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.

Acrobatic arts

 * 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



 * Aerobatics
 * Air racing
 * Cluster ballooning
 * Hopper ballooning
 * Drone racing
 * Gliding
 * Hang gliding
 * Powered hang glider
 * Human powered aircraft
 * Model aircraft
 * Parachuting (Bodyflight)
 * Banzai skydiving
 * BASE jumping
 * Skysurfing
 * Wingsuit flying
 * Indoor skydiving
 * Paragliding
 * Paramotoring
 * Ultralight aviation
 * Ultralight aviation

Aquatic and paddle sports
These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).

Canoeing

 * Canoeing
 * Outrigger canoeing

Kayaking

 * Creeking
 * Flyak
 * Freeboating
 * Sea kayaking
 * Squirt boating
 * Surf kayaking
 * Whitewater kayaking

Rafting

 * Rafting
 * White water rafting

Rowing

 * Rowing (sport)
 * Gig racing
 * Coastal and ocean rowing
 * Surfboat
 * Single scull

Other paddling sports

 * Dragon boat racing
 * Stand up paddle boarding

Surface

 * Water polo
 * Canoe polo
 * Stone skipping
 * Waboba

Underwater

 * Underwater football
 * Underwater rugby
 * Underwater hockey
 * Underwater ice hockey

Competitive swimming

 * Backstroke
 * Breaststroke
 * Butterfly stroke
 * Freestyle swimming
 * Individual medley
 * Synchronized swimming
 * Medley relay

Kindred activities

 * Bifins (finswimming)
 * Surface finswimming

Subsurface and recreational

 * Apnoea finswimming
 * Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
 * Freediving
 * Immersion finswimming
 * Scuba diving
 * Spearfishing
 * Snorkelling
 * Sport diving (sport)
 * Underwater orienteering
 * Underwater photography (sport)
 * Underwater target shooting

Diving

 * Cliff diving
 * Diving

Archery



 * Archery
 * Field archery
 * Flight archery
 * Gungdo
 * Indoor archery
 * Kyūdō
 * Mounted archery
 * Popinjay
 * Run archery
 * Target archery

Bat-and-ball games
• Baseball

• *Baseball5

• *Corkball – four bases (no base-running)

• *Kickball

• *Matball

• *Over-the-line – qv

• *Punchball

• *Softball

• **16-inch softball

• **Fast-pitch softball

• *Stickball – variable

• **Vitilla

• *Tee-ball

• *Wiffleball

• *Wireball

• Bat and trap

• Bete-ombro

• Brännboll – four bases

• British baseball

• Cricket – two creases

• * 100-ball cricket

• * Backyard, Beach and Street cricket

• * Blind cricket

• * Club cricket

• * Deaf cricket

• * First-class cricket

• * French cricket

• * Ice cricket

• * Indoor cricket

• * Indoor cricket (UK variant)

• * Kilikiti

• * Kwik cricket

• * Last man stands cricket

• * Limited overs cricket

• * List A cricket

• * One-armed versus one-legged cricket

• * One Day International

• * Short form cricket

• * Single wicket/Double wicket

• * T10 cricket

• * Tape ball cricket

• * Tennis ball cricket

• * Test cricket

• * Trobriand cricket

• * Twenty20

• * Twenty20 International

• * Windball cricket

• Danish longball

• Elle

• Lapta – two salos (bases)

• The Massachusetts Game – four bases

• Oină

• Old cat – variable

• Palant

• Pesäpallo – four bases

• Plaquita

• Rounders – four bases or posts

• Schlagball

• Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)

• Stoolball – two stools

• Stoop ball

• Town ball – variable

• Vigoro – two wickets

Invasion games
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.

