# List of sports

The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category.
According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games.

## Acrobatic arts

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

## Air sports

* Aerobatics
* Air racing
** Cluster ballooning
** Hopper ballooning
** Drone racing
* 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

## Athletics
### Jumping

* Triple jump
* Long jump
* High jump
* Pole vault

### Throwing

* Boomerang
* Club throw
* Discus
* Hammer throw
* Javelin
* Shot put

### Running

* 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
** Racewalking
** Skyrunning
* Sprint
* Hurdles
** Steeplechase

### Combined

* Decathlon
* Heptathlon
* Icosathlon
* Pentathlon
* Tetradecathlon

## Ball games
### Bat-and-ball games (safe haven games)

Games in which the objetive of offensive team is to reach safe havens to score runs, and of the defense to prevent it.
| Baseball like (roundball) Baseball Blind baseball Beep baseball Chapitas Corkball – four bases (no base-running) Fuzzball (sport) Extreme Baseball Half-rubber Historic Knickerbocker Rules The Massachusetts Game – four bases Town ball – variable Vintage base ball Indian Ball Over-the-line – qv No use of bat Baseball5 Bolita de cancha Kickball Matball Cuatro esquinas Hotbox Pelotica de goma Punchball Stoop ball Wireball Sandlot ball Snow baseball Softball 16-inch softball Fast-pitch softball Stickball – variable Vitilla - three bases Tee-ball Wiffleball Brännboll – four bases British baseball (Pêl-Fas) – four posts Elle Pesäpallo – four bases Rap7 ball Rounders – four bases or posts GAA rounders Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se) Thèque | Cricket like Bete-ombro Cricket – two creases Backyard, Beach and Street cricket Blind cricket Club cricket Deaf cricket French cricket Ice cricket Indoor cricket Indoor cricket (UK variant) Kilikiti Kwik cricket Last man stands cricket Leg cricket (no use of bat) Limited overs cricket One Day International List A cricket Short form cricket 100-ball cricket T10 cricket Twenty20 Twenty20 International Women cricket One-armed versus one-legged cricket Single wicket/Double wicket Softball cricket Table Cricket Tape ball cricket Tennis ball cricket Test cricket First-class cricket Trobriand cricket Windball cricket Crocker Plaquita Stoolball – two stools Vigoro – two wickets Wicket | Longball Danish longball Lapta – two salos (bases) Oină Palant Schlagball Other games Bat and trap Gillidanda Old cat – variable Pärk |

### Billiards
#### Cue sports

* Carom billiards
** Straight rail
** Balkline
** One-cushion carom
** Three-cushion billiards
** Five-pins
** Four-ball
** Artistic billiards
* Novuss (and cued forms of carrom)
* Pool
** Eight-ball
** Blackball (a.k.a. British eight-ball pool)
** Nine-ball
** Straight pool (14.1 continuous)
** One-pocket
** Three-ball
** Seven-ball
** Ten-ball
** Rotation
** Baseball pocket billiards
** Cribbage (pool)
** Bank pool
** Artistic pool
** Trick shot competition
** Speed pool
** Bowlliards
** Chicago
** Kelly pool
** Cutthroat
** Killer
** Russian pyramid
* Snooker
** Sinuca brasileira
** Six-red snooker
** Snooker plus
* Hybrid carom–pocket games
** English billiards
** Bottle pool
** Cowboy
* Obstacle variations
** Bagatelle
** Bar billiards
** Bumper pool
* Table Sports
** Foosball

#### Ground billiards

* Croquet
** Roque
* Gateball
* Trucco
* Woodball

### Boules sports

Games which the objective is to throw, roll or slide balls as closely as possible to a jack or target.
* Bocce
* Bocce volo
* Boccia
* Bolas criollas
* Boules
* Bowls a.k.a. lawn bowls
* Curling
** Wheelchair curling
* Jeu provençal (boule lyonnaise)
* Marbles
* Pétanque
* Raffa
* Shuffleboard

### Bowling

* Skittles
* Candlepin bowling
* Duckpin bowling
* Five-pin bowling
* Nine-pin bowling
* Ten-pin bowling
* Trick bowling
* Turkey bowling

### Dodgeball family

* Dandy shandy
* Gaga
* Maram Pitti
* Prisonball
* Seven stones
* Spud

### Golf

Sports which score is counted in reference to par
* Beach golf
* Clock golf
* Codeball
* Dart golf
* Disc golf
* Footgolf
* Fungo golf
* 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

### Invasion games

Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.

