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
  • Competitive dancing
  • Dancesport
  • Freerunning
  • Gymnastics
  • High kick
  • Parkour
  • Stunt
  • Trampolining

Air sports
Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville.
  • Aerobatics
  • Air racing
    • Cluster ballooning
    • Hopper ballooning
Wingsuit flying
  • Gliding
  • Hang gliding
    • Powered hang glider
  • Human powered aircraft
  • Model aircraft
  • Parachuting
  • Paragliding
    • Powered paragliding
  • Paramotoring
  • Ultralight aviation

Archery
Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.
  • Field archery
  • Flight archery
  • Gungdo
  • Indoor archery
  • Kyūdō
  • Popinjay
  • Target archery

Ball-over-net games
An international match of volleyball.

Basketball family
Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  • Basketball
    • 3x3 basketball
    • Beach basketball
    • Deaf basketball
    • 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
  • British baseball – four posts
  • 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
    • Tape ball cricket
    • Tennis ball cricket
    • Test cricket
    • Trobriand cricket
    • Twenty20
    • Twenty20 International
    • Windball cricket
  • 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
  • Baton twirling

Board sports
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

Catching games

Climbing
Canyoning
  • Abseiling
  • Aid climbing
  • Ice climbing
  • Mixed climbing
  • Mountaineering
  • Rock climbing
    • Bouldering
    • Deep-water soloing
    • Sport climbing
    • Traditional climbing
  • Other
    • Canyoning (Canyoneering)
    • Coasteering
    • Hiking
    • Rope climbing
    • Pole climbing

Cycling
A track cycling Race
Main article: Cycling

Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle
Main article: Bicycle
  • Artistic cycling
  • BMX
  • Cyclo-cross
  • Cross-country mountain biking
  • Cycle polo
  • Cycle speedway
  • Downhill mountain biking
  • Dirt jumping
  • Freestyle BMX
  • Hardcourt Bike Polo
  • Road bicycle racing
  • Track cycling
  • Underwater cycling

Skibob
  • Skibobbing

Unicycle
  • Mountain unicycling
  • Street unicycling
  • Unicycling
  • Unicycle basketball
  • Unicycle Football
  • Unicycle hockey
  • Unicycle trials

Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts
Main articles: Combat sport 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
  • Sambo (martial art)
  • Sumo
  • Wrestling
    • Amateur wrestling
      • Greco-Roman wrestling
      • Freestyle wrestling
    • Folk wrestling
      • Boli Khela
      • Collar-and-elbow
      • Collegiate wrestling
      • Cornish wrestling
      • Dumog
      • Glima
      • Gouren
      • Kurash
      • Lancashire wrestling
        • Catch wrestling
      • Malla-yuddha
      • Mongolian wrestling
      • Pehlwani
      • Professional wrestling
      • Schwingen
      • Shuai jiao
      • Ssireum
      • Varzesh-e Pahlavani
      • Yağlı Güreş
    • Greek wrestling

Striking
A kick in kickboxing.
  • Bajiquan
  • Bokator
  • Boxing
  • Capoeira
  • Chess Boxing
  • Choi Kwang-Do
  • Fujian White Crane
  • Karate
  • Kenpō
  • Kickboxing
  • Lethwei
  • Muay Thai
  • Pradal serey
  • Sanshou
  • Savate
  • Shaolin Kung Fu
  • Shin-kicking
  • Sikaran
  • Silat
  • Subak
  • Taekkyeon
  • Taekwondo
  • Taidō
  • Tang Soo Do
  • Vovinam
  • Wing Chun

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
  • Pankration
  • Pencak Silat
  • Sanshou
  • 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.
  • Axe throwing
  • Battōjutsu
  • Boffer fighting
  • Canne de combat
  • Cardboard Tube Fighting
  • Eskrima
  • Egyptian stick fencing
  • Fencing
  • Gatka
  • Hojōjutsu
  • Iaidō
  • Iaijutsu
  • Jōdō
  • Jogo do pau
  • Jūkendō
  • Jittejutsu
  • Kendo
  • Kenjutsu
  • Krabi–krabong
  • Kung fu
  • Kyūdō
  • Kyūjutsu
  • Medieval MMA
  • Modern Arnis
  • Naginatajutsu
  • Nguni stick-fighting
  • Okinawan kobudō
  • Shurikenjutsu
  • Silambam
  • Sōjutsu
  • Sword fighting
  • Wushu
  • Kumdo
  • Wing Chun

