Here's a list of sports for you, with explanations where necessary:
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
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