List of sports

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. Soccer is currently the most watched and played sport in the world.

Physical Sports By Family

Aquatics

Ball sports

• Underwater football
• Underwater rugby
• Water polo

Competitive Swimming

• Backstroke
• Breaststroke
• Butterfly stroke
• Freestyle swimming
• Individual Medley
• Synchronized swimming

Diving

• Diving

Underwater hockey

• Underwater hockey

Underwater Diving

• Free-diving
• Scuba Diving
• Snorkeling

Archery

Main article: Archery

• Clout archery
• Field archery
• Flight archery
• Popinjay (sport)
• Target archery

Auto racing

Main article: Auto racing

4

Bat-and-ball

Main article: Bat-and-ball

4

Boardsports

Main article: Boardsports

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

2

Bowling

Main article: Bowling

• Bocce
• Boules
• Duckpin bowling
• Five-pin bowling
• Lawn bowls
• Pétanque
• Skittles (sport)
• Ten-pin bowling

Catch games

2

Climbing

• Bouldering
• Canyoning
• Mountaineering
• Rope climbing

Cycling

Cycling sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle

Main article: Bicycle

2

Skibob

• Skibobbing

Unicycle

• Mountain unicycling
• Unicycle trials

Combat sports

Main article: Combat sport

Combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.

Grappling

4

Skirmish

• Airsoft
• Laser tag
• Paintball

Weapons

4

Striking

4

Mixed or hybrid

4

Cue sports

Main article: Cue sports

4

Dance

Main article: dance

• Ballet
• Ballroom dance
• Breakdance
• Irish Dance
• Latin dance
• Salsa
• Tap dance
• Hip-hop

Equine Sports

Main article: Equestrianism

Sports using a horse

• Barrel Racing
• Cross Country
• Dressage
• English Pleasure
• Equitation
• Equestrian vaulting
• Harness racing
• Horse racing
• Hunter
• Reining
• Rodeo
• Show Jumping
• Steeplechase
• Western Pleasure

Fishing

Main article: Sport fishing

• Angling
• Big-game fishing
• Casting
• Noodling
• Sport fishing
• Surf fishing
  • Rock fishing

Flying disc sports

Main article: Flying disc games

2

Flying sports

Airplane

• Aerobatics
• Air racing

Ballooning

• Cluster ballooning
• Hopper ballooning

Football family

Main article: Football

2

Gymnastics

• Artistic gymnastics
  • Balance Beam
  • Floor
  • High Bar
  • Parallel Bars
  • Pommel Horse
  • Still Rings
  • Uneven Bars
  • Vault
• Cheerleading
• Competitive rope jumping
• Juggling
• Rhythmic gymnastics
• Sports acrobatics
• Tricking
• Trampolining
• Trapeze
  • Flying trapeze
  • Static trapeze

Handball Family

Handball games often have similarities to racquet or catch games.

2

Hockey Family

Main article: Hockey

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Field Hockey
  • Indoor field hockey
• Floorball
• Hurling (The ball can be handled so Hurling is on the periphery of the 'hockey family').
• Ice Hockey
  • Ringette
• Underwater ice hockey
• Knotty
• Roller hockey
  • Inline hockey
  • Road hockey
  • Roller hockey (Quad)
• Shinty
• Underwater hockey

Hunting

Main article: Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

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

Kite Sports

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

Mixed discipline

• Biathlon
• Decathlon
• Modern pentathlon
• Pentathlon
• Triathlon

Motorboat racing

• Drag boat racing
• F1 Powerboat Racing
• Hydroplane racing
• Jet sprint boat racing
• Offshore powerboat racing

Motorcycle racing

Main article: Motorcycle racing

4

Orienteering family

• Amateur Radio Direction Finding
• Geo caching
• Orienteering

Paddle sports

Canoeing

• Canoeing
• Outrigger canoeing

Kayaking

• Creeking
• Flyak
• Freeboating
• Royaking
• Sea kayaking
• Squirt Boating
• Surf Kayaking
• Whitewater kayaking

Rafting

• Rafting
• White water rafting

Rowing

• Coastal and ocean rowing
  • Surfboat
• Dragon boat racing
• Double scull
• Quad four
• Single scull
• Straight four

Parachuting

Main article: Parachuting

• BASE jumping
• Paragliding
• Parasailing
• Sky diving
• Skysurfing
• Wingsuit flying
• Hang Gliding

Polo

• Bicycle polo
• Elephant polo
• Equine polo
• Yak polo

Racquet (or racket) sports

Sports where a player use a racquet (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects.

