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The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category.
According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games.[1]
Acrobatic arts
Air sports
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Animal sports
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Bovines
Dog sports
Sports in which dogs participate.
Equines
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
- Trick riding
- Horse racing
- Horse polo, or polo
- Horseball
- Jineteada gaucha
- Jousting
- Mounted games
- Mounted archery
- Organized horse fighting
- Pato
- Pleasure driving
- Reining
- Rodeo
- Show hunter (British)
- Show jumping
- Steeplechase
- Sur-papakh
- Team penning
- Tent pegging
- Western pleasure
Fishing
Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
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Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.
- Barrel racing
- Bronc riding
- Saddle Bronc Riding
- Bareback Bronc Riding
- Bull riding
- Chilean rodeo
- Goat tying
- Pole bending
- Roping
- Steer riding
- Steer wrestling
Others
- Elephants
- Other ungulates
- Birds
- Invertebrates
- Small mammals
- Herpetiles
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The three activities in Track and field, from top-bottom rows: jumping, throwing and running.
Jumping
Throwing
Running
Combined
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Ball games
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Bat-and-ball games (safe haven games)
Games in which the objective of the offensive team is to reach safe havens to score runs, and of the defense to prevent it.
Billiards
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- Carom billiards
- Novuss (and cued forms of carrom)
- 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
Ground billiards
Boules sports
Games which the objective is to throw, roll or slide balls as closely as possible to a jack or target.
- Bocce
- Bocce volo
- Boccia
- Bolas criollas
- Boules
- Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
- Curling
- Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
- Marbles
- Pétanque
- Raffa
- Shuffleboard
Bowling
Dodgeball family
Golf
Sports which score is counted in reference to par
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Invasion games
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Basketball family
- Basketball
- 3x3 basketball
- Beach basketball
- Biddy Basketball
- Deaf basketball
- Donkey basketball
- Hotshot
- One-on-one
- Piterbasket
- Pop-A-Shot
- Rezball
- Six-on-six basketball
- Slamball
- Streetball
- Super Shot
- Twenty-one
- Unicycle basketball
- Water basketball
- Wheelchair basketball
- Canoe polo
- Cestoball
- Dueball
- Flickerball
- Horseball
- Korfball
- Beach korfball
- Netball
- Pato
- Ringball
Football family
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- Historical
- Ancient games
- Aqsaqtuk
- Chinlone
- Cuju
- Episkyros
- Harpastum
- Kemari
- Ki-o-rahi
- Marn Grook
- Pasuckuakohowog
- Phaininda
- Tepuk
- Woggabaliri
- Yubi lakpi
- Medieval football
- English school games
- Eton College
- Harrow football
- Winchester College football
- Modern codes
- Association football
- Australian football
- Gaelic football
- Gridiron football
- American football
- non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Sprint football
- Street football (American)
- Unicycle football[4]
- Wheelchair football
- UFL rules football (2024)
- Canadian football
- Underwater football
- American football
- Rugby football
- Rugby league
- Masters Rugby League
- Mod league
- Non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Rugby union
- Beach rugby
- Mini rugby
- Non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Snow rugby
- Underwater rugby
- Wheelchair rugby
- Rugby league
- Hybrid codes
Handball family
Stick and ball family
Sports that use some kind of sticks for scoring goals.
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- Traditional/historic
- Field hockey
- Beach hockey
- Hockey5s
- Hockey 9s
- Indoor hockey
- Minkey
- Floor hockey
- Foot hockey
- Ice skates
- On ice sans skates
- Power hockey
- Ring-goal
- Roller hockey
- Rossall Hockey
- Street hockey
- Underwater
- Unicycle hockey
Hurling and shinty
Lacrosse
Polo
- Sagol kāngjei
- Arena polo
- Bicycle polo
- Cowboy polo
- Elephant polo
- Hobby horse polo
- Segway polo
- Snow polo
- Unicycle polo
- Yak polo
Other goal sports
Net and wall games
Sports when players/teams score whenever the opponent fails to return validly the possession of ball/bird back.
Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely the body:
Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball against walls or any rebounding surface using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
Games that use both walls and net
Pilota family
Racket (or racquet) sports
Sports that use a netted racket
- Badminton
- Ball badminton
- Frontenis
- Battledore and shuttlecock
- Crossminton (previously "Speedminton")
- Qianball
- Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports)
- Rackets
- Racquetball
- Real tennis
- Road tennis
- Soft tennis
- Speed-ball
- Squash
- Stické
- Tennis
- Touchtennis
Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle
Other ball sports
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Board sports
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Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
- Hoverboarding
- Skateboarding
- Casterboarding
- Fingerboarding
- Fingerbmx-ing
- Fingersnowboarding
- Finger surfboarding
- Handboarding
- Freeboard (skateboard)
- Freeskating
- Longboarding
- Snakeboarding
- Streetboarding
- Scootering
- Skysurfing
- Skwal
- Streetluge
- Snowboarding
- Mountainboarding
- Para-snowboarding
- Sandboarding
- Snowkiting
- Snowskating
- Surfing
- Wakeboarding
- Paddleboarding
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Climbing
- Competition climbing
- Competition bouldering
- Competition ice climbing
- Competition lead climbing
- Competition speed climbing
- Ice climbing
- Mountaineering
- Paraclimbing
- Rock climbing
- Solo climbing
- Top rope climbing
- Other
- Canyoning (Canyoneering)
- Coasteering
- Hiking
- Pole climbing
- Rope climbing
- Sawanobori
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Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts
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A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Grappling
- Aiki-jūjutsu
- Arm Wrestling
- Jujutsu
- Sambo (martial art)
- Sumo
- Wrestling
- Amateur wrestling
- Beach wrestling
- Belt wrestling
- Catch wrestling
- Folk wrestling
- Alysh
- Scottish backhold
- Barróg
- Bokh
- Boli Khela
- Bultong
- Buno
- Canarian wrestling
- Collar-and-elbow
- Cornish wrestling
- Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling
- Devon wrestling
- Dumog
- Gatta Gusthi
- Glima
- Gouren
- Huka-huka
- Karakucak
- Kene
- Kurash
- Lancashire wrestling
- Leonese wrestling
- Lutte Traditionnelle
- Malakhra
- Malla-yuddha
- Mongolian wrestling
- Mukna
- Naban
- Narodno rvanje
- Pehlwani
- Ringen
- Ristynės
- Schwingen
- Shuai jiao
- Ssireum
- Tegumi
- Varzesh-e Pahlavani
- Yağlı Güreş
- Greek wrestling
- Jacket wrestling
- Mud wrestling
- Professional wrestling
- Submission wrestling
Striking
Mixed or hybrid
- American Kenpo
- ARB
- Baguazhang
- Bando
- Bartitsu
- Bujinkan
- Hapkido
- Chun Kuk Do
- Hwa Rang Do
- Jeet Kune Do
- Kajukenbo
- Kalaripayattu
- Krav Maga
- Kuk Sool Won
- Luta livre
- Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
- Mixed martial arts
- Northern Praying Mantis
- Ninjutsu
- Pankration
- Pencak Silat
- Sanda
- Shidōkan Karate
- Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
- Shooto
- Shoot boxing
- Shootfighting
- Shoot wrestling
- Shorinji Kempo
- Systema
- Tai chi
- Unifight
- Vajra-mushti
- Vale tudo
- Xingyiquan
- Zen Bu Kan Kempo
Weapons
- Boffer fighting
- Buhurt
- Cardboard Tube Fighting
- Eskrima
- German school of fencing
- Guns
- Historical European martial arts
- Hojōjutsu
- Iaido
- Iaijutsu
- Jieitaikakutōjutsu
- Jittejutsu
- Jūkendō
- Kapap
- Kendo
- Kenjutsu
- Krabi–krabong
- Kumdo
- Kung fu
- Kyūdō
- Kyūjutsu
- Medieval MMA
- Naginatajutsu
- Okinawan kobudō
- Pillow Fight Championship
- Shurikenjutsu
- Silambam
- Sōjutsu
- Stick-fighting
- Swords
- Vajra-mushti
- Wing Chun
- Wushu
Other
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Flying disc sports
- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Disc golf (urban)
- Dodge disc
- Double disc court
- Freestyle
- Fricket
- Frisbee
- Goaltimate
- KanJam
- Guts
- Flutterguts
- Hot box
- Schtick
- Ultimate
Gymnastics
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- Acrobatic gymnastics
- Aerial hoop
- Aerial silks
- Aerobic gymnastics
- Artistic gymnastics
- Only men
- Only women
- Both men and women
- Calisthenics
- Competitive yoga
- Juggling
- Mallakhamba
- Parkour
- Pole dance
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Rope jumping
- Rope climbing
- Slacklining
- Baton twirling
- Trampolining
- Trapeze
- Tumbling
- Wheel gymnastics
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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.