#### Basketball family

* Basketball
** 3x3 basketball
** Beach basketball
** Biddy Basketball
** Deaf basketball
** Donkey basketball
** Hotshot
** One-on-one
** Piterbasket
** Pop-A-Shot
** Rezball
** Six-on-six basketball
** Slamball
** Streetball
** Super Shot
** Twenty-one
** Unicycle basketball
** Water basketball
** Wheelchair basketball
* Canoe polo
* Cestoball
* Dueball
* Flickerball
* Horseball
* Korfball
** Beach korfball
* Netball
** Fast5 netball
** Indoor netball
** Walking netball
* Pato
* Ringball

#### Football family
##### Historical

* Ancient games
** Aqsaqtuk
** Chinlone
** Cuju
** Episkyros
** Harpastum
** Kemari
** Ki-o-rahi
** Marn Grook
** Pasuckuakohowog
** Phaininda
** Tepuk
** Woggabaliri
** Yubi lakpi
* Medieval football
** Ba game
** Bottle-kicking
** Caid
** Calcio Fiorentino
** Camping (game)
** Cnapan
** Cornish hurling
** Haxey Hood
** Knattleikr
** La soule
** Lelo burti
** Mob football
** Shrove Tuesday games
*** Atherstone Ball Game
*** Royal Shrovetide Football
*** Scoring the Hales
*** Sedgefield Ball Game
*** Shrove Tuesday Football Ceremony of the Purbeck Marblers
** Uppies and Downies
* English school games
** Eton College
*** Field game
*** Wall game
** Harrow football
** Winchester College football

##### Modern codes

* Association football
** Circle rules football
** Jorkyball
** Paralympic football
*** Amputee football
*** Blind football
*** CP football
*** Powerchair Football
*** Wheelchair soccer
** Reduced variants
*** Beach soccer
*** Crab soccer
*** Fireball
*** Five-a-side football
*** Futsal
*** Ice football
*** Indoor soccer
*** Masters Football
*** Minifootball
*** Papi fut
*** Roller soccer
*** Rush goalie
*** Seven-a-side football
**** Kings League
*** Socca
*** Walking football
** Street football
*** Keepie uppie
**** Freestyle football
**** Hacky sack
** Swamp football
** Three sided football
*** Omegaball
* Australian football
** AFLX
** Auskick
** Footy 9s
** Kick-to-kick
** Lightning football
** Metro footy
** Nine-a-side footy
** Rec footy (no tackle allowed)
** Women's Australian rules football
* Gaelic football
** Ladies' Gaelic football
* Gridiron football
** American football
*** non tackle variants
**** Flag football
**** Touch football
*** Reduced variants
**** Eight-man football
**** Arena football
**** Nine-man football
**** Six-man football
*** Sprint football
*** Street football (American)
*** Unicycle football
*** Wheelchair football
*** XFL rules football (2001, 2020)
** Canadian football
** Underwater football
* Rugby football
** Rugby league
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Non tackle variants
**** American flag rugby
**** League tag
**** OzTag
**** Tag rugby
**** Touch football
*** Reduced variants
**** Rugby league nines
**** Rugby league sevens
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union
*** Beach rugby
*** Mini rugby
*** Non tackle variants
**** Tag rugby
**** Touch rugby
*** Reduced variants
**** Rugby sevens
***** Rugby X
**** Rugby tens
*** Snow rugby
** Underwater rugby
** Wheelchair rugby
* Hybrid codes
** Austus
** Boston game
** Forceback
** International rules football
** Samoa rules
** Speedball
** Swedish football
** Universal football
** Volata

#### Handball family

* Czech handball
* Field handball
** Indoor handball
*** Beach handball
*** Wheelchair handball
* Rollball
* Visual impaired
** Goalball
** Torball
* Water polo

