List of sports
The following is a list of sports/games, 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.
According to the World Sports Encyclopedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games.[1]
Contents
- 1 Physical sports
- 1.1 Air sports
- 1.2 Archery
- 1.3 Ball-over-net games
- 1.4 Basketball family
- 1.5 Bat-and-ball (safe haven)
- 1.6 Baton twirling
- 1.7 Board sports
- 1.8 Catch games
- 1.9 Climbing
- 1.10 Cycling
- 1.11 Combat sports: Wrestling and martial arts
- 1.12 Cue sports
- 1.13 Dance
- 1.14 Equine sports
- 1.15 Fishing
- 1.16 Flying disc sports
- 1.17 Football family
- 1.18 Golf
- 1.19 Gymnastics
- 1.20 Handball family
- 1.21 Hunting
- 1.22 Ice sports
- 1.23 Kite sports
- 1.24 Mixed discipline
- 1.25 Orienteering family
- 1.26 Pilota family
- 1.27 Racquet (or racket) sports
- 1.28 Remote control
- 1.29 Running
- 1.30 Sailing
- 1.31 Snow sports
- 1.32 Shooting sports
- 1.33 Stacking
- 1.34 Stick and ball games
- 1.35 Street sports
- 1.36 Tag games
- 1.37 Walking
- 1.38 Wall-and-ball
- 1.39 Aquatic & paddle sports
- 1.40 Weightlifting
- 1.41 Motorized sports
- 1.42 Marker sports
- 2 Mind sports
- 3 Different classification
- 4 Miscellaneous sports
- 5 See also
- 6 References
Physical sports
Air sports
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- Gliding
- Hang gliding
- Human powered aircraft
- Model aircraft
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Paramotoring
- Ultralight aviation
Archery
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Ball-over-net games
- Badminton
- Ball badminton
- Biribol
- Bossaball
- Fistball
- Footbag net
- Football tennis
- Footvolley
- Hooverball
- Peteca
- Pickleball
- Platform tennis
- Sepak takraw
- Sipa
- Tennis
- Throwball
- Volleyball
- Wallyball
Basketball family
Bat-and-ball (safe haven)
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- Baseball
- Bat and trap
- British baseball - four posts
- Brännboll - four bases
- Corkball - four bases (no base-running)
- Cricket - two creases
- Danish longball
- 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
- Bucketball
Baton twirling
Board sports
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Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
Catch games
- Curving
- Dodgeball
- Ga-ga
- Keep away
- Kin-Ball
- Newcomb ball
- Quidditch
- Rundown (aka Pickle)
- Yukigassen
Climbing
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- Rock climbing
- Aid climbing
- Ice climbing
- Mixed climbing
- Abseiling
- Mountaineering
- Other
- Canyoning (Canyoneering)
- Hiking
- Rope climbing
- Pole climbing
- Coasteering
Cycling
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Sports using bicycles or unicycles.
