List of sports
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Acrobatic arts
Air sports


Animal sports
Bovines

Dog sports

Sports in which dogs participate.
- Baiting
- Dog fighting
- Venatio
- Hog-dog rodeo
- Sheepdog trial
- Treibball
- Heelwork to music
- Musical canine freestyle
- Obedience trial
- Rally obedience
- Schutzhund
- Bikejoring
- Canicross
- Carting
- Dog scootering
- Mushing
- Skijoring
- Weight pulling
- Dachshund racing
- Greyhound racing
- Shepherd's Shemozzle
- Sled dog racing
- Terrier racing
- Beagling
- Coon hunting
- Coursing
- Drag hunting
- Earthdog trial
- Field trial
- Fox hunting
- Hare coursing
- Hound trailing
- Hunting the clean boot
- Lure coursing
- Nosework
- Tracking trial
- Trail hunting
- Dock jumping
- Dog surfing
- Agility
- Dog show
- Dog skateboarding
- Disc dog
- Flyball
- Junior showmanship
- Puppy Bowl
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.
Rodeo-originated
Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.

- Barrel racing
- Bronc riding
- Saddle Bronc Riding
- Bareback Bronc Riding
- Bull riding
- Charrería
- Chilean rodeo
- Goat tying
- Pole bending
- Roping
- Steer riding
- Steer wrestling
Others
- Elephants
- Other ungulates
- Birds
- Invertebrates
- Cricket-spitting
- Insect fighting
- Ethiopian worm walk
- Snail racing
- Spider fighting
- Worm charming
- Small mammals
- Cat agility
- Ferret-legging
- Hamster racing
- Malaysian monkey toss
- Rabbit show jumping
- Rat agility
- Thailandian monkey ball
- Herpetiles
Athletics
Jumping
Throwing
- Boomerang
- Discus
- Hammer throw
- Javelin
- Shot put
- Parasports
- Throws pentathlon
- Traditional
Running
Combined
Ball games
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
Cue sports
- Carom billiards
- 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
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
- Ice stock sport
- Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
- Marbles
- Pétanque
- Raffa
- Shuffleboard
Bowling

Dodgeball
Golf
Sports which score is counted in reference to par

- Backyard golf
- Beach golf
- Chuiwan
- Clock golf
- Codeball
- Dart golf
- Disc golf
- Farmersgolf
- Footgolf
- Four-ball golf
- Foursomes
- Fungo golf
- GolfCross
- Ground golf
- Hickory golf
- Indoor golf
- Long drive
- Match play
- Miniature golf
- Park golf
- Pitch and putt
- PowerPlay Golf
- Sholf
- Shotgun start
- Skins game
- Snow golf
- Speed golf
- Stableford
- Stroke play
- Swingolf
- Topgolf
- Urban golf
Invasion games
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
Basketball

- Basketball
- 3x3 basketball
- Beach basketball
- Biddy Basketball
- Deaf basketball
- Donkey basketball
- Hotshot
- One-on-one
- Piterbasket
- Pop-A-Shot
- Rezball
- Roller basketball[5]
- 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
- 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
- Bubble football
- Circle rules football
- Jorkyball
- Old rules
- Paralympic football
- Reduced variants
- Street football
- Swamp football
- Three sided football
- Rugby football
- Rugby league
- Masters Rugby League
- Mod league
- Non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Rugby union
- Barette
- Beach rugby
- Mini rugby
- Non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Snow rugby
- Underwater rugby
- Wheelchair rugby
- Rugby league
- Gridiron football
- American football
- Non tackle variants
- Reduced variants
- Sprint football
- Street football (American)
- Unicycle football[6]
- Wheelchair american football
- UFL rules football (2024)
- Canadian football
- Underwater football
- American football
- Australian football
- Gaelic football
- Hybrid codes
- Austus
- Boston game
- Forceback
- Freeflyball
- Fullball
- International rules football
- Kronum
- Samoa rules
- Speedball
- Swedish football
- Universal football
- Vertiball
- Volata
Handball