#### Stick and ball family
##### Hockey

* Traditional/historic
** Bando
** Beikou
** Chueca
** Khong kangjei
** Palin
** Pelota purépecha
* Field hockey
** Beach hockey
** Hockey5s
** Hockey 9s
** Indoor hockey
** Minkey
* Floor hockey
** Ball hockey
** Floorball
* Foot hockey
* Ice skates
** Bandy
*** Rink bandy
** Ice hockey
*** Pond hockey
*** Shinny
*** Sledge hockey
** Ringette
*** Gym ringette
** Rinkball
* On ice sans skates
** Broomball
*** Moscow broomball
** Spongee
* Power hockey
* Ring-goal
* Roller hockey
** Quad hockey
** Inline hockey
*** Inline skater hockey
** Inline sledge hockey
* Rossall Hockey
* Street hockey
* Underwater
** Underwater hockey
** Underwater ice hockey
* Unicycle hockey

##### Hurling and shinty

* Cammag
* Hurling
** Camogie
* Shinty
* Composite rules shinty-hurling
** Iomain

##### Lacrosse

* Indigenous North American stickball
* Field lacrosse
** Box lacrosse
** Women's lacrosse
** Lacrosse sixes
** Intercrosse
* Polocrosse

##### Polo

* Sagol kāngjei
* Arena polo
** Beach polo
* Bicycle polo
* Cowboy polo
* Elephant polo
* Hobby horse polo
* Segway polo
* Snow polo
* Yak polo

#### Other goal sports

* Anejodi
** Angleball
* Autoball
* Cycleball
* Elephant football
* Foobaskill
* Kronum
* Home Ball
* Motoball
* Pearl ball
* Pushball
* Quidditch
* Tennis polo
* Treibball
* Whirlyball

### Net and wall games

Sports when players/teams score whenever the opponent fails to return validly the possesion of ball/bird back.
Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely the body:
* Badminton
* Ball badminton
* Fistball
* Footbag net
* Football tennis
* Footvolley
* Headis
* Hooverball
* Jianzi
* Jokgu
* Loofball
* Miniten
* Peteca
* Pickleball
* Rocball
* Sepak takraw
* Sipa
* Table tennis
** Hardbat
** Para table tennis
* Tambourelli
* Te ano
* Tennikoit
* Tennis
** Beach tennis
** Paddle tennis
** Platform tennis
** Wheelchair tennis
* Teqball
* Throwball
* Volleyball
** 9-man
** Beach volleyball
** Biribol
** Bossaball
** Crossnet
** Ecuavolley
** Newcomb ball
** Sitting volleyball
** Snow volleyball
** Wallyball
** Water volleyball
Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball against walls or any rebounding surface using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
* 360ball
* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
** Frontenis
** Jai alai
* Butts Up
* Chinese handball
* Fives
* Four square
* Gaelic handball
* Kin-Ball
* One-wall handball
* Patball
* Rackets
* Racquetball
* Roundnet
* Squash
** Squash tennis
* Suicide (game)
* Tchoukball
* Valencian frontó
* Wallball
Games that use both walls and net
* Padbol
* Padel
* Real Tennis
* Table squash
* Wallyball

#### Pilota family

* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
** Jai alai
* Downball
* Fives
** Eton fives
** Rugby fives
* Frisian handball
* Four square or FS Handball
* Gaelic handball
* Gain-ground
** Balle à la main
** Ballon au poing
** International game
* Jeu de paume
** Longue paume
* Palla
* Pallone
** Tamburello
*** Tambourelli
* 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
** Wheelchair tennis
* Touchtennis

##### Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle

* Basque pelota
* Beach tennis
* Downside ball game
* Four wall paddleball
* Hanetsuki
* Jombola
* Matkot
* Miniten
* One wall paddleball
* Paddle ball
* Paddle tennis
* Padel
* Paleta frontón
* Pan Pong
* Pelota mixteca
* Pickleball
* Platform tennis
* Sphairee
* Stoolball
* Table squash
* Table tennis (Ping Pong)
** Para table tennis

### Other ball sports

* Hornussen
* Yukigassen

## Board sports

Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
* Hoverboarding
* Skateboarding
** Casterboarding
** Fingerboarding
*** Fingerbmx-ing
*** Fingersnowboarding
*** Finger surfboarding
*** Handboarding
** Freeboard (skateboard)
** Freeskating
** Longboarding
** Snakeboarding
** Streetboarding
* Scootering
* Skysurfing
* Skwal
* Streetluge
* Snowboarding
** Mountainboarding
** Para-snowboarding
** Sandboarding
** Snowkiting
** Snowskating
* Surfing
** Bodyboarding
** Dog surfing
** Kiteboarding
** Riverboarding
** Skimboarding
** Standup paddleboarding
** Wakesurfing
** Windsurfing
*** Land windsurfing
* Wakeboarding
** Kneeboarding
* Paddleboarding

