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Baseball — a bat and ball game in which the aim is to hit the ball and
score runs by running around four bases.
Basketball — players attempt to shoot the ball through the hoop on the
opponent’s court, moving the ball by throwing and dribbling.
Benchpress — the barbell bench press is one of three lifts in the sport
of powerlifting. Participants lie on their back holding the weight on both hands,
push it upwards, and then lower the weight again to the chest level.
Biathle — consist of swimming and running as part of a single race. It is
usually over a shorter distance than the similar Aquathlon.
Bowling — a general term of a large range of sports in which the player
rolls a ball to knock down objects. The most common variation is Tenpin
Bowling.
C Sports
Canoeing — paddle sport in which the rider kneels or sits facing forward in
a canoe.
Capture The Flag — the aim is to get the other team’s flag which is
located their base.
Car Ice Racing — cars race across a strip of frozen water.
Carom Billiards — A cue sport played on a felt covered table with cues and
billiard balls, in which the object is to score points by caroming your cue ball off
both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) with a single shot. There is a
large range of disciplines including Artistic Billiards, Three-Cushion
Billiards, Five-Pin Billiards, Balkline, Straight Rail, Cushion Caroms, Four-
Ball.
Casting — fishing without fish, the objective is to test the accuracy and
distance of a cast.
Chase Tag — like the playground game of tag, a chaser has 20 seconds to
tag an evader as they race round an obstacle course.
Clay Pigeon Shooting — shooters try to shoot flying targets like the clay
pigeons or clay targets.
Club Throw — a track and field disabled sports event, the objective is to
throw a wooden club as far as possible.
Corkball — a sport derived from baseball with a smaller ball which can be
played in a much smaller field (often referred as mini-baseball).
Curling — players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards the target area.
Cycle Ball — the game play is similar to that of association football, but is
played with each player riding a bicycle.
D Sports
Dandi Biyo — a game from Nepal played with two sticks; the long stick is
used to strike the shorter one in the air.
Danish Longball — a bat and ball game developed in Denmark, like a
hybrid of baseball and cricket.
Decathlon — track and field event comprising 10 events held over two
days.
Digor — a sport from Bhutan in which a pair of spherical flat stones are
hurled at two targets fixed in the ground 20 meters apart.
Disc Golf — golf using a frisbee disc, the objective is to traverse a course
from start to end with the fewest number of throws.
Disc Sports — various sports or games played using flying discs (frisbees).
Discus — track and field event where athletes attempt to throw a heavy
disc object far as they can.
Diving — an aquatic sport where athletes dive into water from a raised
launch pad, while performing acrobatic movements.
Dodgeball — two teams throw balls at each other while trying to avoid the
balls.
Dog Agility — dogs have to navigate through a course that has various
types of obstacles under the direction of a handler. (not a sport).
Dog Sports — general term for sporting activities that involve dogs (which
are mostly not even sports).
Downhill Mountain Biking — biking sport which is held on steep and rough
terrain.
Drag boat racing — drag racing which is held on water with boats.
Dragon Boat Racing — a paddling sport using a long boat with many
paddlers.
Drifting — car drivers take corners at speed and the back wheels slide out,
and are judged according to the speed, angle, showmanship and line taken
through a corner.
F Sports
Fast Pitch Softball — the competitive form of softball, where the pitcher's
arm rotates 360 degrees around the shoulder until the ball is released from the
hand.
Fencing — competitors face each other and attempt to touch each other
with the tip of a thin sword.
Field Hockey — played outdoors on turf, players hit a hard round ball
through goals using sticks with curved ends.
Five-pin bowling — a bowling variant from Canada with smaller balls and
only 5 pins.
Flight Archery — a form of archery in which the aim is to shoot the arrow
as far as possible.
Footbag — group of sports that is named after the ball ("Footbag") that is
used to play the sport. Sports include Freestyle and Footbag Net.
Footbag Net — players have to kick a footbag over a 5ft high net.
Footgolf — a mix of golf and football, where players use football skills to
kick a ball into holes.
Footvolley — like beach volleyball though you can only use your feet.
Frescoball (see Matkot).
Fullbore target rifle — using rifles, shooters hit the paper targets in prone
position.
G Sports
Gaelic Football —a type of football from Ireland with a goal similar to that
used in rugby but having a net attached below the crossbar. The object is to kick
or punch the round ball into the net (three points) or over the crossbar (one
point).
Gateball — a team sport played with a wooden mallet and wooden balls.
Each player attempts to strike their allocated ball through all the gates and
finally strike the goal pole.
Gilli-Danda — a South Asian game played with two sticks; the long stick is
used to strike the shorter one in the air.
Goalball — a Paralympic sport for blind athletes using a ball with bells.