- Czech handball
- Field handball
- Rollball
- Visual impaired
- Water polo
- Beach water polo
Stick and Ball
Sports that use some kind of sticks for scoring goals.
Hockey
- Traditional/historic
- Beikou
- Chueca
- Khong kangjei
- Palin
- Pelota purépecha
- Field hockey
- Beach hockey
- Hockey5s
- Hockey 9s
- Indoor hockey
- Minkey
- Floor hockey
- Foot hockey
- Hoverboard hockey[7]
- On ice
- Ice skates
- Sans skates
- Power hockey
- Ring-goal
- Roller hockey
- Inline hockey
- Blind inline hockey[9]
- Inline sledge hockey
- Quad hockey
- Inline hockey
- Rossall Hockey
- Street hockey
- Ultiglockey
- Underwater
- Unicycle hockey
Hurling and shinty
Lacrosse
- Indigenous North American stickball
- Field lacrosse
- Box lacrosse
- Women's lacrosse
- Lacrosse sixes
- Intercrosse
- Wheelchair lacrosse[10]
- Polocrosse
- Segway rugpolocrosse
Polo

- Auto polo
- Chovgan
- Sagol kāngjei
- Arena polo
- Bicycle polo
- Camel polo
- Cowboy polo
- Elephant polo
- Hobby horse polo
- Roda 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.
Pilota family

Racket (or racquet) sports
- Racketlon (a series of other racket and paddle sports)
Sports that use a netted racket

Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle

Other ball sports
Board sports
Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.



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
Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts
A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Grappling

- Aiki-jūjutsu
- Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
- Arm Wrestling
- International grappling[16]
- 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
- Chinese foot 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
- Qwan Ki Do
- Shurikenjutsu
- Silambam
- Sōjutsu
- Sports Chanbara
- Stick-fighting
- Swords
- Vajra-mushti
- Wing Chun
- Wushu
Other
Exercising
Flying disc sports

- 500
- Crossbee
- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Disc golf (urban)
- Double disc court
- Freestyle
- Fricket
- Frisbee
- Guts
- Dodge disc
- Flutterguts
- KanJam
- Polish horseshoes
- Ultimate
- Goaltimate
- Hot box
- KanJam
- Schtick
Gymnastics
- Acrobalance
- Acrobatic gymnastics
- Acro dance
- Aerial hoop
- Aerial silks
- Aerobic gymnastics
- Aesthetic group gymnastics
- Artistic gymnastics
- Only men
- Only women
- Both men and women
- Former
- Baton twirling
- Juggling
- Para-gymnastics
- Parkour
- Pole sports
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Rope jumping
- Slacklining
- TeamGym
- Trampolining
- Trapeze
- Tumbling
- Tricking
- Wheel gymnastics
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
Sports involving manned motorized vehicles
Aircraft

Motorboat

Terrestrial vehicles
Automobile

- Autoball
- Auto polo
- 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
- 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[17]
- 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
- Motorcycle stunt riding
- 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 bike racing[18]
- Electric scooter racing
- Electric skateboard racing[19]
- Electric unicycle race
- Hoverboarding
- Ice racing
- Monowheel run
- Rickshaw run
- Segway polo
- Snocross
- 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
- Handcycle
- Recumbent tricycle racing
- Wheelchair racing
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
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.).
Individual

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
Skating sports

- Ice skating
- Roller sports
- Freestyle scootering
- Roller skating
- Artistic roller skating
- Inline skating
- Aggressive inline skating
- Freestyle slalom skating
- Inline alpine skating
- Inline figure skating
- Inline speed skating
- Inline hockey
- Quad
- Road skating
- Rollball
- Roller basketball
- Roller soccer
- Vert skating
- Roller skiing
- Skateboarding
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
These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).
Aquatic ball sports
Surface
- Water polo
- Beach water polo
- Canoe polo
- Stone skipping
- Waboba
Underwater
Competitive swimming
- Swimming stroke
- Individual medley
- Synchronized swimming
- Medley relay
Kindred activities
- Bifins (finswimming)
- Surface finswimming
Diving
Subsurface and recreational

Non motorized vehicles
Paddling sports
Canoeing and kayaking
Rafting

Rowing
Other paddling sports
Sailing

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

- Speedsolving
- Tetrahedron
- Cube
- Skewb Diamond (octahedron)
- Dodecahedron
- Dogic (icosahedron)
- Other
Competitive model sports

Remote control
Esports

Strategy board games


- Chaturanga
- Arimaa
- Chadarangam
- Chaturaji
- Janggi
- Makruk
- Mak-yek
- Shatar
- Shatra (game)
- Shatranj
- Chess
- Atomic chess
- Bughouse chess
- Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess)
- Fast chess
- Losing chess
- More than two players
- Non square board
- Cheskers
- Courier chess
- Grant Acedrex
- Indian chess
- Senterej
- Short assize
- Tamerlane chess
- Chess
- Shōgi
- Sittuyin
- 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
Both physical and mind
Different classification
Potentially other sports are listed here.
Air sports
Beach sports
Versions of sports played on sand