Basketball family

 * Basketball
 * 3x3 basketball
 * Beach basketball
 * Deaf basketball
 * Donkey basketball
 * Rezball
 * Streetball
 * Unicycle basketball
 * Water basketball
 * Wheelchair basketball
 * Cestoball
 * Flickerball
 * Korfball
 * Netball
 * Fastnet
 * Indoor netball
 * Ringball
 * Slamball

Football family
• Ancient games

• * Chinlone

• * Cuju

• * Episkyros

• * Harpastum

• * Kemari

• * Ki-o-rahi

• * Marn Grook

• * Sepak Takraw

• * Woggabaliri

• * Yubi lakpi

• Medieval football

• * Ba game

• * Caid

• * Calcio Fiorentino

• * Camping (game)

• * Cnapan

• * Cornish hurling

• * Haxey Hood

• * Knattleikr

• * La soule

• * Mob football

• * Royal Shrovetide Football

• * Uppies and Downies

• Association football

• * Jorkyball

• * Paralympic football

• ** CP football

• * Powerchair Football

• * Reduced variants

• ** Beach soccer

• ** Crab soccer

• ** Fireball

• ** Five-a-side football

• ** Futsal

• ** Ice football

• ** Indoor soccer

• ** Masters Football

• ** Papi fut

• ** Rush goalie

• ** Seven-a-side football

• *** Kings League

• ** Walking football

• * Street football

• ** Freestyle football

• ** Keepie uppie

• * Swamp football

• * Three sided football

• Australian football

• * AFLX

• * Metro footy

• * Nine-a-side footy

• * Rec footy

• English school games

• * Eton College

• ** Field game

• ** Wall game

• * Harrow football

• Gaelic football

• *Ladies' Gaelic football

• Gridiron football

• * American football

• ** Eight-man football

• ** Flag football

• ** Indoor football

• *** Arena football

• ** Nine-man football

• ** Six-man football

• ** Sprint football

• ** Street football (American)

• ** Touch football

• ** Unicycle football

• ** XFL rules football (2001, 2020)

• * Canadian football

• * Underwater football

• Rugby football

• * Rugby league

• ** Masters Rugby League

• ** Mod league

• ** OzTag

• ** Rugby league nines

• ** Rugby league sevens

• ** Tag rugby

• ** Touch football

• ** Wheelchair rugby league

• * Rugby union

• ** American flag rugby

• ** Beach rugby

• ** Mini rugby

• ** Rugby sevens

• ** Rugby tens

• ** Rugby X

• ** Snow rugby

• ** Tag rugby

• ** Touch rugby

• ** Wheelchair rugby

• * Underwater rugby

• Hybrid codes

• * Austus

• * International rules football

• * Samoa rules

• * Speedball

• * Universal football

• * Volata

Handball family



 * Balle à la main
 * Ballon au poing
 * Downball
 * Four Square or FS Handball
 * Beach handball
 * Czech handball
 * Field handball
 * Goalball
 * Spikeball
 * Tchoukball
 * Torball
 * Water polo
 * Wheelchair handball
 * Rollball

Stick and ball family

 * Hornussen
 * hurling/camogie

Hockey
• Hockey

• * Ball hockey

• * Bando

• * Bandy

• ** Rink bandy

• * Broomball

• * Field hockey

• ** Indoor field hockey

• * Floorball

• * Floor hockey

• * Ice hockey

• ** Pond hockey

• ** Power hockey

• ** Sledge hockey

• ** Underwater ice hockey

• * Ringette

• ** Gym ringette

• * Rinkball

• * Roller hockey

• ** Roller hockey (quad)

• ** Inline hockey

• ** Inline sledge hockey

• ** Inline skater hockey

• * Moscow broomball

• * Rossall Hockey

• * Spongee

• * Street hockey

• * Underwater hockey

• * Underwater ice hockey

• * Unicycle hockey

Hurling and shinty

 * Cammag
 * Hurling
 * Camogie
 * Shinty
 * Composite rules shinty-hurling

Lacrosse

 * Lacrosse
 * Box lacrosse
 * Field lacrosse
 * Intercrosse
 * Polocrosse
 * Women's lacrosse

Polo

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 * Bicycle polo
 * Canoe polo
 * Cowboy polo
 * Elephant polo
 * Hobby horse polo
 * Segway polo
 * Yak polo

Net and wall games
Games involving opponents hitting a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:

• Badminton

• Ball badminton

• Biribol

• Bossaball

• Crossnet

• Fistball

• Footbag net

• Football tennis

• Footvolley

• Jianzi

• Jokgu

• Miniten

• Padel

• Peteca

• Pickleball

• Real Tennis

• Rocball

• Sepak takraw

• Sipa

• Table squash

• Table tennis

• Tamburello

• Te ano

• Tennis

• * Beach tennis

• * Paddle tennis

• * Platform tennis

• Teqball

• Throwball

• Volleyball

• * Beach volleyball

• * Sitting volleyball

• * Water volleyball

• Wallyball

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

• Jai alai

• Jorkyball

• Rackets

• Racquetball

• Squash

• Squash tennis

• Stoop ball

• Suicide (game)

• Valencian frontó

• Wallball

• Wallyball

Pilota family

 * American handball
 * Australian handball
 * Basque pelota
 * Jai alai
 * Fives
 * Eton fives
 * Rugby fives
 * Frisian handball
 * Four square
 * Gaelic handball
 * Jeu de paume
 * Longue paume
 * Palla
 * Pallone
 * Patball
 * Roundnet
 * Valencian pilota
 * Llargues

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
 * Hardball squash
 * Squash tennis
 * Stické
 * Tennis
 * Tennis polo
 * Touchtennis

Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle

 * 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)

Board sports


Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.


 * Skateboarding
 * Casterboarding
 * Freeboard (skateboard)
 * Longboarding
 * Streetboarding
 * Scootering
 * Skysurfing
 * Streetluge
 * Snowboarding
 * Mountainboarding
 * Sandboarding
 * Snowkiting
 * Surfing
 * Bodyboarding
 * Dog surfing
 * Riverboarding
 * Skimboarding
 * Wakesurfing
 * Windsurfing
 * Wakeboarding
 * Kneeboarding
 * Paddleboarding
 * Standup paddleboarding

Climbing



 * Seiling
 * Competition climbing
 * Competition bouldering
 * Competition ice climbing
 * Competition lead climbing
 * Competition speed climbing
 * Ice climbing
 * Dry-tooling
 * Mixed climbing
 * Mountaineering
 * Alpine climbing
 * Expedition climbing
 * Rock climbing
 * Aid climbing
 * Big wall climbing
 * Bouldering
 * Deep-water soloing
 * Multi-pitch climbing
 * Sport climbing
 * Traditional climbing
 * Speed climbing
 * Solo climbing
 * Free solo climbing
 * Rope solo climbing
 * Top rope climbing
 * Other
 * Canyoning (Canyoneering)
 * Coasteering
 * Hiking
 * Pole climbing
 * Rope climbing
 * Sawanobori

Cycling


Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle

 * Artistic cycling
 * BMX
 * Cycle ball
 * Cycle polo
 * Cycle speedway
 * Cyclo-cross
 * Dirt jumping
 * Downhill mountain biking
 * Freestyle BMX
 * Bike Trials
 * Hardcourt Bike Polo
 * Mountain biking
 * Road bicycle racing
 * Track cycling
 * Underwater cycling

Skibob

 * Skibobbing

Unicycle

 * Mountain unicycling
 * Street unicycling
 * Unicycling
 * Unicycle basketball
 * Unicycle hockey
 * Unicycle trials

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

• Aikido

• Jujutsu

• Judo

• Brazilian jiu-jitsu

• Sambo (martial art)