Golf — players use a club to hit balls into a series of holes on a course,
using the fewest number of strokes.
H Sports
Hang Gliding — a type of air sport in which the rider flies a non-motorized
aircraft which is called a hang glider.
Hardball Squash — like the indoor court sport of squash, but with a much
harder ball.
Hare Coursing — hares are chased by greyhounds using their sight rather
than scent. (not a sport).
Headis — combining table tennis and soccer, players use their heads to hit
a soccer ball across the table tennis table and net.
High Diving — athletes dive into water from considerably large heights.
High Jump — an Olympic Track and Field event in which the participants
attempt to jump over the highest bar.
High Power Rifle — shooting competition using rifles such as the service
rifle.
Hitball — an indoor team sport from Italy in which players strike the
volleyball sized ball into the opponent’s goal post only using the upper limbs.
Hockey — a large range of indoor and outdoor team sports which involves
hitting a ball into a net. See Ice Hockey and Field Hockey.
Horizontal Bar — artistic gymnastics event also known as high bar, where
athletes perform aerial stunts on a horizontal bar.
Horse Polo — the traditional polo sport. Polo is also played on other
animals such as Elephants and Yaks.
Horse Pulling — one or two horses harnessed to a weighted sled pull for
the greatest distance.
Hovercraft Racing — racing events usually done on tracks, just like auto
racing, but part of the track is water and there is some part which is grass.
Hurdles (Track and Field) — a track and field sport which involves running
and jumping over obstacles at speed.
Hurling — a Gaelic outdoor team sport where players use a wooden stick
to hit a ball between the opposing team's goalposts.
I Sports
Ice Cross Downhill — an extreme winter racing sport which involves direct
racing of multiple skaters on a downhill course.
Ice Dancing — one of the events in Figure Skating, which has its roots in
ballroom dancing.
Ice Hockey — a contact sport which is played on ice while wearing skates
and using a stick to hit a puck into a goal.
Ice Skating — a range of sports that involve traveling on ice using metal
blades attached to shoes, such as ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating.
Ice Stock Sport — a winter sport which is similar to curling. Also called
Bavarian Curling.
Ice Yachting — sail boats called ice yachts are used to race on frozen
lakes and rivers.
Indoor Cricket — a modified version of cricket played indoor with nets for
walls.
Indoor Field Hockey — indoor team sport that was derived from field
hockey.
Indoor Netball — a variation of netball, played indoors with netting all
around the court.
Inline Speed Skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks.
Jet Ski Racing — a water sport similar to powerboat racing, in which riders
use jet skis to compete.
Jugger — a brutal sport inspired by the movie “The Salute of the Jugger”,
the objective is for the team to get to the other team’s foam dog skull.
K Sports
Kaisa — a cue sport (type carom billiards) mainly played in Finland. (also
known as Karoliina).
Kelly Pool — type of pocket billiard game played on a standard pool table,
with fifteen numbered markers which player select from.
Kemari — Japanese traditional sport with the aim to keep one ball in the
air.
Kho Kho — team that takes lesser time to tag all the opponent players
wins the game, from India.
Kickball — a type of baseball where the players kick the ball, instead of
striking it with a bat.
Kite Boarding — a group of sports which use a kite for power and a board
for support, such as Kitesurfing, Kite Landboarding, Snowkiting.
Kitesurfing — a board and kite are used on the water utilizing different
styles consisting of freeride, speed, down winders and racing.
Krolf — a mix of croquet and golf, players use a mallet to hit the ball into
a hole.
Kronum — a team sport that combines aspects of football, handball,
basketball, and rugby into a single sport.
Kubb — a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks
('kubbs') by throwing wooden batons at them.
Kurash — folk wrestling style from Central Asia in which wrestlers use
towels to hold their opponents, and their goal is to throw their opponents off the
feet.
L Sports
Lagori — from Southern India, this game involves a ball and a pile of flat
stones. A member of one team throws a soft ball at a pile of stones to knock
them over, then try to restore the pile of stones while the opposing team throws
the ball at them (also known as Lingocha).
Laser Run — four legs of laser pistol shooting followed by an 800m run.
Lawn Bowls — the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close
to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty".
Legends Car Racing — a racing sport using identical spec vehicles, with
bodyshells made of 5/8-scale replicas of American automobiles from the 1930s
and 1940s and powered by a Yamaha motorcycle engines.
Lelo Burti — a Georgian folk sport, a full contact ball game very similar to
rugby.
Long Drive — golf competition in which players attempt to hit the ball the
longest distance.
Long Jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to
jump the longest into a sand pit. See also the similar Triple Jump.
Long Track Motorcycle Speedway — a version of motorcycle speedway,
but taking place on longer tracks at much higher speeds.