Bicycle
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- 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
Unicycle
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Combat sports: Wrestling and martial arts
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Combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Grappling
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Striking
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- Choi Kwang-Do
- Cockfighting
- Boxing
- Bokator
- Capoeira
- Fujian White Crane
- Karate
- Kenpō
- Kickboxing
- Lethwei
- Muay Thai
- Pradal serey
- San shou
- Savate
- Shaolin kung fu
- Sikaran
- Silat
- Subak
- Taekkyeon
- Taekwondo
- Taido
- Tang Soo Do
- Wing Chun
- Zui quan
Mixed or hybrid
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- Amateur pankration
- Baguazhang
- Bando
- Bartitsu
- Bujinkan
- Hapkido
- Hwa Rang Do
- Jeet Kune Do
- Kajukenbo
- Kalarippayattu
- Krav Maga
- Kuk Sool Won
- MCMAP
- 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
- Xingyiquan
Weapons
- Axe throwing
- Battōjutsu
- Boffer fighting
- Eskrima
- Egyptian stick fencing
- Fencing
- Gatka
- Hojōjutsu
- Iaidō
- Iaijutsu
- Jōdō
- Jogo do pau
- Jūkendō
- Juttejutsu
- Kendo
- Kenjutsu
- Kung fu
- Kyūdō
- Kyūjutsu
- Modern Arnis
- Naginatajutsu
- Nguni stick-fighting
- Okinawan kobudō
- Shurikenjutsu
- Silambam
- Sōjutsu
- Sword fighting
- Wushu
- Kumdo
- Wing Chun
Skirmish
Cue sports
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- 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
Dance
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
- Polo
- Pato
- Reining
- Rodeo
- Show jumping
- Steeplechase
- Team penning
- Tent pegging
- Western pleasure
- Polocrosse
Fishing
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- Angling
- Big-game fishing
- Casting
- Noodling
- Spearfishing
- Sport fishing
- Surf fishing
- Rock fishing
- Fly fishing
- Ice fishing
Flying disc sports
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- Beach ultimate
- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Disc golf (urban)
- Dodge disc
- Double disc court
- Flutterguts
- Freestyle
- Freestyle competition
- Fricket (aka disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks and crispy wickets)
- Goaltimate
- Guts
- Hot box
- Ringo
Football family
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- Ancient games
- Medieval football
- Association football
- Australian football
- English school games
- Eton College
- Harrow football
- Gaelic football
- Gridiron football
- Rugby football
- Hybrid codes
Golf
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- Match play
- Skins game
- Stroke play
- Team play
Gymnastics
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- Artistic gymnastics
- Juggling
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Rope jumping
- Sports acrobatics
- Sports aerobics
- Slacklining
- Trampolining
- Trapeze
- Tumbling
Handball family
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Hunting
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Sometimes considered blood sports.
Ice sports
Kite sports
- Kite buggy
- Kite fighting
- Kite landboarding
- Kitesurfing
- Parasailing
- Snow kiting
- Sport kite (Stunt kite)
Mixed discipline
Decathlon, Heptathlon, and the Pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five component contests that are scored together using one points system.
- Adventure racing
- Biathlon
- Duathlon
- Decathlon
- Heptathlon
- Icosathlon
- Modern pentathlon
- Pentathlon
- Triathlon
- Woodsman
Orienteering family
Pilota family
- American handball
- Australian handball
- Basque pelota
- Fives
- Frisian handball
- Four square
- Gaelic handball
- Jeu de paume
- Palla
- Patball
- Valencian pilota
Racquet (or racket) sports
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- Badminton
- Ball badminton
- Basque pelota
- Beach tennis
- Fives
- Pitton
- Paleta Frontón
- Pelota mixteca
- Platform tennis
- Qianball
- Racquetball
- Racquets
- Racketlon
- Real tennis
- Soft tennis
- Speed-ball
- Speedminton
- Squash
- Squash tennis
- Stické
- Table tennis
- Tennis
Remote control
Running
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Sailing
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Snow sports
Skiing
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- Alpine skiing
- Cross-country skiing
- Freestyle skiing
- Nordic combined
- Nordic skiing
- Ski jumping
- Skijoring
- Ski touring
- Speed skiing
- Telemark skiing
Sled sports
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Shooting sports
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Sports using a firearm.
Stacking
Stick and ball games
Hockey
- Hockey
Hurling and shinty
Lacrosse
Polo
- Polo
A polo player. - Polocrosse
Street sports
Tag games
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- British bulldogs (American Eagle)
- Capture the flag
- Hana Ichi Monme
- Hide and seek
- Jugger
- Kabaddi
- Kho kho
- Kick the can
- Oztag
- Red rover
- Tag
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.
- 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.).