Cue sports
Pool balls
Snooker.
  • Carom billiards
    • Three-cushion
    • Five-pins
    • Balkline and straight rail
    • Cushion caroms
    • Four-ball (yotsudama)
    • Artistic 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
    • 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

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
  • Jousting
  • Mounted games
  • Pato
  • Pleasure driving
  • Reining
  • Rodeo
  • Show hunter (British)
  • Show jumping
  • Steeplechase
  • Sur-papakh
  • Team penning
  • Tent pegging
  • Western pleasure


Fishing
Main article: 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
  • Guts
    • Flutterguts
  • Hot box
  • Ultimate

Football
Main article: 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
    • 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
  • 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
    • Canadian 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
      • Snow rugby
      • Tag rugby
      • Touch rugby
      • Wheelchair rugby
  • Hybrid codes
    • Austus
    • Eton wall game
    • International rules football
    • Samoa rules
    • Speedball
    • Universal football
    • Volata

Golf
Main article: 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
  • Wiffle golf

Gymnastics
Trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett at 2008 Canadian National Championships
Main article: Gymnastics

Handball family
A 7-meter throw in Handball.
Main article: Handball
  • Beach handball
  • Czech handball
  • Field handball
  • Goalball
  • Tchoukball
  • Torball
  • Water polo

Hunting
Main article: Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

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

Ice sports

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.

Orienteering family
  • Geocaching
  • Orienteering
  • Rogaining
  • Letterboxing
  • 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
  • Palla
  • Patball
  • Valencian pilota

Parkour/Freerunnning

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
  • OCR
  • Parkour
  • Trampolining

Racket (or racquet) sports

Racket sports are games in which players use rackets to hit a ball or other object. However, this list is broader and includes sport disciplines where players use not rackets but paddles (hand-held frame with flat boards or planks instead of strings).

Carolina Marín, a badminton player
David Palmer and Tom Richards, two squash players
Uładzimir Samsonaŭ, a table tennis player
Justine Henin, a tennis player
  • 360Ball
  • Badminton
  • Ball badminton
  • Basque pelota
    • Frontenis
    • Xare
  • Beach tennis
  • Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
  • Eclipse Ball
  • Matkot
  • Miniten
  • Padel
  • Paleta Frontón
  • Pelota mixteca
  • Pickleball
  • Platform tennis
  • Qianball
  • Racketlon
  • Racquetball
  • Racquets
  • Real tennis
  • Soft tennis
  • Speed-ball
  • Squash
    • Hardball squash
  • Squash tennis
  • Stické
  • Table tennis
  • Tennis
  • Tennis polo

Remote control
  • Model aerobatics
  • RC racing
  • Robot combat
  • 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
    • Calf Roping
    • Team Roping
    • Steer Roping
  • Steer Wrestling
  • Goat Tying

Running
200 meters sprint
Main article: Running

Sailing
Windsurfing
Main article: Sailing

Snow sports

Skiing

Sled sports
United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form.

Shooting sports
Main article: Shooting sports

Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.).

Individual
  • Clay pigeon shooting
    • Skeet shooting
    • Trap shooting
    • Sporting clays
  • Bullseye shooting
    • Rifle
      • ISSF rifle events
      • Fullbore target rifle
      • High power rifle
      • Benchrest shooting
      • Paralympic rifle events
    • Handgun
      • ISSF pistol events
      • Paralympic pistol events
  • 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 biathon
  • Target sprint
  • Pistol skiing
  • Orienteering shooting
  • Military patrol
  • Underwater target shooting