M Sports
Matkot — a beach paddle sport from Israel which is very similar to beach
tennis. Also called Frescobol.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) — a full contact individual combat sport which
includes aspects of several other combat sports and martial arts.
Mölkky — players use a wooden pin (also called "mölkky") to try to knock
over wooden pins.
Motorsports — includes a wide range of sports, each linked with its use of
a motor to propel a driver, and all have an element of thrill and danger for the
driver and spectator.
Mountain Biking — held on steep and rough terrain, involving jumps, rock
gardens, and other obstacles.
Muay Thai — a full contact fighting sport in which fighters try to defeat
their opponents by using different techniques that make use of fists, elbows,
knees, and shins.
N Sports
O Sports
Ocean Rowing — involves rowing races across entire seas and oceans.
Paddleball (1 wall) — a small rubber ball is hit against a single wall with a
solid paddle.
Padel — a mix of tennis and squash, played on a much smaller court with
walls and a solid paddle racket.
Patball — school yard game played with hands or head for hitting the ball
against a wall.
Pelota Mixteca — an ancient game similar to tennis without a net, the ball
is hit with decorated gloves.
Peteca — played by hitting the shuttlecock with your hand over a high
net.
Pitch and Putt — like golf, but on shorter holes and only a putter and a
wedge are allowed.
Pocket Billiards — also known as Pool, it is the name for a range of Cue
Sports played on a table with six pockets along the rails, into which the main
aim is to hit balls into the pockets. There are hundreds of pool games - popular
versions include Eight-Ball and Nine-Ball, as well as Ten-Ball, Straight
Pool, One-Pocket and Bank Pool.
Poker — a card game that combines gambling, strategy, and skill. The
winner of each hand is determined according to the combinations of players'
cards.
Popinjay — a shooting sport with either bows or rifles, in which the bird-
like target is suspended from a pole.
Powerlifting — tests of strength on three lifts: dead lift, bench press and
squat.
Pushball — a team sport played with a large ball in which the objective is
to push the ball through the opponent’s goal posts.
Q Sports
Qianball — a racket and ball sport developed in China which can be best
described as a mix of aspects from tennis and squash.
Quidditch — the sport invented for the Harry Potter books has been
adapted for the real world. See Muggle Quidditch.
R Sports
Real Tennis — the sport from which the modern lawn tennis was derived.
It is played in an indoor court of asymmetric dimensions, using rules and scoring
similar to those of modern tennis.
Relay Running — a track and field running race in which athletes compete
as a team, passing a baton from one runner to the next.
Ringette — a very similar sport to ice hockey, though played with a blue
rubber ring and a straight stick.
Rinkball — very similar to Rink Bandy, though played with ice hockey
sticks instead of bandy sticks which are more like those used in field hockey.
Ritinis — a team sport from Lithuania, played on a football field with goal
posts with a puck thrown by bat with a handle and curved elongated end.
Road Bicycle Racing — cycle races held on paved roads, usually over
several hours or days.
Road Skating — athletes use either inline or roller skates and ride on road
courses.
Roll Ball — like handball on roller skates, players must bounce the ball
while moving and score goals by shooting the ball into the opposing team's goal.
Roller Derby — two teams compete while skating in the same direction
around a track.
Roller Skiing — races are conducted on tarmac road courses with athletes
wearing snow skis with wheels attached.
Roller Soccer — indoor sport, playing soccer while wearing roller skates.
Rope Climbing — competitors climb up a rope using their hands.
Rounders — played between two teams with a bat and ball, like baseball.
Rugby Fives — an indoor court game played with gloves, hitting the ball
against the wall.
Rugby League Nines — like Rugby League, but with nine players.
Rugby Sevens — like Rugby Union except with fewer players and over
shorter time period.
Rugby Union — played on a grass field by two opposing teams with two H-
shaped goalposts at opposite ends.
Sailing — a sport that involves moving a boat by using the power of the
wind.
Sambo — a martial art developed for Russia's military and police force in
the 1930s. The term translates as "self-defense without weapons".
Scurry Driving — ponies pull a carriage with two riders around a track.
Sepak Takraw — an Asian sport like volleyball but using the feet to kick
the ball over the net.
Shinty — Scottish team sport resembling field hockey, played with long
curved sticks and a small ball which is hit through tall goalposts. Derived from
the Irish game of Hurling.
Shot put — the track and field event where the participants throw a heavy
metal ball for maximum distance.
Showdown — a game for blind and visually impaired people similar to air
hockey.
Shuffleboard — players use cues to push and slide weighted discs along a
long court into a scoring area.
Sikaran — a form of kick boxing from the Philippines, which utilizes only
the feet, the hands are only used for blocking.
Sipa — a sport from the Philippines in which the aim is to kick the ball to
the other side of the net on to the opponent’s side without it touching the
ground.