## Climbing

* Competition climbing
** Competition bouldering
** Competition ice climbing
** Competition lead climbing
** Competition speed climbing
* Ice climbing
** Dry-tooling
** Mixed climbing
* Mountaineering
** Alpine climbing
** Expedition climbing
* Paraclimbing
* 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

## Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts

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

### Grappling

* Aiki-jūjutsu
* Aikido
* Arm Wrestling
* Jujutsu
* Judo
* Brazilian jiu-jitsu
* Sambo (martial art)
* Sumo
* Wrestling
* Amateur wrestling
** Greco-Roman wrestling
** Freestyle wrestling
* Folk wrestling
** Boli Khela
** Cornish wrestling
** Devon wrestling
** Dumog
** Glima
** Gouren
** Kurash
** Lancashire wrestling
** Malla-yuddha
** Mongolian wrestling
** Pehlwani
** Schwingen
** Shuai jiao
** Ssireum
** Varzesh-e Pahlavani
** Yağlı Güreş
* Catch wrestling
* Collar-and-elbow
* Collegiate wrestling
* Greek wrestling
* Mud wrestling
* Professional wrestling

### Striking

* Bajiquan
* Bare knuckle boxing
* Bokator
* Boxing
* Capoeira
* Chess boxing
* Choi Kwang-Do
* Fujian White Crane
* Karate
* Kenpō
* Kickboxing
* Lethwei
* Muay Thai
* Pradal serey
* Savate
* Shaolin kung fu
* Shin-kicking
* Sikaran
* Silat
* Subak
* Taekkyeon
* Taekwondo
* Taidō
* Tang Soo Do
* Vovinam
* Wing Chun

### Mixed or hybrid

* American Kenpo
* Baguazhang
* Bando
* Bartitsu
* Bujinkan
* Hapkido
* Chun Kuk Do
* Hwa Rang Do
* Jeet Kune Do
* Kajukenbo
* Kalaripayattu
* Krav Maga
* Kuk Sool Won
* Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
* Mixed martial arts
* Northern Praying Mantis
* Ninjutsu
* Pankration
* Pencak Silat
* Sanda
* Shidōkan Karate
* Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
* Shooto
* Shoot boxing
* Shootfighting
* Shorinji Kempo
* Systema
* Tai chi
* Unifight
* Vajra-mushti
* Vale tudo
* Xingyiquan
* Zen Bu Kan Kempo

### Weapons and kicking

* Battōjutsu
* Bōjutsu
* Boffer fighting
* Buhurt
* Canne de combat
* Cardboard Tube Fighting
* Eskrima
* Egyptian stick fencing
* Fencing
* Gatka
* Historical European martial arts
* Hojōjutsu
* Iaido
* 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
## Flying disc sports

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

## Gymnastics

* Acrobatic gymnastics
* Aerial hoop
* Aerial silks
* Aerobic gymnastics
* Artistic gymnastics
** Only men
*** High bar
*** Parallel bars
*** Pommel horse
*** Still rings
** Only women
*** Balance beam
*** Uneven bars
** Both men and women
*** Floor
*** Vault
* Calisthenics
* Competitive yoga
* Juggling
* Mallakhamba
* Parkour
* Pole dance
* Rhythmic gymnastics
** Ball
** Clubs
** Hoop
** Ribbon
** Rope
* Rope jumping
* Rope climbing
* Slacklining
* Baton twirling
* Trampolining
* Trapeze
** Flying trapeze
** Static trapeze
* Tumbling
* Wheel gymnastics

## Kite sports

* Hang gliding
* Kite buggy
* Kite fighting
* Kite landboarding
* Kitesurfing
* Parasailing
* Snowkiting
* Sport kite (Stunt kite)

## Mixed discipline

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
* Laser-run
* Modern pentathlon
* Pentathlon
* Racketlon
* Tetrathlon
* Triathle
* Triathlon

## Motorsports

Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles

### Motorboat racing

* Drag boat racing
* F1 powerboat racing
* Hydroplane racing
* Jet sprint boat racing
* Offshore powerboat racing
* Personal watercraft

