List of sports
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
Acro sports
Air sports
Archery
Ball-over-net games
Basketball family
Bat-and-ball (safe haven)
- Baseball
- Bat and trap
- British baseball – four posts
- Brännboll – four bases
- Corkball – four bases (no base-running)
- Cricket – two creases
- Danish longball
- Elle
- Kickball
- Kilikiti
- 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
Baton twirling
Board sports
Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
Catch games
Climbing
Cycling
Sports using bicycles or unicycles.
Bicycle
Skibob
Unicycle
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
Striking
Mixed or hybrid
- Baguazhang
- Bando
- Bartitsu
- Bujinkan
- Hapkido
- 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
- Pankration
- Pencak Silat
- Sanshou
- Shidōkan Karate
- Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
- Shoot boxing
- Shootfighting
- Shorinji Kempo
- Systema
- T'ai chi ch'uan
- Vajra-mushti
- Vale tudo
- Vovinam
- Xing Yi Quan
- Zen Bu Kan Kempo
Weapons
- Axe throwing
- Battōjutsu
- Boffer fighting
- Eskrima
- Egyptian stick fencing
- Fencing
- Gatka
- Hojōjutsu
- Iaidō
- Iaijutsu
- Jōdō
- Jogo do pau
- Jūkendō
- Jittejutsu
- Kendo
- Kenjutsu
- Krabi–krabong
- Kung fu
- Kyūdō
- Kyūjutsu
- Modern Arnis
- Naginatajutsu
- Nguni stick-fighting
- Okinawan kobudō
- Shurikenjutsu
- Silambam
- Sōjutsu
- Sword fighting
- Wushu
- Kumdo
- Wing Chun
Skirmish
Cue sports
- Carom billiards
- Novuss (and cued forms of carrom)
- Pocket billiards (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
- Obstacle variations
- Table Sports
Equine sports
Sports using a horse.
- Buzkashi
- Barrel racing
- Campdrafting
- Cirit
- Charreada
- Chilean rodeo
- Cross country
- Cutting
- Dressage
- Endurance riding
- English pleasure
- Equitation
- Eventing
- Equestrian vaulting
- Gymkhana
- Harness racing
- Horse racing
- Horseball
- Hunter
- Hunter-jumpers
- Jousting
- Pato
- Reining
- Rodeo
- Show jumping
- Steeplechase
- Sur-papakh
- Team penning
- Tent pegging
- Western pleasure
Fishing
Flying disc sports
Football
- Ancient games
- Medieval football
- Association football
- Australian football
- English school games
- Eton College
- Harrow football
- Gaelic football
- Gridiron football
- Rugby football
- Hybrid codes
Golf
Gymnastics
Handball family
Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
Ice sports
- Bandy
- Barrel jumping
- Broomball
- Curling
- Ice hockey
- Ringette
- Ice yachting
- Figure skating
- Single skating (men's and ladies' singles)
- Pair skating
- Ice dancing
Kite sports
Mixed discipline
Decathlon, heptathlon, and the pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five component contests that are scored together using one points system.
Orienteering family
Pilota family
Racket (or racquet) sports
Racket sports are games in which players use rackets to hit a ball or other object.
Remote control
Rodeo-originated
Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.
Running
Sailing
Snow sports
Skiing
Sled sports
Shooting sports
Sports using a firearm.
Stacking
Stick and ball games
Hockey
Hurling and shinty
Lacrosse
Polo
Street sports
Tag games
Walking
Wall-and-ball
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.).
Canoeing
Kayaking
Rafting
Rowing
Other paddling sports
Aquatic ball sports
Surface
Underwater
Competitive swimming
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly stroke
- Freestyle swimming
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
Subsurface and recreational
Diving
Weightlifting
Motorized sports
Auto racing
- Autocross (a.k.a. Slalom)
- Autograss
- Banger racing
- Board track racing
- Demolition derby
- Desert racing
- Dirt track racing
- Drag racing
- Drifting
- 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
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
- Superside
- Track racing
- Trial
- TT racing
- Free-style moto
ATV racing
Marker sports
Fantasy sports
Sports seen in movies, literature, video games, etc.
- Quidditch
- Hunger Games (Gladiating)
- Rocket League
Other
Overlapping sports
Sports falling into two or more categories.
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
Other
Speedcubing
Strategy board games
Competitive model sports
Different classification
Potentially other sports are listed here.
Air sports
Athletics (track and field)
Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
Endurance sports
Goal sports
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Skating sports
Snowsports
See #Skiing
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
Table sports
- Air hockey
- Backgammon
- Beer Pong
- Connect Four
- Cue sports
- Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
- Dominoes
- Headis
- Janggi
- Mahjong (a.k.a. Taipei)
- Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
- Shogi
- Scrabble
- Subbuteo
- Table football
- Table hockey
- Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
- 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
- Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
- Calva
- Cornhole
- Croquet
- Cue sports
- Darts
- Golf
- Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)
- Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
- Knife throwing
- Kubb
- Matball
- Mölkky
- Pall mall
- Pétanque
- Pitch and putt
- Ring-goal
- Shooting
- Shuffleboard
- Skittles
- Skee ball
- Tournament of Knights
- Trugo
- Woodball
Team sports
Sports that involve teams.
- 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
- Rowing
- Sepak takraw
- Ultimate (sport)
- Underwater football
- Woodsman
- Volleyball
Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
Fictional sports
Miscellaneous sports
See also
References
- ↑ How many sports are there in the world?] (Archived July 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.). See ISBN 9780760316825.