List of sports
The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category.
According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games.[1]
Acrobatic arts
[edit]- Breakdancing
- Color guard (flag spinning)
- Dancing
- Cheerleading
- Dancesport
- Dragon dance and Lion dance
- Figure skating
- Freerunning
- High kick
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Pole sports
- Stunt
- Trampolining
Air sports
[edit]- Gliding
- Hang gliding
- Human powered aircraft
- Model aircraft
- Parachuting (Bodyflight)
- Paragliding
- Ultralight aviation
Athletics
[edit]Jumping
[edit]Throwing
[edit]Running
[edit]Combined
[edit]Ball games
[edit]Bat-and-ball games
[edit]- Baseball
- Baseball5
- Corkball – four bases (no base-running)
- Cuatro esquinas
- Extreme Baseball
- Kickball
- Indian Ball
- Matball
- Over-the-line – qv
- Pelotica de goma
- Punchball
- Snow baseball
- Softball
- Stickball – variable
- Tee-ball
- Wiffleball
- Wireball
- Brännboll – four bases
- British baseball
- Elle
- Palant
- Pesäpallo – four bases
- Rounders – four bases or posts
- Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)
- The Massachusetts Game – four bases
- Town ball – variable
Cricket like
- Bete-ombro
- Cricket – two creases
- Backyard, Beach and Street cricket
- Blind cricket
- Club cricket
- Deaf cricket
- French cricket
- Ice cricket
- Indoor cricket
- Kilikiti
- Kwik cricket
- Last man stands cricket
- Limited overs cricket
- One-armed versus one-legged cricket
- Single wicket/Double wicket
- Tape ball cricket
- Tennis ball cricket
- Test cricket
- Trobriand cricket
- Windball cricket
- Crocker
- Plaquita
- Stoolball – two stools
- Vigoro – two wickets
Schlagball like
- Danish longball
- Lapta – two salos (bases)
- Schlagball
Other games
- Bat and trap
- Gillidanda
- Oină
- Old cat – variable
- Pärk
- Stoop ball
Dodgeball family
[edit]Golf
[edit]- 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
Invasion games
[edit]Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Basketball family
[edit]Football family
[edit]- Association football
- Jorkyball
- Paralympic football
- Reduced variants
- Street football
- Swamp football
- Three sided football
- Australian football
- Gaelic football
- Gridiron football
- American football
- non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Sprint football
- Street football (American)
- Unicycle football
- Wheelchair football
- XFL rules football (2001, 2020)
- Canadian football
- Underwater football
- American football
- Rugby football
- Hybrid codes
Historical
- Ancient games
- Medieval football
- English school games
- Eton College
- Harrow football
- Winchester College football
Handball family
[edit]- Beach handball
- Czech handball
- Field handball
- Goalball
- Rollball
- Tchoukball
- Torball
- Water polo
- Wheelchair handball
Stick and ball family
[edit]Hockey
[edit]Hurling and shinty
[edit]Lacrosse
[edit]Polo
[edit]Net and wall games
[edit]Games involving opponents hitting a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
Games involving opponents hitting a ball against a wall/walls using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
Roundnet use a trampoline that has the same function of a wall.
