List of sports
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The following is a list of sports, divided by category. There are many more sports to be added. This system has a disadvantage because some sports may fit in more than one category.
[edit] Physical sports
[edit] Underwater Sports
[edit] Ball Sports
[edit] Competitive Swimming
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly stroke
- Freestyle swimming
- Individual Medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
[edit] Underwater Diving
[edit] Archery
[edit] Auto racing
- Autocross
- Autograss
- Banger racing
- Board track racing
- Combine Racing
- Demolition derby
- Dirt track racing
- Drag racing
- Drifting
- Folkrace
- Formula racing
- Hillclimbing
- Ice racing
- Kart racing
- Legends car racing
- Midget car racing
- Off-road racing
- Open wheel racing
- Pickup truck racing
- Production car racing
- Rallycross
- Rallying
- Road racing
- Short track motor racing
- Slalom
- Sports car racing
- Sprint car racing
- Sprinting
- Street racing
- Stock car racing
- Time Attack
- Touring car racing
- Truck racing
[edit] Ballooning
[edit] Bat-and-ball
- Baseball - four bases
- Bat-and-Trap
- British baseball - four posts
- Brännboll - four bases
- Corkball - four bases (no base-running)
- Cricket - two wickets
- Lapta - two salos (bases)
- The Massachusetts Game - four bases
- Oina - One (Two, Three, or Four)
- Old Cat - variable
- Over-the-line - qv
- Pesäpallo - four bases
- Podex
- Rounders - four bases or posts
- Scrub baseball - four bases (not a team game per se)
- Softball - four bases
- Spanish Wiffleball - two bases or posts
- Stickball - variable
- Stool ball - two stools
- T-Ball
- Town ball - variable
- K-Ball
- Vigoro - two wickets
- Wireball
[edit] Board sports
Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
[edit] Boules
[edit] Bowling
[edit] Catch games
[edit] Climbing
- Rock Climbing
- Bouldering
- Canyoning (Canyoneering)
- Mountaineering
- Rope Climbing
- Ice Climbing
[edit] Cycling
Cycling sports using bicycles or unicycles.
[edit] Bicycle
[edit] Skibob
[edit] Unicycle
[edit] Combat sports
Combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
[edit] Grappling
[edit] Skirmish
[edit] Weapons
[edit] Striking
[edit] Mixed or hybrid
[edit] Competitive aerobatics
[edit] Powered
[edit] Unpowered
[edit] Cue sports
- Carom billiards
- Novuss
- Pocket billiards (pool)
- Snooker
- Hybrid carom–pocket games
- Obstacle variations
[edit] Dance
- Ballet
- Ballroom Dancing
- Cheerleading
- Ensemble
- Flamenco
- Hip-hop
- Interpretive
- Jazz
- Latin
- Lyrical
- Modern dance
- Musical Theatre
- Pointe
- Pole
- Poms
- Salsa
- SloModern
- Swing
- Tap
[edit] Equine Sports
Sports using a horse
- Barrel Racing
- Campdrafting
- Cross Country
- Dressage
- Endurance riding
- English Pleasure
- Equitation
- Eventing
- Equestrian vaulting
- Gymkhana
- Harness racing
- Horse racing
Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007 - Hunter
- Reining
- Rodeo
- Show Jumping
- Steeplechase
- Team penning
- Tent pegging
- Western Pleasure
[edit] Fishing
[edit] Flying disc sports
- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Dodge disc
- Durango boot
- Double disc court
- Flutterguts
- Freestyle
- Fricket, (AKA disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks or crispy wickets)
- Friskee
- Goaltimate
- Guts (sport)
- Hot box
- Ringo
- Ultimate (sport)
[edit] Football family
[edit] Gymnastics
- Artistic gymnastics
- Cheerleading
- Majorette
- Competitive rope jumping
- Juggling
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Sports acrobatics
- Tricking
- Parkour
- Trampolining
- Trapeze
[edit] Handball Family
Handball games often have similarities to racquet or catch games.
[edit] Hockey family
- Bandy
- Broomball
- Field Hockey
- Floorball
- Hurling (The ball can be handled so Hurling is on the periphery of the 'hockey family').
