List Of Sports

According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games.

• Breakdancing
• Color guard (flag spinning)
• Dancing
• Cheerleading
• Dancesport
• Dragon dance and Lion dance
• Figure skating
• Freerunning
• High kick
• Paragliding
• Parkour
• Pole sports
• Stunt
• Trampolining

 

• Aerobatics
• Air racing
  • Cluster ballooning
  • Hopper ballooning

 

• 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

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

 

Aquatic ball sports

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
• Field archery
• Flight archery
• Gungdo
• Indoor archery
• Kyūdō
• Mounted archery
• Popinjay
• Run archery
• Target archery

Bat-and-ball games

 

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

 

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

 

Hurling and shinty

 

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

Lacrosse

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

Polo

• Polo

   

  • 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:

 

Games involving opponents hitting a ball against a wall/walls using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:

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

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
  • 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)

 

 

 

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

 

• 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

 

Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle

• Artistic cycling
• BMX
• Cycle ball
• Cycle polo
• Cycle speedway
• Cyclo-cross
• Dirt jumping
• Downhill mountain biking
• Freestyle BMX
• 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

A combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.

Grappling

 

Striking

 

Mixed or hybrid

 

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

Other

 

• Disc dog
• Disc golf
• Disc golf (urban)
• Dodge disc
• Double disc court
• Freestyle
• Fricket
• Frisbee
• Goaltimate
• KanJam
• Guts
• Flutterguts
• Hot box
• Schtick
• Ultimate

• 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

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

• Airsoft
• Archery
• Paintball
• Darts

 

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

Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles

• Air racing

Auto racing

 

Motorboat racing

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

Motorcycle racing

 

ATV racing

 

• All-terrain vehicle competition

• Battle of the Bands
• Battle rap
• Beatboxing
• Marching band
• Music competition

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

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

 

• 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

 

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

• 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

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

• Card stacking
• Cup stacking
• Dice stacking
• Sport stacking

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

• Strongman
• Arm Wrestling
• Toe Wrestling
• Powerlifting

• 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

• Backpacking (hiking)
• Freehiking
• Hiking
• Racewalking
• Walking

 

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

Sports falling into two or more categories.

• Chess boxing
• Motoball
• Whirlyball

Dog sports

Sports in which dogs participate.

Equestrian sports

 

Sports using a horse.

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

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

 

Other

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

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

Remote control

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

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

 

 

• Boardercross
• Freestyle snowboarding

 

• Snowboarding
• Ski flying
• Skibob
• Snowshoe running
• Skiboarding

See #Skiing

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 Nok Hockey
• Chess
• Connect Four
• 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.

Cue sports

 

 

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.

 

 

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

• Individual sport
• List of sports video games
• List of types of games
• Team sport