List of Sports
Here's a list of sports for you, with explanations where necessary: :D
They are listed in categories. Adventure Abseiling Caving/ potholing Fell running Geocaching (GPS treasure hunt) Ice climbing Orienteering Skydiving Air Air racing Ballooning Base jumping Gliding Hang-gliding Parachuting Paragliding Pigeon racing Skydiving Animal Angling – bass fishing, big-game fishing, course fishing, fly fishing, ice fishing, rock fishing, sea fishing. Bullfighting Dog sports – agility, bikejoring, canicross, carting, coursing, disc dog, dog hiking, earthdog trials, field trials, flyball, greyhound racing, lure coursing, musical freestyle, mushing, obedience training, polka, rally obedience, scootering, sled dog racing, skijoring, sheepdog trials, tracking trials, weight pulling. Elephant polo Equestrianism – buzkashi, Chilean rodeo, dressage, harness racing, horse racing, quarterhorse racing, pato, polo, rodeo, steeplechase, thoroughbred racing, western pleasure, Pigeon racing Athletics Jumping – high jump, long jump, pole vault, triple jump. Throwing – atlatl (spear throwing), discus, hammer throw, javelin, shot putt. Walking – hiking, hill walking, orienteering, walking. Combat Aikido (Japanese martial art) Arnis (Filipino martial art) Baguazhang (Chinese martial art) Bando (Burmese self defence) Boxing Brazilian jiu-jitsu Capoeira (Brazilian martial art) Chess boxing Drunken boxing (Chinese martial art) Fencing Glima (Icelandic folk wrestling) Gongfu (Chinese martial art) Gouren (French wrestling) Hapkido (Korean martial art) Iaido (Japanese martial art) Inbuan (Mizo wrestling) Judo (Japanese martial art) Ju-jitsu (Japanese martial art) Karate (Japanese martial art) – goko ryu, kenpo, kyokushin, shito ryu, shotokan, wado ryu. Kempo (Japanese martial art) Kendo (Japanese martial art of fencing) Kickboxing – adithada (Indian), lethwei (Burmese), pradal serey (Khmer), muay thai (Thai), full contact karate, savate (French), sanshou/ sanda (Chinese), shoot boxing (Japanese), yaw-yan (Filipino) Krav Maga (Israeli self defence) Kung-fu (Chinese martial art) Kuresh (Russian wrestling) Mixed martial arts Mongolian wrestling Mukna (Bengali wrestling) Muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) Naginata-do (Japanese martial art) Oil wrestling/ Yağlı Güreş (Turkish) Paintball Pencak silat (Southeast Asian martial art) Pradal serey (Khmer kickboxing) Professional wrestling Silat (Southeast Asian martial art) Sambo (Russian martial art) Savate (French kickboxing) Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) Shuai jiao (Chinese wrestling) Ssirum (Korean wrestling) Sumo (Japanese martial art) Taekwondo (Korean martial art) Tai chi chuan (Chinese martial art) Taido (Japanese martial art) Taijiquan (Chinese martial art) Taijutsu (Japanese martial art) Tang soo do (Korean martial art) Tendo-ryu (Japanese martial art) Thai boxing Wing chun (Chinese martial art) Wrestling Wushu (Chinese martial art) Xingiquan (Chinese martial art) Yağlı Güreş/ oil wrestling (Turkish) Court non-racquet American handball Basketball Fives Gaelic handball Jai alai Netball Pelota Cycling Bicycle polo BMX racing Cyclo-cross Mountain biking Mountain unicycling Road bike racing Track cycling Unicycle trials Endurance Cycling Inline speed skating Rowing Running Swimming Triathlon Ultramarathon Entertainment Bossaball (mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira (Brazilian martial art) Dance Marching band Professional wrestling Gymnastics Acrobatics – adagio, acrobalance, aerial tissue, bossaball (mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira (Brazilian martial art), contortion, corde lisse, fire-breathing, juggling, parkour, pole climbing, salto del pastor, Spanish web, springboard diving, tower diving, trampolining, trapeze, tumbong, wire-walking, wushu. Aerobics Artistic – balance beam, floor, floor exercise, horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, still rings, uneven bars, vault. Bossaball (mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira (Brazilian martial art) Rhythmic – ball, clubs, hoop, ribbon, rope Miscellaneous Aggressive skating BASE jumping Bossaball (mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira (Brazilian martial art) Bungee jumping Canyoning Combat robot Competitive eating Flying disc Footbag/ hacky sack Ga-ga (Israeli dodgeball) Haggis hurling Kabaddi (breath-holding, chanting South Asian tag) Kite landboarding Mountainboarding Parkour (moving from A-B as quickly and efficiently as possible, using only the human body) Ringo (Polish, throwing a rubber ring back and forth over a net) Rock climbing Skateboarding Tetherball (swingball) Zorbing (rolling down a hill inside a PVC double-hulled orb) Motor Formula 1 Indycar racing Motor racing Motorbike racing Motorcross Speedboat racing Stock car racing Multiple Biathlon – Cross-country skiing, rifle-shooting Decathlon – 100m sprint, long jump, shot putt, high jump, 400m run, 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 1500m race. Modern pentathlon - épée fencing, pistol shooting, 200m freestyle swimming, show-jumping on horseback, cross-country run. Triathlon – swimming, running, cycling. Racquet Badminton Ball badminton Frontenis (tennis played on tiny court with double-stringed racquet and tiny ball) Jai alai (fast paced ball game where