- Ice hockey
- Knotty
- Roller hockey
- Shinty
- Underwater hockey
[edit] Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
[edit] Kite Sports
- Kite buggy
- Kite fighting
- Kite landboarding
- Kitesurfing
- Snow kiting
- Sport kite (Stunt kite)
[edit] Mixed discipline
[edit] Motorboat racing
- Drag boat racing
- F1 Powerboat Racing
- Hydroplane racing
- Jet sprint boat racing
- Offshore powerboat racing
[edit] Motorcycle racing
- Auto Race
- Board track racing
- Cross-country rally
- Endurance racing
- Enduro
- Grand Prix motorcycle racing
- Grass Track
- Hill Climb
- Ice Racing
- Indoor short track
- Motocross
- Motorcycle drag racing
- Motorcycle speedway
- Road racing
- Superbike racing
- Supercross
- Supermoto
- Supersport racing
- Superside
- Track racing
- TT racing
[edit] Orienteering family
[edit] Paddle sports
[edit] Canoeing
[edit] Kayaking
[edit] Rafting
[edit] Rowing
- Gig racing
- Coastal and ocean rowing
- Dragon boat racing
- Double scull
- Quad four
- Single scull
- Straight four
[edit] Parachuting
[edit] Polo
[edit] Racquet (or racket) sports
Sports where a player use a racquet (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects.
[edit] Radiosports
Sports using a radio
[edit] Remote control
[edit] Running
[edit] Sailing
[edit] Skiing
[edit] Sled sports
[edit] Shooting sports
Sports using a firearm:
[edit] Sport Stacking
[edit] Street stunts
[edit] Tag games
- British bulldogs (American Eagle)
- Hana Ichi Monme
- Hide and seek
- Kabaddi
- Kho kho
- Kick the can
- Oztag
- Red rover
- Tag
[edit] Walking
[edit] Weightlifting
[edit] 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.
[edit] Card Games
[edit] Speedcubing
[edit] Strategy Board Games
- Chess
- Checkers
- Chinese Checkers
- Diplomacy
- Draughts
- Go
- Go-Moku
- Jacquet
- Mancala
- Mahjong
- Sogo (Score four)
- Stratego
- Sudoku
- Tic-Tac-Toe
[edit] Competitive Video Games
Games played in tournaments worldwide include:
[edit] Miscellanea
[edit] Air sports
[edit] Animal sports
[edit] Athletics (track and field)
[edit] Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
[edit] Endurance sports
[edit] Miscellaneous sports
[edit] Skating sports
[edit] Snowsports
- Arcathlon
- Ski flying
- Skibob
- Snowball Association
- Boardercross
- Freestyle snowboarding
- Snowshoeing
- Skiboarding
[edit] Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
[edit] Tables sports
- Air hockey
- Backgammon
- Connect Four
- several other Carom billiards variants
- Eight-ball (and Blackball)
- many other Pocket billiards (pool) variants
- many other (generally obsolete) Obstacle variations Cue sports variants
- Draughts (checker)
- Dominoes
- Mahjong (Taipei)
- Reversi (Othello)
- Shogi
- Scrabble (and variants)
- Subbuteo
- Table football
- Table Tennis (Ping Pong)
- Table hockey
- Xiangqi
[edit] Target sports
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
[edit] Team sports
Sports that involve teams.
- Association Football (soccer)
- Australian rules football
- Ball Hockey
- Beach handball
- Beach soccer
- Beach rugby
- Beach volleyball
- Bossaball
- Box/indoor lacrosse
- Bowling
- Basque pelota
- Broomball
- Bunnock
- Camogie
- Cubbies
- Footballtennis
- Futsal
- Gateball
- Handball
- Hornussen
- Horseshoe
- Indoor soccer
- Kickball
- Lacrosse
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Polocrosse
- Roller Hockey (Rink Hockey)
- Royal Shrovetide Football
- Sepak Takraw
- Skittles
- Slamball
- Soccer
- Speedball
- Tennis Polo
- Throwball
- Ultimate football
- Underwater football
- Viperball
- Wallyball
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair tennis
- Wiffle ball
- Six-man football
- Flag football
[edit] Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):

