket (or racquet) sports
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- Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports)
Sports that use a netted racket
- Badminton
- Frontenis
- Battledore and shuttlecock
- Crossminton
- Qianball
- Rackets
- Racquetball
- Real tennis
- Road tennis
- Soft tennis
- Speed-ball
- Squash
- Stické
- Tennis
- Touchtennis
Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle
- Basque pelota
- Beach tennis
- Downside ball game
- Four wall paddleball
- Frescobol
- Hanetsuki
- Jombola
- Matkot
- Miniten
- One wall paddleball
- Paddle ball
- Paddle tennis
- Padel
- Paleta frontón
- Pan Pong
- Pelota mixteca
- Pickleball
- Platform tennis
- Sphairee
- Table squash
- Table tennis (Ping Pong)
Other ball sports
Board sports
Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
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- Hoverboarding
- Kite landboarding
- Land sailing
- Skateboarding
- Scootering
- Skysurfing
- Skwal
- Snowboarding
- Surfing
- Wakeboarding
- Paddleboarding
Climbing
- Competition climbing
- Competition bouldering
- Competition ice climbing
- Competition lead climbing
- Competition speed climbing
- Ice climbing
- Mountaineering
- Paraclimbing
- Rock climbing
- Solo climbing
- Top rope climbing
- Other
- Canyoning (Canyoneering)
- Coasteering
- Hiking
- Pole climbing
- Rope climbing
- Sawanobori
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
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Mixed or hybrid
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Weapons
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Other
Flying disc sports
- 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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Kite sports
- Hang gliding
- Kite buggy
- Kite fighting
- Kite ice skating
- Kite landboarding
- Kitesurfing
- Parasailing
- Snowkiting
- Sport kite (Stunt kite)
Mixed discipline
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- Adventure racing
- Racketlon
- Biathlon
- Coast to Coast
- Triathlon
- Quadrathlon
- Pentathlon
- Hexathlon
- Heptathlon
- Octathlon
- Decathlon
- Tetradecathlon
- Icosathlon
- Ski orienteering
- Swimrun
Motorsports
Sports involving manned motorized vehicles
Aircraft
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- Aerobatics
- Air racing
- Powered gliding
- Stunt flying
Motorboat
- Drag boat racing
- Hydroplane racing
- Inshore powerboat racing
- Jet sprint boat racing
- Offshore powerboat racing
- Personal watercraft
Terrestrial vehicles
Automobile
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Motorcycle
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Others
- All-terrain vehicle competition
- Electric bike racing[17]
- Electric scooter racing
- Electric skateboard racing[18]
- Electric unicycle race
- Hoverboarding
- Ice racing
- Monowheel run
- Rickshaw run
- Segway polo
- Snocross
- Snowmobiling
- Snowmobile skipping
- Whirlyball
Orienteering
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- Amateur radio direction finding (Radio Orienteering)
- Canoe orienteering
- Car orienteering
- Geocaching
- Geohashing
- Letterboxing
- Mounted orienteering
- Orienteering
- Rogaining
- Urban exploration
- Waymarking
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
Pedal vehicle
Human-powered vehicles propelled by pedals
Cycling
Sports using bicycles, quadracycles, tricycles or unicycles.
Bicycle
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- Artistic cycling
- BMX
- Cycle ball
- Cycle 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
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Tricycle
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- Handcycle
- Recumbent tricycle racing
- Wheelchair racing
Unicycle
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- Icetrack cycling
- Mountain unicycling
- Street unicycling
- Unicycling
- Unicycle basketball
- Unicycle football
- Unicycle hockey
- Unicycle polo
- Unicycle trials
Watercraft
- Pedal boat racing
Racing
- Running
- Skating
Shooting sports
Archery
- Archery
- Dartchery
- Field archery
- Flight archery
- Gungdo
- Indoor archery
- Kyūdō
- Match crossbow
- Mounted archery
- Popinjay
- Run archery
- Target archery
Gun sports
Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.).