3

Radiosports

Sports using a radio

• Amateur Radio Direction Finding
• Radiosport / Contesting
• High Speed Telegraphy

Remote control

• Model Aerobatics
• RC Racing
• Robot combat

Running

• Endurance
  • Cross-country running
  • Half marathon
  • Marathon
  • Ultramarathon
• Sprint
• Hurdles

Sailing

• Ice yachting
• Land sailing
• Land windsurfing
• Sailing
• Windsurfing

Skiing

Main article: Skiing

2

Sled sports

• Sledding
• Bobsleigh
• Luge
• Skeleton
• Toboggan

Shooting sports

Main article: Shooting sports

Sports using a firearm:

• Clay pigeon shooting
• Field target
• Fullbore target rifle

Sport Stacking

• Sport stacking

Street stunts

Main article: Street stunts

• Free running
• Tricking
• Freestyle Football

Tag games

Main article: Tag (game)

• British bulldogs (American Eagle)
• Hana Ichi Monme
• Hide and seek
• Kabaddi
• Kho kho
• Red rover
• Tag

Walking

• Hiking
• Race Walking

Mind Sports by Family

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 article: Card Games

See List of card games

Speedcubing

• Speedcubing

Strategy Board Games

• Backgammon
• Chess
• Checkers
• Chinese Checkers
• Draughts
• Go
• Go-Moku
• Jacquet
• Mancala
• Mahjong (Taipei)
• Sogo (Score four)

By other

Air sports

2

Animal sports

4

Athletics (track and field)

• Cross-Country
• Jumping
  • Triple jump
  • Long jump
  • High jump
  • Pole vault
• Throwing
  • Discus
  • Hammer throw
  • Javelin
  • Atlatl
  • Shot put
• Race walking

Electronic sports

Sports played using electronic devices.

• Combat robot
• Radio-control vehicles
• Geo caching
• Amateur Radio Direction Finding
• Contesting
• High Speed Telegraphy

Endurance sports

2

Miscellaneous

4

Motorsport

Main article: Motorsport

Skating sports

4

Snowsports

• Skiing
  • Alpine skiing
  • Freestyle skiing
  • Speed skiing
  • telemark skiing
  • Nordic skiing
  • Arcathlon
  • Biathlon
  • Cross country skiing
  • Nordic combined
  • Ski flying
  • Ski jumping
  • Telemark skiing
  • Ski touring
  • Skijoring
  • Skibob
• Snowball Association
• Snowboarding
  • Boardercross
  • Freestyle snowboarding
• Snowkiting
• Snowshoeing

Strength sports

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

• Arm Wrestling
• Thumb wrestling
• Bodybuilding
• Powerlifting
• Toe wrestling
• Tug-o-war
• Zourkhaneh
• Weightlifting

Tables sports

• Air hockey
• Backgammon
• Card games
• Chess
• Chinese Checkers
• Connect Four
• Cue sports
  • Carom billiards
    • Three-cushion
    • Five-pins
    • Balkline and straight rail
    • Cushion caroms
    • Four-ball (yotsudama)
    • Artistic billiards
    • several other variants
  • Pocket billiards (pool)
    • Eight-ball (and Blackball)
    • 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
    • many other variants
  • Snooker
    • Snooker plus
  • Hybrid carom–pocket games:
    • English billiards
    • Bottle pool
    • Cowboy
  • Obstacle variations
    • Bagatelle
    • Bar billiards
    • Bumper pool
    • many other (generally obsolete) variants
• Draughts (checker)
• Dominoes
• Go
• Go-Moku
• Jacquet
• Mancala
• Mahjong (Taipei)
• Reversi (Othello)
• Shogi
• Scrabble (and variants)
• Speedcubing
• Stratego
• Table football
• Table Tennis (Ping Pong)
• Table hockey
• Xiangqi

Target sports

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

4

Team sports

Sports that involve teams.

4

Water sports

Main article: List of water sports

Windsports

Sport which uses wind:

2

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