• Sumo

• Wrestling

• Amateur wrestling

• Greco-Roman wrestling

• Freestyle wrestling

• Folk wrestling

• Boli Khela

• Catch wrestling

• Collar-and-elbow

• Collegiate wrestling

• Cornish wrestling

• Devon wrestling

• Dumog

• Glima

• Gouren

• Kurash

• Lancashire wrestling

• Malla-yuddha

• Mongolian wrestling

• Pehlwani

• Schwingen

• Shuai jiao

• Ssireum

• Varzesh-e Pahlavani

• Yağlı Güreş

• Greek wrestling

• Mud wrestling

• Oil wrestling

• Professional wrestling

Striking
• Bajiquan

• Bare knuckle boxing

• Bokator

• Boxing

• Capoeira

• Chess boxing

• Choi Kwang-Do

• Fujian White Crane

• Karate

• Kenpō

• Kickboxing

• Lethwei

• Muay Thai

• Pradal serey

• Savate

• Shaolin kung fu

• Shin-kicking

• Sikaran

• Silat

• Subak

• Taekkyeon

• Taekwondo

• Taidō

• Tang Soo Do

• Vovinam

• Wing Chun

Mixed or hybrid
• 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

 * 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

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

Gymnastic


• Acrobatic gymnastics

• Aerial hoop

• Aerial silks

• Aerobic gymnastics

• Artistic gymnastics

• * Balance beam

• * Floor

• * High bar

• * Parallel bars

• * Pommel horse

• * Still rings

• * Uneven bars

• * Vault

• Calisthenics

• Competitive yoga

• Juggling

• Mallakhamba

• Parkour

• Pole dance

• Rhythmic gymnastics

• *Ball

• *Club

• *Hoop

• *Ribbon

• *Rope

• Rope jumping

• Rope climbing

• Slacklining

• *Baton twirling

• Trampolining

• Trapeze

• * Flying trapeze

• * Static trapeze

• Tumbling

• Wheel gymnastics

Ice sports

 * Bandy
 * Rink bandy
 * Barrel jumping
 * Bobsleigh
 * Broomball
 * Crokicurl
 * Curling
 * Figure skating
 * Four skating
 * Ice dancing
 * Ice theatre
 * Pair skating
 * Single skating
 * Synchronized skating
 * Ice baseball
 * Ice cross downhill
 * Ice football
 * Ice hockey
 * Sledge hockey
 * Spongee
 * Ice stock sport
 * Ice fishing
 * Ice yachting
 * Luge
 * Moscow broomball
 * Ringette
 * Skeleton
 * Speed skating
 * Long track speed skating
 * Short track speed skating

Kite sports

 * Hang gliding
 * Kite buggy
 * Kite fighting
 * Kite landboarding
 * Kitesurfing
 * Parasailing
 * Snow kiting
 * Sport kite (Stunt kite)

Marker sports

 * Airsoft
 * Archery
 * Paintball
 * Darts

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
 * Aquathlon
 * Biathlon
 * Duathlon
 * Decathlon
 * Heptathlon
 * Icosathlon
 * Modern pentathlon
 * Pentathlon
 * Tetrathlon
 * Triathlon

Motorsports
Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles


 * Air racing

Auto racing


• 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

 * Drag boat racing
 * F1 powerboat racing
 * Hydroplane racing
 * Jet sprint boat racing
 * Offshore powerboat racing
 * Personal water craft

Motorcycle racing


• 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

ATV racing

 * All-terrain vehicle competition

Musical

 * Battle of the Bands
 * Battle rap
 * Beatboxing
 * Music competition

Orienteering

 * Amateur radio direction finding (Radio Orienteering)
 * Geocaching
 * Geohashing
 * Letterboxing
 * Orienteering
 * Rogaining
 * Waymarking

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

Running



 * Endurance
 * 5K run
 * 10K run
 * Cross-country running
 * Half marathon
 * Marathon
 * Road running
 * Ekiden
 * Tower running
 * Ultramarathon
 * Snowshoe running
 * Fell running
 * Trail running
 * Mountain running
 * Skyrunning
 * Sprint
 * Hurdles

Sailing



 * Dinghy sailing
 * Ice yachting
 * Kiteboarding
 * Land sailing
 * Land windsurfing
 * Sailing
 * Windsurfing
 * Wing foiling
 * Yacht racing

Snow sports

 * Broomball (outdoors, snow)
 * Snow baseball (Indian variant of Baseball played during winters)

Skiing

 * Alpine skiing
 * Downhill
 * Super-G
 * Giant slalom
 * Slalom
 * Alpine skiing combined
 * Freestyle skiing
 * Aerials
 * Moguls
 * Halfpipe
 * Slopestyle
 * Ski cross
 * Ski ballet
 * Speed skiing
 * Nordic skiing
 * Cross-country skiing
 * Ski jumping
 * Nordic combined
 * Telemark skiing
 * Ski mountaineering
 * Ski touring
 * Skijoring

Sled sports



 * Bobsleigh
 * Luge
 * Shovel racing
 * Skibobbing
 * Skeleton
 * Toboggan

Shooting sports
Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.).