Pilota family
[edit]- American handball
- Australian handball
- Balle à la main
- Ballon au poing
- Basque pelota
- Downball
- Fives
- Frisian handball
- Four square or FS Handball
- Gaelic handball
- Jeu de paume
- Palla
- Pallone
- Patball
- Roundnet
- Valencian pilota
Racket (or racquet) sports
[edit]Sports that use a netted racket
[edit]- 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
- Squash tennis
- Stické
- Tennis
- Tennis polo
- Touchtennis
Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle
[edit]- Basque pelota
- Beach tennis
- The Downside Ball Game
- Four wall paddleball
- Matkot
- Miniten
- One wall paddleball
- Paddle ball
- Paddle tennis
- Padel
- Paleta Frontón
- Pan Pong
- Pelota mixteca
- Pickleball
- Pitton
- Platform tennis
- Sphairee
- Stoolball
- Table squash
- Table tennis (Ping Pong)
Billiards
[edit]Cue sports
[edit]- 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
[edit]Board sports
[edit]Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
Boules sports
[edit]- Bocce
- Bocce volo
- Boccia
- Bolas criollas
- Boules
- Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
- Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
- Pétanque
Bowling
[edit]- Candlepin bowling
- Duckpin bowling
- Five-pin bowling
- Nine-pin bowling
- Ten-pin bowling
- Trick bowling
- Turkey bowling
Climbing
[edit]- Competition climbing
- Ice climbing
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Solo climbing
- Top rope climbing
- Other
- Canyoning (Canyoneering)
- Coasteering
- Hiking
- Pole climbing
- Rope climbing
- Sawanobori
Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts
[edit]A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Grappling
[edit]Striking
[edit]Mixed or hybrid
[edit]- 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
- Sanda
- Shidōkan Karate
- Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
- Shooto
- Shoot boxing
- Shootfighting
- Shorinji Kempo
- Systema
- Tai chi
- Unifight
- Vajra-mushti
- Vale tudo
- Xingyiquan
- Zen Bu Kan Kempo
Weapons and kicking
[edit]- Battōjutsu
- Bojutsu
- Boffer fighting
- Buhurt
- Canne de combat
- Cardboard Tube Fighting
- Eskrima
- Egyptian stick fencing
- Fencing
- Gatka
- Historical European martial arts
- Hojōjutsu
- Iaidō
- Iaijutsu
- Jōdō
- Jogo do pau
- Jūkendō
- Jittejutsu
- Kendo
- Kenjutsu
- Krabi–krabong
- Kumdo
- Kung fu
- Kyūdō
- Kyūjutsu
- Medieval MMA
- Modern Arnis
- Naginatajutsu
- Nguni stick-fighting
- Okinawan kobudō
- Pillow Fight Championship
- Shurikenjutsu
- Silambam
- Sōjutsu
- Sword fighting
- Wing Chun
- Wushu
- lathi khela
Other
[edit]Flying disc sports
[edit]- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Disc golf (urban)
- Dodge disc
- Double disc court
- Freestyle
- Fricket
- Frisbee
- Goaltimate
- KanJam
- Guts
- Flutterguts
- Hot box
- Schtick
- Ultimate
Gymnastics
[edit]Kite sports
[edit]- Hang gliding
- Kite buggy
- Kite fighting
- Kite landboarding
- Kitesurfing
- Parasailing
- Snow kiting
- Sport kite (Stunt kite)
Mixed discipline
[edit]Decathlon, heptathlon, and the pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five-component contests that are scored together using one points system.
- Adventure racing
- Aquathlon
- Biathlon
- Duathlon
- Decathlon
- Heptathlon
- Icosathlon
- Modern pentathlon
- Pentathlon
- Tetrathlon
- Triathlon
Motorsports
[edit]Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles
Air racing
[edit]ATV racing
[edit]Auto racing
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- Drag boat racing
- F1 powerboat racing
- Hydroplane racing
- Jet sprint boat racing
- Offshore powerboat racing
- Personal water craft
Motorcycle racing
[edit]- 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
- Sidecar racing
- Track racing
- Trial
- TT racing
- Free-style moto
One wheel vehicle racing
[edit]- Electric unicycle race
Orienteering
[edit]- Amateur radio direction finding (Radio Orienteering)
- Geocaching
- Geohashing
- Letterboxing
- Orienteering
- Rogaining
- Waymarking
Parkour/Freerunning
[edit]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
[edit]Human-powered vehicles propelled by pedals
Watercarft
[edit]- Pedal boat racing
Cycling
[edit]Sports using bicycles, quadracycles, tricycles or unicycles.
Bicycle
[edit]- Artistic cycling
- BMX
- Cycle ball
- Cycle polo
- Cycle speedway
- Cyclo-cross
- Dirt jumping
- Downhill mountain biking
- Freestyle BMX
- Freestyle fixed gear
- Bike Trials
- Mountain biking
- Road bicycle racing
- Track cycling
- Underwater cycling
Quadracycle
[edit]Skibob
[edit]Tricycle
[edit]Unicycle
[edit]- Mountain unicycling
- Street unicycling
- Unicycling
- Unicycle basketball
- Unicycle hockey
- Unicycle trials
Snow sports
[edit]Skiing
[edit]Sled sports
[edit]Shooting sports
[edit]Archery
[edit]- Archery
- Field archery
- Flight archery
- Gungdo
- Indoor archery
- Kyūdō
- Match crossbow
- Mounted archery
- Popinjay
- Run archery
- Target archery
Gun sports
[edit]Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.).