Motorsports
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Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles
Air racing
Motorboat racing
Terrestrial vehicles
Automobile
- Autoball
- Autocross (a.k.a. Slalom)
- Autograss
- Banger racing
- Board track racing
- Demolition derby
- Desert racing
- Dirt track racing
- Drag racing
- Drifting
- Endurance racing
- Folkrace
- Formula racing
- Formula Libre
- Formula Student
- Hillclimbing
- Baseball racing
- Kart racing
- Land speed records
- Lawn mower racing
- 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
- Sports car racing
- Sprint car racing
- Street racing
- Stock car racing
- Time attack
- Tractor pulling
- Tractor race[6]
- Touring car racing
- Truck racing
- Vintage racing
- Wheelstand competition
Motorcycle
- Auto Race
- Board track racing
- Cross-country rally
- Endurance racing
- Enduro
- Freestyle motocross
- Grand Prix motorcycle racing
- Grasstrack
- Hillclimbing
- Ice speedway
- Indoor enduro
- Motoball
- Motocross
- Motorcycle drag racing
- Motorcycle speedway
- Off-roading
- Rally raid
- Road racing
- Stunt riding
- Superbike racing
- Supercross
- Supermoto
- Supersport racing
- Sidecar racing
- Track racing
- Trial
- TT racing
- Free-style moto
Others
- All-terrain vehicle competition
- Electric unicycle race
- Ice racing
- Rickshaw run
- Segway polo
- Snowmobiling
- Snowmobile skipping
- Whirlyball
Orienteering
Parkour/Freerunning
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
- Obstacle racing (OCR)
- Parkour
- Trampolining
- World Chase Tag
Pedal vehicle
Human-powered vehicles propelled by pedals
Cycling
Sports using bicycles, quadracycles, tricycles or unicycles.
Bicycle
Quadracycle
Tricycle
Unicycle
- Icetrack cycling
- Mountain unicycling
- Street unicycling
- Unicycling
- Unicycle basketball
- Unicycle football
- Unicycle hockey
- Unicycle polo
- Unicycle trials
Watercraft
- Pedal boat racing
Racing
- Running
- Skating
Shooting sports
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Archery
- Archery
- Dartchery
- Field archery
- Flight archery
- Gungdo
- Indoor archery
- Kyūdō
- Match crossbow
- Mounted archery
- Popinjay
- Run archery
- Target archery
Gun sports
Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.).
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Athletic hybrid
- Air baseball
- Biathlon
- Bowling
- Field running
- Ice baseball
- Laser-run
- Military patrol
- Modern pentathlon
- Moose biathlon
- Orienteering shooting
- Pistol skiing
- Ski field shooting
- Summer biathlon
- Target sprint
- Triathle
- Underwater target shooting
- Water baseball
Skirmish
Snow sports
Skiing
Sled sports
Stacking
Strength sports
Tag games
- Atya patya
- Bo-taoshi
- British Bulldog (American Eagle; Australian Dingo)
- Capture the flag
- Darebase
- Hana Ichi Monme
- Hide-and-seek
- Jugger
- Kabaddi
- Kho kho
- Kick the can
- Langdi
- Marco Polo
- Oztag
- Red Rover
- Seven stones
- Surr
- Tag
- World Chase Tag
Walking
Water sports
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These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).
Paddling sports
Canoeing
Kayaking
Rafting
Rowing
Other paddling sports
Sailing
Aquatic ball sports
Surface
Underwater
Competitive swimming
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly stroke
- Freestyle swimming
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
- Bifins (finswimming)
- Surface finswimming
Subsurface and recreational
Diving
Weightlifting
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
Combination puzzle
- Speedcubing
- Tetrahedron
- Cube
- Skewb Diamond (octahedron)
- Dodecahedron
- Dogic (icosahedron)
- Other
Esports
- Battle royale game
- Combat flight simulation game
- Digital collectible card game
- Fighting game
- First-person shooter
- Multiplayer online battle arena
- Real-time strategy
- Real-time tactics
- Rhythm game
- Sim racing
- Speedrunning
- Sports video game
- Third-person shooter
- Tile-matching video game
- Virtual reality game
Strategy board games
- Chaturanga
- Arimaa
- Chess
- Atomic chess
- Bughouse chess
- Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess)
- Fast chess
- Losing chess
- Janggi
- Shōgi
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- Checkers
- Chinese checkers
- Diplomacy
- Dominoes
- Go
- Go-Moku
- Ludo
- Mahjong
- Mancala
- Monopoly
- Reversi
- Risk
- Scrabble
- Sholo Guti
- Sogo (Score four)
- Stratego
- Sudoku
- Tables games
- Yut
Other
Competitive model sports
Remote control
Overlapping sports
Sports falling into two or more categories.