Individual

 * Clay pigeon shooting
 * Skeet shooting
 * Trap shooting
 * Sporting clays
 * Slingshotting
 * Bullseye shooting
 * Rifle
 * ISSF rifle events
 * Fullbore target rifle
 * High power rifle
 * Benchrest shooting
 * Paralympic rifle events
 * Handgun
 * ISSF pistol events
 * Paralympic pistol events
 * Field shooting
 * Precision rifle competition
 * Precision Rifle Series
 * Field target
 * Metallic silhouette shooting
 * ICFRA Palma and F-Class
 * Plinking
 * Practical shooting
 * International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC)
 * International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA)
 * Multigun
 * Cowboy action shooting
 * Olympic dueling
 * Match crossbow
 * shoot the chicken
 * paintball

Athletic hybrid

 * 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

 * Airsoft
 * Laser tag
 * Paintball

Stacking

 * Card stacking
 * Cup stacking
 * Dice stacking
 * Sport stacking

Street sports

 * Free running and jumping
 * Freestyle footbag
 * Freestyle football
 * Powerbocking
 * Parkour
 * Scootering
 * Street workout

Strength sports

 * Strongman
 * Arm Wrestling
 * Toe Wrestling
 * Powerlifting
 * Wrestling

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
 * Tag
 * World Chase Tag

Walking

 * Hiking
 * Backpacking (hiking)
 * Off-trail hiking
 * Naked hiking
 * Racewalking
 * Walking

Weightlifting



 * Basque traditional weightlifting
 * CrossFit
 * Highland games
 * Kettlebell lifting
 * Olympic weightlifting
 * Powerlifting
 * Bodybuilding
 * Strength athletics (strongman)
 * Steinstossen

Overlapping sports
Sports falling into two or more categories.


 * Chess boxing
 * Motoball
 * Whirlyball

Dog sports
Sports in which dogs participate.

Equestrian sports


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

 * Angling
 * Big-game fishing
 * Casting
 * Noodling
 * Spearfishing
 * Sport fishing
 * Surf fishing
 * Rock fishing
 * Fly fishing
 * Ice fishing
 * Bass fishing

Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
 * Beagling
 * Big game hunting
 * Boar hunting
 * Deer hunting
 * Fox hunting
 * Wolf hunting

Rodeo-originated
Sports that have originated from rodeos in the old Western Americas.
 * Bullriding
 * Miniature Bull Riding
 * Barrel Racing
 * Bronc Riding
 * Saddle Bronc Riding
 * Bareback Bronc Riding
 * Pole bending
 * Roping
 * Breakaway Roping
 * Tie-down Roping
 * Team Roping
 * Steer Roping
 * Steer riding
 * Steer Wrestling
 * Goat Tying

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

 * Contract bridge
 * Hanafuda
 * Poker
 * Classic poker
 * Omaha
 * Online poker
 * Texas hold'em
 * Skat
 * Truco
 * Whist

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
 * Sports video game
 * Third-person shooter
 * Tile-matching video game
 * Virtual reality game

Speedcubing

 * Speedcubing
 * 2x2x2
 * 3x3x3
 * 3x3x3 One-Handed
 * 4x4x4
 * 5×5×5
 * 6×6×6
 * 7×7×7
 * Megaminx
 * Pyraminx
 * Rubik's Clock
 * Skewb
 * Square-1

Strategy board games


• 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

 * Competitive programming
 * Debating
 * Fantasy sport
 * Quizzing
 * Bible Quizzing
 * Capture the flag (cybersecurity)

Competitive model sports

 * Mini 4WD
 * Model aircraft racing
 * Model yacht racing
 * Neppis

Remote control

 * Drone racing
 * Model aerobatics
 * RC racing
 * Robot combat
 * Robot football
 * Slot car racing

Different classification
Potentially other sports are listed here.