Individual
[edit]- Clay pigeon shooting
- Slingshotting
- Bullseye shooting
- Field shooting
- Practical shooting
- shoot the chicken
Athletic hybrid
[edit]- Bowling
- Modern pentathlon
- Biathlon
- Summer biathlon
- Ski field shooting
- Field running
- Moose biathlon
- Target sprint
- Pistol skiing
- Orienteering shooting
- Military patrol
- Underwater target shooting
- Water baseball
- Air baseball
- Ice baseball
Skirmish
[edit]Stacking
[edit]Strength sports
[edit]Tag games
[edit]- 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
- Tag
- World Chase Tag
- Seven stones
Walking
[edit]Water sports
[edit]These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).
Paddling sports
[edit]Canoeing
[edit]Kayaking
[edit]Rafting
[edit]Rowing
[edit]Other paddling sports
[edit]Sailing
[edit]- Dinghy sailing
- Ice yachting
- Kiteboarding
- Land sailing
- Land windsurfing
- Sailing
- Windsurfing
- Wing foiling
- Yacht racing
Aquatic ball sports
[edit]Surface
[edit]Underwater
[edit]Competitive swimming
[edit]- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly stroke
- Freestyle swimming
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
[edit]Subsurface and recreational
[edit]- Apnoea finswimming
- Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
- Freediving
- Immersion finswimming
- Scuba diving
- Spearfishing
- Snorkelling
- Sport diving (sport)
- Underwater orienteering
- Underwater photography (sport)
- Underwater target shooting
Diving
[edit]Weightlifting
[edit]- Basque traditional weightlifting
- CrossFit
- Highland games
- Kettlebell lifting
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Bodybuilding
- Strength athletics (strongman)
- Steinstossen
Overlapping sports
[edit]Sports falling into two or more categories.
Sports involving animals
[edit]Dog sports
[edit]Sports in which dogs participate.
Equestrian sports
[edit]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
- Pato
- Pleasure driving
- Reining
- Rodeo
- Show hunter (British)
- Show jumping
- Steeplechase
- Sur-papakh
- Team penning
- Tent pegging
- Western pleasure
Fishing
[edit]- Angling
- Big-game fishing
- Casting
- Noodling
- Spearfishing
- Sport fishing
- Surf fishing
- Rock fishing
- Fly fishing
- Ice fishing
- Bass fishing
Hunting
[edit]Sometimes considered blood sports.
Rodeo-originated
[edit]Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.
- Bullriding
- Miniature Bull Riding
- Barrel Racing
- Bronc Riding
- Pole bending
- Roping
- Steer riding
- Steer Wrestling
- Goat Tying
Mind sports
[edit]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
[edit]Esports
[edit]- 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
- Sports video game
- Third-person shooter
- Tile-matching video game
- Virtual reality game
Speedcubing
[edit]Strategy board games
[edit]- Arimaa
- Backgammon
- Checkers
- Chess
- Atomic chess
- Bughouse chess
- Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess)
- Losing chess
- Chinese checkers
- Diplomacy
- Dominoes
- Draughts
- Go
- Go-Moku
- Jacquet
- Janggi
- Ludo
- Mahjong
- Mancala
- Reversi
- Risk
- Scrabble
- Shōgi
- Sholo Guti
- Sogo (Score four)
- Stratego
- Sudoku
- Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
- Yut
Other
[edit]- Competitive programming
- Debating
- Fantasy sport
- Quizzing
- Bible Quizzing
- Capture the flag (cybersecurity)
Competitive model sports
[edit]Remote control
[edit]Different classification
[edit]Potentially other sports are listed here.