Skirmish

Stacking
  • Card 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
      • Moscow broomball
    • Field hockey
      • Indoor field hockey
    • Floorball
    • Ice hockey
      • Pond hockey
      • Power hockey
      • Sledge hockey
      • Underwater ice hockey
    • Inline sledge hockey
    • Ringette
    • Rinkball
    • Roller hockey
    • Rossall Hockey
    • Spongee
    • Street hockey
    • Underwater 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

Polo
  • Polo
    A polo player.
    • Bicycle polo
    • Canoe polo
    • Cowboy polo
    • Elephant polo
    • Hobby horse polo
    • Segway polo
    • Yak polo

Street sports
  • Free running
  • Freestyle footbag
  • Freestyle football
  • Powerbocking
  • Parkour
  • Scootering
  • Street workout

Tag games
  • Bo-taoshi
  • British bulldogs (American Eagle)
  • Capture the flag
  • Hana Ichi Monme
  • Hide and seek
  • Jugger
  • Kabaddi
  • Kho kho
  • Kick the can
  • Marco Polo
  • Oztag
  • Red rover
  • Tag

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 & paddle sports

These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).

Canoeing

Kayaking

Rafting
Rafting
  • Rafting
  • White water rafting

Rowing
  • Rowing (sport)
  • Gig racing
  • Coastal and ocean rowing
    • Surfboat
  • Single scull

Other paddling sports
Greece – Hungary water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples, Italy)

Aquatic ball sports
Surface
Michael Phelps swimming breaststroke at the 2008 Missouri Grand Prix.
  • Waboba


Underwater
  • Underwater football
  • Underwater rugby
  • Underwater 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.
Main articles: Olympic weightlifting and Powerlifting

Motorized sports

Auto racing
The start of a Formula One race in 2008
Main article: 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
  • Drag boat racing
  • F1 powerboat racing
  • Hydroplane racing
  • Jet sprint boat racing
  • Offshore powerboat racing
  • Personal water craft

Motorcycle racing
MotoGP racing
Main article: 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
ATV racing on a motocross track
  • All-terrain vehicle competition

Marker sports

Fantasy sports

Sports seen in movies, literature, etc.

  • Quidditch
  • Hunger Games (Gladiating)
  • Whack-bat (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
  • Blitzball (Final Fantasy)

Other
  • Redneck Games
  • Stihl Timbersports Series
  • Ultimate Tazer Ball
  • Woodsman

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
Main articles: Card game and List of card games

Other

E-sports

Speedcubing
  • Speedcubing

Strategy board games
A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China
Main article: Board Games

Competitive model sports
  • 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
  • Contesting
  • Radio-control vehicles
  • Video gaming

Endurance sports

Goal sports
Main article: Goal (sport)

Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.

Skating sports

Snowsports
A snowboarder and a skier
A ski jumper using the V-style
Freestyle skiing

See #Skiing

Strength sports

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

  • Arm wrestling
Arm wrestling

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)
  • 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
  • Candlepin bowling
  • 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.

Match of lacrosse
Jack and Jill competition, Lumberjack World Championships, Hayward, Wisconsin, 2007.

Windsports

Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):

  • Kite flying
  • Parachuting
  • Hot air balloon racing

Fictional sports
  • 43-Man Squamish
  • Calvinball
  • Quidditch (Harry Potter)
  • Guyball

Miscellaneous sports
Logrolling
  • Bed racing
  • Cheese rolling
  • Chess boxing
  • Competitive eating
  • Egg and spoon race
  • Extreme ironing
  • Ferret legging
  • Fierljeppen
  • Footbag (hacky sack)
  • Haggis hurling
  • Lumberjack sports
    • Aizkolaritza
    • Axe throwing
    • Logrolling
    • Wood chopping
    • Wood splitting
  • Marching band
  • Patball
  • Ring-goal
  • Ringette
  • Sack race
  • Soap shoes
  • Tennikoit
  • Tetherball
  • Three-legged race
  • Wallball
  • Wife-carrying
  • Yoyoing
  • Object spinning
    • Plate spinning
    • Padiddling

See also
  • Flying disc games
  • Individual sport
  • List of ball games
  • List of types of games
  • Team sport

References
  1. How many sports are there in the world?] ("Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 23, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)). See ISBN 9780760316825.
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