Air sports

 * Banzai skydiving
 * Bungee jumping
 * Hot air ballooning
 * Indoor skydiving

Athletics (track and field)

 * Athletics
 * Track and field
 * Steeplechase
 * Cross country
 * Jumping
 * Triple jump
 * Long jump
 * High jump
 * Pole vault
 * Throwing
 * Boomerang
 * Discus
 * Hammer throw
 * Javelin
 * Shot put
 * Racewalking

Electronic sports
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

 * Chariot racing
 * Cross-country skiing
 * Cycling
 * Iditarod
 * Long-distance running
 * Rowing
 * Swimming
 * Wheelchair racing
 * Wood chopping

Skating sports

 * Bandy
 * Rink bandy
 * Figure skating
 * Single skating
 * Pair skating
 * Ice dancing
 * Synchronized skating
 * Four skating
 * Ice theatre
 * Ice cross downhill
 * Ice dancing
 * Ice hockey
 * Ice skating
 * Inline skating
 * Aggressive inline skating
 * Freestyle slalom skating
 * Inline speed skating
 * Roller in-line hockey
 * Inline skater hockey
 * Roller skating
 * Artistic roller skating
 * Roller derby
 * Rink hockey
 * Ringette
 * Rinkball
 * Speed skating
 * Ice skating marathon
 * Long-track speed skating
 * Short track speed skating
 * Tour skating

Snowsports
See
 * Boardercross
 * Freestyle snowboarding
 * Snowboarding
 * Ski flying
 * Skibob
 * Snowshoe running
 * Skiboarding

Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
 * Arm wrestling
 * CrossFit
 * High striker
 * Highland games
 * Caber toss
 * Sheaf toss
 * Stone put
 * Weight throw
 * Olympic weightlifting
 * Powerlifting
 * Rock climbing
 * Strongman
 * Thumb wrestling
 * Toe wrestling
 * Tug-o-war
 * Wood chopping
 * Wood splitting
 * Zourkhaneh
 * Calisthenics

Table sports

 * 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
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.

• Archery

• Axe throwing

• Bocce

• Bocce volo

• Boccia

• Bolas criollas

• Boules

• Bowling

• * Candlepin bowling

• * Duckpin bowling

• * Five-pin bowling

• * Nine-pin bowling

• * Ten-pin bowling

• * Trick bowling

• * Turkey bowling

• Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls

• Calva

• Cornhole

• Croquet

• Curling

• Darts

• Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)

• Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)

• Jukskei

• KanJam

• Knife throwing

• Kubb

• Lawn darts

• Matball

• Mölkky

• Pall mall

• Peashooter (toy)

• Pétanque

• Pitch and putt

• Ring-goal

• Ring toss

• Shooting

• Shuffleboard

• Skittles

• Skee ball

• Snowball fight

• Tejo

• Trugo

• Varpa

• Woodball

• Water balloon

Cue sports


• Carom billiards

• * Straight rail

• * Balkline

• * One-cushion carom

• * Three-cushion billiards

• * Five-pins

• * Four-ball

• * Artistic 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

• * Sinuca brasileira

• * Six-red snooker

• * Snooker plus

• Hybrid carom–pocket games

• * English billiards

• * Bottle pool

• * Cowboy

• Obstacle variations

• * Bagatelle

• * Bar billiards

• * Bumper pool

• Table Sports

• *Foosball

Golf

 * 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

Team sports
Sports that involve teams. • Basketball family

• Bat and ball games

• Bowling

• Basque pelota

• Bunnock

• Camogie

• 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

Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):


 * Kite flying
 * Parachuting
 * Hot air balloon racing
 * Indoor skydiving

Fictional sports
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
• Air guitar

• Arctic sports

• Cheese rolling

• Chess boxing

• Chicken fight

• Competitive eating

• Competitive math

• Conker fighting

• 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

• * Double Dutch

• Lawn mower racing

• Lumberjack sports

• * Aizkolaritza

• * Axe throwing

• * Logrolling

• * Wood chopping

• * Wood splitting

• Marching

• Object spinning

• * Padiddling

• * Plate spinning

• * Top

• 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