Individual
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- 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
Skating sports
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Snow sports
Skiing
- Alpine skiing
- Backcountry skiing
- Monoski
- Nordic skiing
- Ice sledge racing
- Ski mountaineering
- Ski touring
- Skijoring
- Teleboard
- Telemark skiing
- Grass skiing
Sled sports
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Stacking
Strength sports
Tag games
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- 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
Water sports
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Aquatic ball sports
Surface
- Water polo
- Beach water polo
- Canoe polo
- Stone skipping
- Waboba
Underwater
Competitive swimming
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- Swimming stroke
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
- Bifins (finswimming)
- Surface finswimming
Diving
Subsurface and recreational
- 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
Non motorized vehicles
Paddling sports
Canoeing and kayaking
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Rafting
Rowing
Other paddling sports
Sailing
- Dinghy sailing
- Fleet racing
- Ice yachting
- Kiteboarding
- Land sailing
- Land windsurfing
- Sailing
- Windsurfing
- Wing foiling
- Yacht racing
Weightlifting
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- Basque traditional weightlifting
- CrossFit
- Highland games
- Kettlebell lifting
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Bodybuilding
- Strength athletics (strongman)
- Steinstossen
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
Combination puzzle
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- Speedsolving
- Tetrahedron
- Cube
- Skewb Diamond (octahedron)
- Dodecahedron
- Dogic (icosahedron)
- Other
Competitive model sports
Remote control
- Drone racing
- Model aerobatics
- RC racing
- Robot competition
- Robot combat
- Robot boxing[19]
- Robot-sumo
- Robot football
- Robot combat
- Slot car racing
Esports
- Battle royale game
- Digital collectible card game
- Fighting game
- Multiplayer online battle arena
- Puzzle video game
- Real-time tactics
- Rhythm game
- Shooter game
- Speedrunning
- Sports video game
- Strategy video game
- Vehicle simulation game
Strategy board games
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Other
- Competitive programming
- Debating
- Fantasy sport
- Quizzing
- Capture the flag (cybersecurity)
- Puzzles
- Tic-tac-toe
Both physical and mind
Different classification
Potentially other sports are listed here.
Air sports
Beach sports
Versions of sports played on sand
- Beach basketball
- Beach golf
- Beach handball
- Beach hockey
- Beach karate
- Beach rugby
- Beach soccer
- Beach tennis
- Beach volleyball
- Beach volleyball 4x4
- Beach wrestling
Compromise rules
Electronic sports
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
- Chariot racing
- Cross-country skiing
- Cycling
- Iditarod
- Long-distance running
- Rowing
- Swimming
- Wheelchair racing
- Woodchopping
Ice sports
- Figure skating
- Hockey
- Bandy
- Broomball
- Moscow broomball
- Ice hockey
- Ringette
- Ice cricket
- Ice fishing
- Ice football
- Icetrack cycling
- Ice yachting
- Sled
- Speed skating
- Target
Marker sports
Parasports
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Visual impaired
- Audio Darts
- Blind baseball
- Blind cricket
- Blind football
- Blind inline hockey
- Goalball
- Torball
- Para judo
- Showdown
Wheelchair sports
Para-versions of sports played using wheelchairs
- Power hockey
- Wheelchair American Football
- Wheelchair Australian rules football
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair curling
- Wheelchair dancesport
- Wheelchair fencing
- Wheelchair handball
- Wheelchair lacrosse
- Wheelchair netball
- Wheelchair pickleball
- Wheelchair racing
- Wheelchair rugby
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Wheelchair soccer
- Wheelchair tennis
Other
- Adaptive Standing Tennis
- Boccia
- Deaf basketball
- Deaf cricket
- One-armed versus one-legged cricket
- Table Cricket
- Ice sledge racing
- Inline sledge hockey
- Sledge hockey
- Special hockey
- Midget wrestling
- Para-alpine skiing
- Para-athletics
- Para-badminton
- Paracanoe
- Paraclimbing
- Para-cycling
- Para-equestrian
- Para-gymnastics
- Paralympic football
- Paralympic Nordic skiing
- Paralympic powerlifting
- Paralympic shooting
- Pararowing
- Para snowboard
- Para-strongman[20]
- Para surfing
- Para swimming
- Para table tennis
- Para taekwondo
- Paratriathlon
- Sitting volleyball
- Standing volleyball
- Beach ParaVolley
Snow sports
- Boardercross
- Freestyle snowboarding
- Ski flying
- Skibob
- Snow baseball
- Snowboarding
- Snowshoe running
- Snow golf
- Snow volleyball
- Skiboarding
- Yukigassen
Street sports
- Free running and jumping
- Freestyle footbag
- Freestyle football
- Powerbocking
- Parkour
- Scootering
- Street workout
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
- Arm wrestling
- CrossFit
- High striker
- Highland games
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Rock climbing
- Strongman
- Thumb wrestling
- Toe wrestling
- Tug of war
- Woodchopping
- Wood splitting
- Zourkhaneh
- Calisthenics
Tabletop games
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- 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 baseball
- Tabletop sports
- Yahtzee
Target sports
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
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Team sports
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Sports that involve teams.
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Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
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
- Fictional Martial Arts
Miscellaneous sports
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See also
References
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