- Beach basketball
- Beach golf
- Beach handball
- Beach hockey
- Beach karate
- Beach rugby
- Beach soccer
- Beach tennis
- Beach volleyball
- Beach volleyball 4x4
- Beach wrestling
Compromise rules
Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
Endurance sports
Ice sports

- Figure skating
- Hockey
- Bandy
- Broomball
- Moscow broomball
- Ice hockey
- Ringette
- Ice cricket
- Ice fishing
- Ice football
- Icetrack cycling
- Ice yachting
- Sled
- Speed skating
- Target
Marker sports
Parasports
Visual impaired

- Audio Darts
- Blind baseball
- Blind cricket
- Blind football
- Blind inline hockey
- Goalball
- Torball
- Para judo
- Showdown
Wheelchair sports
Para-versions of sports played using wheelchairs

- Power hockey
- Wheelchair American Football
- Wheelchair Australian rules football
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair curling
- Wheelchair dancesport
- Wheelchair fencing
- Wheelchair handball
- Wheelchair lacrosse
- Wheelchair netball
- Wheelchair pickleball
- Wheelchair racing
- Wheelchair rugby
- Wheelchair rugby league
- Wheelchair soccer
- Wheelchair tennis
Other

- Adaptive Standing Tennis
- Boccia
- Deaf basketball
- Deaf cricket
- One-armed versus one-legged cricket
- Table Cricket
- Ice sledge racing
- Inline sledge hockey
- Sledge hockey
- Special hockey
- Midget wrestling
- Para-alpine skiing
- Para-athletics
- Para-badminton
- Paracanoe
- Paraclimbing
- Para-cycling
- Para-equestrian
- Para-gymnastics
- Paralympic football
- Paralympic Nordic skiing
- Paralympic powerlifting
- Paralympic shooting
- Pararowing
- Para snowboard
- Para-strongman[21]
- Para surfing
- Para swimming
- Para table tennis
- Para taekwondo
- Paratriathlon
- Sitting volleyball
- Standing volleyball
- Beach ParaVolley
Snow sports

- Boardercross
- Freestyle snowboarding
- Ski flying
- Skibob
- Snow baseball
- Snowboarding
- Snowshoe running
- Snow golf
- Snow volleyball
- Skiboarding
- Yukigassen
Street sports
- Free running and jumping
- Freestyle footbag
- Freestyle football
- Powerbocking
- Parkour
- Scootering
- Street workout
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.

Tabletop games
- Backgammon
- Beer pong
- Carrom
- Carrom Nok Hockey
- Chaturanga and descendants
- Connect Four
- Crokinole
- Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
- Dominoes
- Mahjong
- Paper football
- Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
- Scrabble
- Tabletop baseball
- 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
- Dartball
- 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
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Basque pelota
- Bat and ball games
- Bowling
- Bunnock
- Camogie
- Dodgeball
- Football
- Gateball
- Handball
- Hardcourt Bike Polo
- Hockey
- 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
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
- Battle rap
- Chess boxing
- Chicken fight
- Competitive eating
- Competitive math
- Conker fighting
- Cook-off
- Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
- Drum and bugle corps
- Dwile flonking
- Earthball
- Egg and spoon race
- Extreme ironing
- Extreme Pogo
- Ferret legging
- Fierljeppen
- Fingerboarding
- Footbag (hacky sack)
- Flair bartending
- Gravity Racing
- Guyball
- Gurning
- Haggis hurling
- Hopscotch
- Idiotarod
- Jegichagi
- Jeopardy!
- Jump rope
- Lawn mower racing
- Lumberjack sports
- Marching
- Marching band
- Military exercise
- Milk chugging
- Object spinning
- Patball
- Pea shooting
- Quiz Bowl
- Redneck Games
- Ring-goal
- Ringette
- Road bowling
- Sack race
- Slap fighting
- Soap shoes
- Stihl Timbersports Series
- Tennikoit
- Tetherball
- Three-legged race
- Ultimate Tazer Ball
- Wallball
- Wheel of Fortune
- Wife-carrying
- Woodsman
- Yoyoing