Sitting Volleyball — a version of volleyball for disabled athletes played
while sitting (also known as paralympic volleyball).
Ski Flying — winter sport similar to ski jumping in which the skier will
come down and take off from a ramp and fly the farthest possible distance.
Ski Jumping — a form of skiing in which an athlete will take off a ramp
and jump as high and far as possible.
Ski Orienteering — the objective for athletes is to navigate from the start
to the finish through checkpoints while riding on skis.
Skiboarding — like snow skiing, but with shorter and wider skis.
Skydiving — see Parachuting.
Snow Golf — like regular golf, however the golf course is covered with
snow and ice, rather than grass.
Snow Rugby — rugby union matches played on fields covered with snow.
Speed Pool — a cue sport, a Pocket Billiards game where the balls must
be pocketed in as little time as possible.
Speed Skating (Long Track) — ice skaters race head to head on a 400m
oval track for a set distance, between 500 and 10,000 m.
Sport Kite — using a stunt kite to fly the kite in several patterns in tune
with a background music.
Sports Car Racing — a type of auto racing, in which sports cars are used.
Sprint (Athletics) — track and field running events over short distances,
such as 100m, 200m, 400m.
Sprint Car Racing — a racing sport which involves direct racing of high
powered small cars.
Squash Tennis — derived from both squash and lawn tennis, played on a
squash court with tennis rackets and balls.
Squat — a powerlifting event in which participants attempt to perform a
squat with the maximum weight on their shoulders.
Stické Tennis — an indoor racquet and ball based sport derived from lawn
tennis in the late 19th century, using a smaller court surrounded by 4 walls.
Street Hockey — a team sport that was derived from Ice Hockey, though
it is played on an asphalt or cement surface instead of ice, and players wear
inline skates or shoes.
Sweep Rowing — each rower has just one oar which is maneuvered with
both hands to propel the boat.
Table Tennis (also called Ping Pong) — a racket sport played with small
paddles and a lightweight ball on a rectangular table with a net in the middle.
Target Golf — players hit a golf ball at a large net, scoring points based on
where the ball lands.
Telemark Skiing — The bindings for telemark skiing holds the boot by the
toes, unlike Alpine Skiing which is fixed-heel. Also known as free hill skiing and
telemarking.
Tennis — a court sport where players use a stringed racket to hit a ball to
each other over a net.
Tent Pegging — the objective for a horse rider is to pierce, pick-up and
carry a target, with a lance or a sword, as they gallop towards the target.
Torball — a team sport for the visually impaired with an inflated ball with
bells inside. The aim is to throw the ball through the opponent´s goal line.
Touch Rugby — a team sport derived from Rugby Football, in which the
tackling is replaced with just a touch.
Touring Car Racing — a type of auto track racing, which uses heavily
modified road-going cars.
Triple jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to
hop, skip and jump the longest distance. Also called the hop, skip and jump for
obvious reasons. Similar to the long jump.
U Sports
Ulama — a traditional ball sport from Mexico, players keep the ball
inbounds by hitting it with their hips or forearms.
Ultimate — played with a disc (frisbee), with points scored by passing the
disc to a teammate in the opposing end zone.
Ultralight Aviation — events with lightweight aircraft which have 1 or 2
seat fixed-wings.
Underwater Hockey — two teams of six push a puck along the bottom of a
swimming pool. (also known as 'Octopush' or Water Hockey).
Urban Golf — golf played anywhere that there's free space and not too
many people about.
V Sports
Varpa — an old outdoor game dating back to the Viking Age. It is similar
to boules but played with a flat and heavy thrower known as "varpa" instead of
balls, once made of shaped stones but nowadays aluminium is more popular.
Vault — an artistic gymnastics event for men and women, in which the
athlete leaps over a vault or pommel horse, using the hands for pushing off.
Volleyball — a game for two teams of six players, in which a large ball is
hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball
reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court. See also Beach Volleyball.
Similar sports and variations include Throwball, Newcomb Ball.
Water Polo — a team sport played in swimming pools, the aim is to pass
the ball over the water and into the goal net.
Water Skiing — riders are pulled along behind a boat skimming atop the
water wearing one or two skis.
Wheelchair Tennis — a version of lawn tennis for those who have lower
body disabilities.
Wingsuit Flying — a type of skydiving, where a person will fly in the air
using a special jumpsuit called the wingsuit.
X Sports
Xare — a racket sport, a form of Basque pelota, where players face each
other across a net which is strung across the middle of an indoor court.
Y Sports
Z Sports
Zorb Football — a team sport that was derived from association football
(soccer) in which players are encased in an inflated bubble called Zorb.
Zui Quan — The words mean Drunken Fist in Chinese. Also known
as Drunken Boxing or Drunkard's Boxing.
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