Air sports
[edit]Beach sports
[edit]Versions of sports played on sand
Electronic sports
[edit]Sports played using electronic devices.
- Capture the flag (cybersecurity)
- Combat robot
- Competitive programming
- Contesting
- Fitness game
- Radio-control vehicles
- Video gaming
- Wire loop game
Endurance sports
[edit]- Chariot racing
- Cross-country skiing
- Cycling
- Iditarod
- Long-distance running
- Rowing
- Swimming
- Wheelchair racing
- Wood chopping
Ice sports
[edit]- Bandy
- Barrel jumping
- Bobsleigh
- Broomball
- Crokicurl
- Curling
- Figure skating
- Ice cross downhill
- Ice football
- Ice hockey
- Ice stock sport
- Ice yachting
- Luge
- Moscow broomball
- Ringette
- Skeleton
- Speed skating
Marker sports
[edit]Skating sports
[edit]- Bandy
- Figure skating
- Ice cross downhill
- Ice dancing
- Ice hockey
- Ice skating
- Inline skating
- Roller skating
- Ringette
- Rinkball
- Speed skating
- Tour skating
Snow sports
[edit]See #Skiing
Street sports
[edit]- Free running and jumping
- Freestyle footbag
- Freestyle football
- Powerbocking
- Parkour
- Scootering
- Street workout
Strength sports
[edit]Sports mainly based on sheer power.
- CrossFit
- High striker
- Highland games
- Olympic weightlifting
- Powerlifting
- Rock climbing
- Strongman
- Thumb wrestling
- Toe wrestling
- Tug-o-war
- Wood chopping
- Wood splitting
- Zourkhaneh
- Calisthenics
Table sports
[edit]- Air hockey
- Backgammon
- Beer Pong
- Carrom
- Carrom Nok Hockey
- Chess
- Connect Four
- Crokinole
- Cue sports (a.k.a. Billiards)
- Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
- Dominoes
- Headis
- Janggi
- Mahjong
- Paper Football
- Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
- Scrabble
- Shogi
- Subbuteo
- Table football
- Table hockey
- Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
- Table Shuffleboard/Sling Puck
- Teqball
- Xiangqi
Target sports
[edit]Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
- 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
[edit]Sports that involve teams.
- Basketball family
- Bat and ball games
- Bowling
- Basque pelota
- Bunnock
- Camogie
- Dodgeball
- Football family
- Gateball
- Handball
- Hardcourt Bike Polo
- Hockey family
- Horseshoe
- Hurling
- Kickball
- Lacrosse
- Loofball
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Newcomb ball
- Polo
- Paintball
- Quidditch
- Ringette
- Roller derby
- Rowing
- Sepak takraw
- Ultimate (sport)
- Woodsman
- Volleyball
Wheelchair sports
[edit]Para-versions of sports played using wheelchairs
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair handball
- Wheelchair rugby
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Wheelchair tennis
Windsports
[edit]Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
Fictional sports
[edit]Fictional sports that are played in real life:
- 43-Man Squamish
- Calvinball
- Quidditch (Harry Potter)
- Swiss Guyball
- BASEketball
- Brockian Ultra-Cricket
- Squid Game
- Hunger Games
- Whack-bat
- Blitzball
- Fictional Martial Arts
Miscellaneous sports
[edit]- Air guitar
- Arctic sports
- Cheese rolling
- Chess boxing
- Chicken fight
- Competitive eating
- Competitive math
- Conker fighting
- Cook-off
- Drum and bugle corps
- Dwyle Flonking (sport)
- Earthball
- Egg and spoon race
- Extreme ironing
- Extreme Pogo
- Ferret legging
- Fierljeppen
- Footbag (hacky sack)
- Guyball
- Haggis hurling
- Hopscotch
- Jegichagi
- Jeopardy!
- Jump rope
- Lawn mower racing
- Lumberjack sports
- Marching
- Marching band
- 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
- Wife-carrying
- Woodsman
- Yoyoing
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lipoński, Wojciech (2003). "Introduction". World Sports Encyclopedia. Ozgraf. ISBN 0760316821 – via Internet Archive. Former reference version, How many sports are there in the world? ("World Sports Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on July 23, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
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