### Terrestrial vehicles
#### Automobile

* Autoball
* Autocross (a.k.a. Slalom)
* Autograss
* Banger racing
* Board track racing
* Demolition derby
* Desert racing
* Dirt track racing
* Drag racing
* Drifting
* Endurance racing
* Folkrace
* Formula racing
* Formula Libre
* Formula Student
* Hillclimbing
* Baseball racing
* Kart racing
* Land speed records
* Lawn mower racing
* Legends car racing
* Midget car racing
* Monster truck
* Mud bogging
* Off-road racing
* Pickup truck racing
* Production car racing
* Race of Champions
* Rally raid
* Rallycross
* Rallying
* Regularity rally
* Road racing
* Short track motor racing
* Sports car racing
* Sprint car racing
* Street racing
* Stock car racing
* Time attack
* Tractor pulling
* Tractor race
* Touring car racing
* Truck racing
* Vintage racing
* Wheelstand competition

#### Motorcycle

* Auto Race
* Board track racing
* Cross-country rally
* Endurance racing
* Enduro
* Freestyle motocross
* Grand Prix motorcycle racing
* Grasstrack
* Hillclimbing
* Ice speedway
* Indoor enduro
* Motoball
* Motocross
* Motorcycle drag racing
* Motorcycle speedway
* Off-roading
* Rally raid
* Road racing
* Stunt riding
* Superbike racing
* Supercross
* Supermoto
* Supersport racing
* Sidecar racing
* Track racing
* Trial
* TT racing
* Free-style moto

#### Others

* All-terrain vehicle competition
* Electric unicycle race
* Ice racing
* Rickshaw run
* Snowmobile skipping
* Whirlyball

## Orienteering

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

## Parkour/Freerunning

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

## Pedal vehicle

Human-powered vehicles propelled by pedals

### Cycling

Sports using bicycles, quadracycles, tricycles or unicycles.

#### Bicycle

* Artistic cycling
* BMX
* Cycle ball
* Cycle polo
** Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Cycle speedway
* Cyclo-cross
* Dirt jumping
* Downhill mountain biking
* Freestyle BMX
* Freestyle fixed gear
* Bike Trials
* Mountain biking
* Road bicycle racing
* Track cycling
* Underwater cycling

#### Quadracycle

* Pedal car racing

#### Tricycle

* Handcycle
* Wheelchair racing

#### Unicycle

* Icetrack cycling
* Mountain unicycling
* Street unicycling
* Unicycling
* Unicycle basketball
* Unicycle hockey
* Unicycle trials

### Watercraft

* Pedal boat racing

## Racing

* Running
** Marathon
** Sprint
** Mascot race
* Skating
** Inline speed skating
** Speed skating
*** Ice cross downhill

## Shooting sports
### Archery

* Archery
* Dartchery
* Field archery
* Flight archery
* Gungdo
* Indoor archery
* Kyūdō
* Match crossbow
* Mounted archery
* Popinjay
* Run archery
* Target archery

### Gun sports

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
* shoot the chicken

#### Athletic hybrid

* Air baseball
* Biathlon
* Bowling
* Field running
* Ice baseball
* Laser-run
* Military patrol
* Modern pentathlon
* Moose biathlon
* Orienteering shooting
* Pistol skiing
* Ski field shooting
* Summer biathlon
* Target sprint
* Triathle
* Underwater target shooting
* Water baseball

#### Skirmish

* Airsoft
* Laser tag
* Paintball

## Snow sports
### Skiing

* Alpine skiing
** Downhill
** Super-G
** Giant slalom
** Slalom
** Alpine skiing combined
** Freestyle skiing
*** Aerials
*** Moguls
*** Halfpipe
*** Slopestyle
*** Ski cross
*** Ski ballet
** Speed skiing
* Monoski
* Nordic skiing
** Cross-country skiing
** Ski jumping
** Nordic combined
** Telemark skiing
* Para-alpine skiing
* Ice sledge racing
* Ski mountaineering
* Ski touring
* Skijoring
* Teleboard

### Sled sports

* Bobsleigh
* Jack jumping
* Luge
* Shovel racing
* Skibobbing
* Skeleton
* Snow tubing
* Toboggan

## Stacking

* Card stacking
* Dice stacking
* Jenga
* Sport stacking

## Strength sports

* Strongman
* Arm Wrestling
* Thumb war
* Toe Wrestling
* Powerlifting
* Weightlifting
* Wrestling

## Tag games

* 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
* Seven stones
* Surr
* Tag
* World Chase Tag

## Walking

* Hiking
** Backpacking (hiking)
** Off-trail hiking
** Naked hiking
* Racewalking
* Walking

## Water sports

These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).