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Canoeing
Kayaking
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Rafting
Rowing
Other paddling sports
Aquatic ball sports
Surface
Underwater
Competitive swimming
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- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly stroke
- Freestyle swimming
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
Subsurface and recreational
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- Apnoea finswimming
- Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
- Freediving
- Immersion finswimming
- Scuba diving
- Spearfishing
- Snorkelling
- Sport diving (sport)
- Underwater hockey
- Underwater orienteering
- Underwater photography (sport)
- Underwater target shooting
Diving
Weightlifting
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- Basque traditional weightlifting
- Bodybuilding
- Highland games
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Strength athletics (strongman)
- Steinstossen
Motorized sports
Auto racing
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- Autocross (aka 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
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- Drag boat racing
- F1 powerboat racing
- Hydroplane racing
- Jet sprint boat racing
- Offshore powerboat racing
- Personal water craft
Motorcycle racing
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- 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
Other
Musical Sports
Mind sports
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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
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Other
Speedcubing
clock, megaminx, pyraminx, skewb, square 1, blindfolded 3x3, blindfold 4x4, blindfolded 5x5, one handed, fewest moves, multi blindfolded, feet solving.
Strategy board games
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- Arimaa
- Backgammon
- Chess
- Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
- Losing chess
- Checkers
- Chinese checkers
- Diplomacy
- Dominoes
- Draughts
- Go
- Go-Moku
- Jacquet
- Mancala
- Mahjong
- Risk
- Scrabble
- Shogi
- Sholo Guti
- Sogo (Score four)
- Stratego
- Sudoku
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
Competitive video games (Esports)
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- Call of Duty
- Counter-Strike
- Dota 2
- FIFA 16
- Halo
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
- Heroes of the Storm
- League of Legends
- NBA 2K16
- NHL 16
- Smite
- StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
- World of Tanks
- World of Warcraft
Different classification
Potentially other sports are listed here.
Air sports
Athletics (track and field)
- Steeplechase
- Cross country
- Jumping
- Throwing
- Racewalking
Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
Endurance sports
Performance sports
Skating sports
- Aggressive inline skating
- Artistic roller skating
- Figure skating
- Freestyle slalom skating
- Ice dancing
- Ice skating
- Inline speed skating
- Rinkball
- Rink hockey
- Roller derby
- Roller skating
- Short track speed skating
- Skater hockey
- Speed skating
- Synchronized skating
Snowsports
See #Skiing
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Strongman
- Thumb wrestling
- Toe wrestling
- Tug-o-war
- Wood chopping
- Wood splitting
- Zourkhaneh
Table sports
- Air hockey
- Backgammon
- Beer Pong
- Connect Four
- Cue sports
- Draughts (aka checkers)
- Dominoes
- Headis
- Janggi
- Mahjong (aka Taipei)
- Reversi (aka Othello)
- Shogi
- Scrabble
- Subbuteo
- Table football
- Table hockey
- Table tennis (aka 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
- Pall mall
- Pétanque
- Pitch and putt
- Punto, raffa, volo
- Shooting
- Shuffleboard
- Skittles
- Skee ball
- Trugo
- Woodball
Team sports
Sports that involve teams.
- Basketball family
- Bat and ball games
- Bowling
- Basque pelota
- Bunnock
- Camogie
- Football family
- Gateball
- Gaelic football
- Handball
- Hardcourt Bike Polo
- Hockey family
- Horseshoe
- Hurling
- Kickball
- Lacrosse
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Muggle quidditch[5]
- Newcomb ball
- Polo
- Paintball
- Quidditch
- Rowing
- Sepak takraw
- Tennis polo
- Ultimate (sport)
- Underwater football
- Woodsman
- Volleyball
Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
Fictional sports
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Miscellaneous sports
- Chess boxing
- Competitive eating
- Egg and spoon race
- Extreme ironing
- Footbag (hacky sack)
- Haggis hurling
- Lumberjack sports
- Patball
- Ringette
- Sack race
- Soap shoes
- Tennikoit
- Tetherball
- Three-legged race
- Wallball
See also
References
- ↑ How many sports are there in the world? (Archived July 23, 2010 at the Wayback Machine). See ISBN 9780760316825.
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