Different classification
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Potentially other sports are listed here.
Air sports
Beach sports
Versions of sports played on sand
Compromise rules
Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
Endurance sports
Ice sports
- Bandy
- Barrel jumping
- Bobsleigh
- Broomball
- Moscow broomball
- Crokicurl
- Curling
- Figure skating
- Ice cross downhill
- Ice football
- Ice hockey
- Ice stock sport
- Icetrack cycling
- Ice yachting
- Luge
- Ringette
- Skeleton
- Speed skating
Marker sports
Skating sports
Snow sports
- Boardercross
- Freestyle snowboarding
- Snowboarding
- Ski flying
- Skibob
- Snowshoe running
- Snow volleyball
- Skiboarding
Street sports
- Free running and jumping
- Freestyle footbag
- Freestyle football
- Powerbocking
- Parkour
- Scootering
- Street workout
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
- Arm wrestling
- CrossFit
- High striker
- Highland games
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Rock climbing
- Strongman
- Thumb wrestling
- Toe wrestling
- Tug of war
- Woodchopping
- Wood splitting
- Zourkhaneh
- Calisthenics
Tabletop games
- Backgammon
- Beer pong
- Carrom
- Carrom Nok Hockey
- Chaturanga and descendants
- Connect Four
- Crokinole
- Cue sports (a.k.a. Billiards)
- Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
- Dominoes
- Mahjong
- Paper football
- Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
- Scrabble
- Tabletop sports
- Yahtzee
Target sports
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
- Angleball
- Archery
- Axe throwing
- Boules
- Bowling
- Calva
- Cornhole
- Croquet
- Cue sports
- Curling
- Darts
- Golf
- Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)
- Jukskei
- KanJam
- Knife throwing
- Kubb
- Lawn darts
- Matball
- Mölkky
- Pall mall
- Peashooter (toy)
- Pitch and putt
- Ring-goal
- Ring toss
- Shooting
- Shuffleboard
- Skittles
- Skee ball
- Snowball fight
- Tejo
- Trugo
- Varpa
- Water balloon
Team sports
Sports that involve teams.
- Angleball
- Basketball family
- Basque pelota
- Bat and ball games
- Bowling
- Bunnock
- Camogie
- Dodgeball
- Football family
- Gateball
- Handball
- Hardcourt Bike Polo
- Hockey family
- Horseshoe
- Hurling
- Kickball
- Kin-Ball
- Lacrosse
- Loofball
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Motoball
- Newcomb ball
- Paintball
- Polo
- Quidditch
- Ringette
- Roller derby
- Rowing
- Sepak takraw
- Tchoukball
- Ultimate
- Volleyball
- Whirlyball
- Woodsman
- Yukigassen
Wheelchair sports
Para-versions of sports played using wheelchairs
Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
Fictional sports
Fictional sports that are played in real life:
- 43-Man Squamish
- Calvinball
- Quidditch (Harry Potter)
- Swiss Guyball
- BASEketball
- Brockian Ultra-Cricket
- Hunger Games
- Whack-bat
- Blitzball
- Fictional Martial Arts
Miscellaneous sports
- Air guitar
- Arctic sports
- Cheese rolling
- Chess boxing
- Chicken fight
- Competitive eating
- Competitive math
- Conker fighting
- Cook-off
- Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
- Drum and bugle corps
- Dwyle Flonking (sport)
- Earthball
- Egg and spoon race
- Extreme ironing
- Extreme Pogo
- Ferret legging
- Fierljeppen
- Footbag (hacky sack)
- Flair bartending
- Guyball
- Gurning
- Haggis hurling
- Hopscotch
- Idiotarod
- Jegichagi
- Jeopardy!
- Jump rope
- Lawn mower racing
- Lumberjack sports
- Marching
- Marching band
- Milk chugging
- Object spinning
- Patball
- Pea shooting
- Quiz Bowl
- Redneck Games
- Ring-goal
- Ringette
- Sack race
- Soap shoes
- Stihl Timbersports Series
- Tennikoit
- Tetherball
- Three-legged race
- Ultimate Tazer Ball
- Wallball
- Wheel of Fortune
- Wife-carrying
- Woodsman
- Yoyoing
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References
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