players wear a ‘basket’-glove and hurl a ball against one of 3 walls, the opponent has to catch and return the ball) Matkot (Israeli beach paddleball) Pelota (Spanish ballgame) Pickleball (mix of badminton, tennis and ping-pong) Platform tennis (deck tennis) Pington (similar to badminton) Racquetball Racquets Real tennis Speed-o-ball (fast-paced game similar to volleyball and basketball) Squash Squash tennis (American squash) Stické (similar to lawn tennis) Table tennis Tennis Tennis polo (polo played with tennis racquets) Xare (form of pelota) Skating Artistic roller skating Bandy (ancestor of ice hockey) Ice hockey Ice skating Inline speed skating Inline hockey Ringette (ring passing game similar to ice hockey) Rink hockey Skateboarding Freestyle slalom skating Roller derby Roller hockey Roller skating Short track speed skating Skater hockey Speed skating Synchronized skating Skiing/ snowboard Alpine skiing Backcountry skiing Biathlon Broomball (similar to ice hockey, played with brooms and balls, players wear shoes) Cross country skiing Freestyle skiing Grass skiing Nordic combined Roller skiing Skibob (bicycle frame with skis not wheels) Ski flying Skijoring (dog-pulled skiing) Ski jumping Ski touring Speed skiing Telemark skiing Snowboarding Snowshoeing Freestyle snowboarding Extreme snowboarding Sled Bobsleigh Luge Skeleton (head-first, downhill sled for 1 person) Street luge Toboggan Wok racing (modified woks that run down a bobsled track, for 1 or 4 persons) Strength Bodybuilding Caber tossing Powerlifting Tug of war Weightlifting Table Air hockey Billiards – billiards, bar billiards, carambole billiard, pool, snooker. Chess Dominoes Mahjong Scrabble Table football Target Archery – kyudo Atlatl (spear throwing) Billiard sports Bocce/ Boules Boccia (Paralympic sport similar to bocce) Bowling – candle-pin, crown green, duckpin, feather, five-pin, lawn, nine-pin, ten-pin Calva (Spanish target hitting) Croquet Curling Darts Golf Disc golf (flying disc throwing into metal-chained basket) Speed golf Golfcross (hitting an oval ball into a suspended goal net) Horseshoes Laser tag Lawn bowls Marbles Matball (American school game similar to kickball) Pall mall (ancestor of croquet) Petanque (boules) Shooting Skittles Trugo (similar to croquet, but with rubber ring) Team Airsoft (similar to paintball but with BB guns!) American football Australian rules football Bandy (ancestor of ice hockey) Baseball Basketball Beach handball Beach rugby Beach soccer Beach volleyball Bossaball (mix of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira (Brazilian martial art) Box/ indoor lacrosse Basque pelota (Spanish ballgame) Broomball (similar to ice hockey, played with brooms and balls, players wear shoes) Camogie (Irish women’s hurling) Canadian football Canoe polo Cricket Curling Danball (similar to road hockey) Dodgeball Eton wall game (mix of rugby union and football) Field hockey Fistball (similar to volleyball) Floorball (plastic hockey) Football (soccer) Footvolley (mix of football and volleyball) Futsal (indoor football) Gaelic football Gaelic handball Gateball (similar to croquet) Goalball (for blind athletes, aim is to throw a ball embedded with bells into the goal) Handball Harrow football Hornussen (Swiss cross between golf and baseball) Hurling Ice hockey Inline hockey Kabaddi (breath-holding, chanting South Asian tag) Kickball (similar to baseball) Korfball (similar to netball) Lacrosse Laser tag Mesoamerican ballgame Netball Paintball Pesäpallo (Finnish baseball) Petanque (Boules) Polo Quidditch Ringette (ring passing game similar to ice hockey) Rink hockey Road hockey Roller hockey Rounders Rowing Rugby league Rugby union Sepak Takraw (Southeast Asian kick volleyball) Shinty (Gaelic sport similar to hockey and hurling) Skater hockey Skittles Slamball (similar to basketball) Soccer Softball (similar to baseball) Speedway racing Speedball (fast-paced game similar to volleyball and basketball) Spongee polo (padded-stick indoor field hockey) Tennis polo Tennis Tchoukball (ball is thrown at an angled trampoline) Throwball (Asian volleyball) Ultimate football Ultimate Frisbee Underwater football Underwater hockey Underwater rugby Volleyball Viperball (faster-paced tennis polo) Wallyball (rebound volleyball) Water polo Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair rugby Wiffleball (plastic baseball) Water Barefoot waterskiing Boating Bodyboarding Canoe polo Canoeing Diving Dragon boat racing Fishing Free-diving Hydroplane racing Jet sprint boat racing Kayaking Kite surfing (pulled by kite whilst on surfboard) Motor boating Offshore power racing Outrigger canoe racing Parasailing Rafting Rescue swimming Rowing Sailing Scuba diving Skimboarding (short board skimmed along waters edge and ridden as waves lap the shoreline) Skurfing (boat dragged surfboard) Snorkeling Surf lifesaving Surfing Swimming Synchronized diving Synchronized swimming Tubing (innertube dragged behind boat) Underwater hockey Underwater rugby Wake skating Wakeboarding (similar to water skiing but with one board) Water basketball Water polo Water skiing Windsurfing Yachting |
LOL, I can't pronounce half of those.
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Think I may have missed one or two......:wide-eyed :rotfl: :rotfl:
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