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The following is a list of sports, divided by category. There are many more sports to be added. This system has a disadvantage because some sports may fit in more than one category. Here they are only listed in one.
Athletics
Sports that include animals
Combat sports
Generally sports in which athletes fight or combat each other, usually one-on-one.
- Aikido
- Baguazhang
- Boxing
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Capoeira
- Chess boxing
- Fencing
- Hapkido
- Iaido
- Judo
- Ju-jitsu
- Karate
- Kempo
- Kendo
- Kickboxing
- Krav Maga
- Kung-fu
- Mixed martial arts
- Muay Thai
- Naginata-do
- Pradal Serey
- Pencak Silat
- Sambo
- Sumo
- Taekwondo
- Tai Chi Chuan
- Tang Soo Do (tangsudo)
- Wing Chun
- Wrestling
- Wushu
- Yağlı güreş
- Wado Ryu
Cycling
Sports using bicycles or unicycles.
- Bicycle polo
- BMX racing
- Cycloball
- Cyclocross
- Mountain bicycling
- Mountain unicycling
- Road bicycle racing
- Track cycling
- Triathlon
- Unicycle trials
Extreme sports
- Adventure racing
- Aggressive skating
- BASE jumping
- Bodyboarding
- Brutal Woods
- Bungee jumping
- Footskating
- Kitesurfing
- Kiteboarding
- Ice climbing
- Indoor surfing
- Motocross
- Mountainboarding
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Rock climbing
- Skateboarding
- Snowboarding
- Wakeboarding
- Surfing
Gymnastics
Dance
- Ballet
- Hip hop dance
- Ballroom dance
- Jazz dance
- Tap dance
- Modern dance
- Lyrical dance
- Irish dance
- Ice_dance
Motor Vehicle racing
Miscellaneous
- American handball
- Children playground sport
- Combat robot
- DanceSport
- Disabled sports
- Fives
- Table football
- Footbag (hacky sack)
- Haggis Hurling
- Jai-Alai
- Keysport (La Llave)
- Lion dancing
- Marching Band
- Modern pentathlon
- Ringo
- Subbuteo
- Tetherball
- Triathlon
Other extreme sports
Sports not based on a specific field.
- Aerobatics
- Aeromodelling
- Amateur Radio Direction Finding
- Ballooning
- Caving
- Casting
- Canyoning
- Fell running
- Flying disc
- Gliding
- Hang gliding
- Mountainboarding
- Mountaineering
- Orienteering
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Scuba diving
- Skydiving
- Sport fishing
- Sport flying
- Surfing
- Zorbing
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
Racquet (or racket) sports
Sports where a player use a racquet (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects.
- Badminton
- Ball Badminton
- Frontenis
- Paddleball
- Pelota
- Platform tennis
- Pington
- Racquetball
- Racquets
- Racketlon
- Real tennis
- Soft tennis
- Speed-o-Ball (Speedball)
- Squash
- Squash tennis
- Stické
- Table Tennis
- Tennis
- Tennis Polo
- Xare
- Lotball
Skating sports
- Artistic roller skating
- Bandy
- Figure skating
- Ice hockey
- Inline speed skating
- Inline hockey
- Rinkball
- Rink hockey
- Roller derby
- Roller hockey
- Roller skating
- Roller speed skating
- Short track speed skating
- Skater hockey
- Speed skating
- Synchronized skating
Snow sports
Sports in which skis or snowboards are used.
- Alpine skiing (also known as Downhill skiing)
- Backcountry skiing (also known as Off Piste skiing)
- Biathlon
- BroomBall
- Cross country skiing (together with ski jumping and nordic combined also known as Nordic skiing)
- Freestyle skiing
- Grass skiing
- Nordic combined
- Roller skiing
- Skibob
- Ski flying
- Skijoring
- Ski jumping
- Ski touring
- Speed skiing
- Telemark skiing
- Snowboarding
- Snowshoeing
- Freestyle snowboarding
- Extreme snowboarding
Winter sports
Sports that use sleighs.
- Bobsleigh
- Land luge (also known as street luge and road luge)
- Luge
- Skeleton
- Toboggan
- Wok Racing
Entertainment sports
Target sports
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
- Archery
- Atlatl
- Billiard Sports
- Bocce
- Boccia
- Bowling
- Calva
- Croquet
- Curling
- Darts
- Golf
- Disc golf
- Speed golf
- Golfcross
- Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)
- Laser Tag
- Lawn bowls
- Marbles
- Matball
- Pall mall
- Pelota
- Petanque
- Shooting
- Skittles
- Trugo
- Lotball
Team sports
Sports that involve teams.
- Airsoft
- American football
- Australian rules football
- Bandy
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Beach handball
- Beach soccer
- Beach rugby
- Beach volleyball
- Beach wrestling
- Box lacrosse
- Basque pelota
- Broomball
- Camogie
- Canadian football (very similar to American football see comparison)
- Canoe Polo
- Cestoball
- Cricket
- Curling
- Colorguard
- Danball
- Dodgeball
- Eton Wall Game
- Field Hockey
- Fistball
- Floorball
- Football (soccer
- Footvolley
- Futsal
- Gaelic football
- Gateball
- Goalball
- Handball
- Hornussen
- Hurling
- Ice Hockey
- Indoor lacrosse
- Inline hockey
- Kabaddi
- Kabucha Toli (also called Stickball or Toli)
- Kickball
- Korfball
- Lacrosse
- Laser Tag
- Lotball
- Marching Band
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Netball
- Paintball
- Pesapallo
- Petanque
- Polo
- Ringette
- Rinkball
- Rink hockey
- Road hockey
- Roller Hockey
- Rounders
- Royal Shrovetide Football
- Rugby League
- Rugby Union
- Scuffleball
- Sepak Takraw
- Shinty
- Skater hockey
- Skittles
- Slamball
- Softball
- Speedway Racing
- Speedball
- Spy Wars
- Takraw
- Tennis Polo
- Tchoukball
- Throwball
- Ultimate, sometimes called "Ultimate Frisbee".
- Underwater hockey
- Volleyball
- Water polo
- Wiffle ball
- Winchester College Football
- WinterGuard
Competitive board games
Sports that require little or no physical abilities (see also board games).
- Amateur radio contesting
- Bridge
- Chess
- Dominoes
- Draughts (or Checkers)
- Go
- High Speed Telegraphy
- Poker
- Scrabble
- Subbuteo
- Shogi
- Monopoly
- Briscola
Water sports
Sports that are played in, on or near the water: (see List of water sports)
Fictitious Sports
Sports which exist only in imaginary settings, for instance in fiction.
- Anbo-Jitsu
- Apopudobalia
- BaseketBall
- Blernsball
- Blitzball
- Brockian Ultra-Cricket
- Calvinball
- Discs of Tron
- Firediving
- Frungy
- Futuresport
- Kolhii
- Kosho
- Podracing
- Quidditch
- Rollerball
- Sabaac
- Snake bashing (Simpsons)
- Thong Grabbin'
- Zero Gee Football from Red Dwarf
- 23-Man Squamush, from "Mad" magazine
- the titular zero-gravity game in Ender's Game
- Guyball, as featured in the UK comedy series Green Wing
See also
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