A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice, but informally can refer to sports played in winter that could be played at any time of the year. The main winter sports are skiing and snowboarding, but may also include snow-blading, monoskiing, skwal and tobogganing.

Famous Winter sport resort regions

• Rocky Mountains
• Alps
• Snowy Mountains
• Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten
• Lapland
• Stowe, Vermont

List of winter sports

Ice skating

See also team sports.

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating
• Ice sailing

Skiing

Sports in which skis are used on snow.

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross country skiing *
• Firngleiten
• Freestyle skiing *
• Nordic combined *
• Ski Archery
• Skiboarding
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowboarding *
• Snowshoe
• Speed skiing
• Telemark skiing

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.

• Ice Blocking
• Bobsleigh *
• Luge *
• Skeleton (aka Cresta) *
• Toboggan
• Wok racing
• Dogsled racing ....

Team sports

Sports that involve teams, played on ice.

• Bandy
• Curling *
• Ice hockey *
• Ice stock sport
• Shinty
• Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)

* denotes a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.

Recreational sports

Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.

• Ice boating or Ice sailing
• Tobogganing
• Snowball fight
• Building snowmen
• Shinny
• Ice swimming
• Ice fishing

See also

Winter Olympic Games.

Winter sports

External links

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• Trilingual vocabulary of Winter sports (English, Chinese, Japanese, by iyoway.jp) Shift_JIS

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