### Paddling sports
#### 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
* Standup paddleboarding

### Sailing

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

### 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
* Snorkeling
* Sport diving (sport)
* Underwater orienteering
* Underwater photography (sport)
* Underwater target shooting

### Diving

* Cliff jumping
* Diving

## Weightlifting

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

## Sports involving animals
### Dog sports

Sports in which dogs participate.

### Equestrian sports

Sports using a horse.
* Buzkashi
* Barrel racing
* Campdrafting
* Cirit
* Charreada
* Chilean rodeo
* Chuckwagon racing
* Cross country
* Cutting
* Dressage
* Endurance riding
* English pleasure
* Equitation
* Eventing
* Equestrian vaulting
* Gymkhana
* Harness racing
* Hobby horse polo
* Trick riding
* Horse racing
* Horse polo, or polo
* Horseball
* Jineteada gaucha
* Jousting
* Mounted games
* Mounted archery
* Pato
* Pleasure driving
* Reining
* Rodeo
* Show hunter (British)
* Show jumping
* Steeplechase
* Sur-papakh
* Team penning
* Tent pegging
* Western pleasure

### 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.
* Barrel racing
* Bronc riding
** Saddle Bronc Riding
** Bareback Bronc Riding
* Bull riding
** Miniature Bull Riding
* Goat tying
* Pole bending
* Roping
** Breakaway Roping
** Tie-down Roping
** Team roping
** Steer roping
* Steer riding
* Steer wrestling

### Others

* Bull-leaping
* Camel racing
* Elephant
** Elephant football
** Elephant polo
* Yak polo

## Mind sports

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

### Combination puzzle

* Speedcubing
** Tetrahedron
*** Pyraminx
*** Pyramorphix
** Cube
*** 2x2x2
*** 3x3x3
**** 3x3x3 One-Handed
*** 4x4x4
*** 5×5×5
*** 6×6×6
*** 7×7×7
*** Skewb
*** Square-1
** Skewb Diamond (octahedron)
** Dodecahedron
*** Megaminx
*** Pyraminx Crystal
*** Skewb Ultimate
** Dogic (icosahedron)
** Other
*** Rubik's Clock

### 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
* Speedrunning
* Sports video game
* Third-person shooter
* Tile-matching video game
* Virtual reality game

### Strategy board games

* Chaturanga
** Arimaa
** Chess
*** Atomic chess
*** Bughouse chess
*** Chess960 (also known as Fischer Random Chess)
*** Fast chess
*** Losing chess
** Janggi
** Shōgi
** Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
* Checkers
** International
** Canadian
** English
** Turkish
* Chinese checkers
* Diplomacy
* Dominoes
* Go
* Go-Moku
* Ludo
* Mahjong
* Mancala
* Monopoly
* Reversi
* Risk
* Scrabble
* Sholo Guti
* Sogo (Score four)
* Stratego
* Sudoku
* Tables games
** Backgammon
** Jacquet
* Yut

### Other

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

## Competitive model sports

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

### Remote control

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

## Overlapping sports

Sports falling into two or more categories.
* Chess boxing
* Phygital sport

## Different classification

Potentially other sports are listed here.

### Air sports

* Banzai skydiving
* Bungee jumping
* Hot air ballooning
* Indoor skydiving

### Beach sports

Versions of sports played on sand
* Beach golf
* Beach handball
* Beach soccer
* Beach tennis
* Beach volleyball
* Beach wrestling

### Compromise rules

* Composite rules shinty–hurling
** Iomain
* International game
* International rules football
* One-wall handball

### 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
* Woodchopping

### Ice sports

* Bandy
** Rink bandy
* Barrel jumping
* Bobsleigh
* Broomball
* Crokicurl
* Curling
* Figure skating
** Four skating
** Ice dancing
** Ice theatre
** Pair skating
** Single skating
** Synchronized skating
* Ice cross downhill
* Ice football
* Ice hockey
** Sledge hockey
** Spongee
* Ice stock sport
** Ice fishing
* Icetrack cycling
* Ice yachting
* Luge
* Moscow broomball
* Ringette
* Skeleton
* Speed skating
** Long-track speed skating
** Short-track speed skating

### Marker sports

* Airsoft
* Archery
* Paintball
* Darts

### 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

### Snow sports

* Boardercross
* Freestyle snowboarding
* Snowboarding
* Ski flying
* Skibob
* Snowshoe running
* Snow volleyball
* Skiboarding

### Street sports

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

### 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 of war
* Woodchopping
* Wood splitting
* Zourkhaneh
* Calisthenics

### Tabletop games

* Backgammon
* Beer pong
* Carrom
* Carrom Nok Hockey
* Chaturanga and descendants
* Connect Four
* Crokinole
* Cue sports (a.k.a. Billiards)
* Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
* Dominoes
* Mahjong
* Paper football
* Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
* Scrabble
* Tabletop sports
** Air hockey
** Cue sports
** Headis
** Pinball
** Table Cricket
** Table hockey
** Table Shuffleboard/Sling Puck
** Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
** Tabletop football
*** Button football
*** Sports table football
*** Subbuteo
*** Table football
** Teqball
* Yahtzee

### Target sports

Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
* Angleball
* Archery
* Axe throwing
* Boules
* Bowling
* Calva
* Cornhole
* Croquet
* Cue sports
* Curling
* Darts
* Golf
* Horseshoes (horseshoe throwing)
* Jukskei
* KanJam
* Knife throwing
* Kubb
* Lawn darts
* Matball
* Mölkky
* Pall mall
* Peashooter (toy)
* Pitch and putt
* Ring-goal
* Ring toss
* Shooting
* Shuffleboard
* Skittles
* Skee ball
* Snowball fight
* Tejo
* Trugo
* Varpa
* Water balloon

### Team sports

Sports that involve teams.
* Angleball
* Basketball family
* Basque pelota
* Bat and ball games
* Bowling
* Bunnock
* Camogie
* Dodgeball
* Football family
* Gateball
* Handball
* Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Hockey family
* Horseshoe
* Hurling
* Kickball
* Kin-Ball
* Lacrosse
* Loofball
* Mesoamerican ballgame
* Motoball
* Newcomb ball
* Paintball
* Polo
* Quidditch
* Ringette
* Roller derby
* Rowing
* Sepak takraw
* Tchoukball
* Ultimate
* Volleyball
* Whirlyball
* Woodsman
* Yukigassen

### Wheelchair sports

Para-versions of sports played using wheelchairs
* Wheelchair basketball
* Wheelchair fencing
* Wheelchair handball
* Wheelchair pickleball
* Wheelchair rugby
* Wheelchair rugby league
* Wheelchair tennis

### 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
* Hunger Games
* Whack-bat
* Blitzball
* Fictional Martial Arts

## Miscellaneous sports

* Air guitar
* Arctic sports
* Cheese rolling
* Chess boxing
* Chicken fight
* Competitive eating
* Competitive math
* Conker fighting
* Cook-off
* Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake
* Drum and bugle corps
* Dwyle Flonking (sport)
* Earthball
* Egg and spoon race
* Extreme ironing
* Extreme Pogo
* Ferret legging
* Fierljeppen
* Footbag (hacky sack)
* Flair bartending
* Guyball
* Gurning
* Haggis hurling
* Hopscotch
* Idiotarod
* Jegichagi
* Jeopardy!
* Jump rope
** Double Dutch
* Lawn mower racing
* Lumberjack sports
** Aizkolaritza
** Axe throwing
** Logrolling
** Wood chopping
** Wood splitting
* Marching
* Marching band
* Milk chugging
* Object spinning
** Padiddling
** Plate spinning
** Top
* Patball
* Pea shooting
* Quiz Bowl
* Redneck Games
* Ring-goal
* Ringette
* Sack race
* Soap shoes
* Stihl Timbersports Series
* Tennikoit
* Tetherball
* Three-legged race
* Ultimate Tazer Ball
* Wallball
* Wheel of Fortune
* Wife-carrying
* Woodsman
* Yoyoing