page_title: Winter sports
section_title: Skiing
hierarchical_section_title: Winter sports / List of winter sports / Skiing
caption_attribution_description: Skier carving a turn off piste
context_page_description: Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in cold areas during winter, but artificial snow and artificial ice allow more flexibility. Artificial ice can be used to provide ice rinks for ice skating, ice hockey, and bandy in a milder climate.
  Common individual sports include cross-country skiing, alpine skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, speed skating, figure skating, luge, skeleton, bobsleigh, ski orienteering and snowmobiling. Common team sports include ice hockey, curling, and bandy. Based on the number of participants, ice hockey is by far the world's most popular winter sport, followed by bandy. Winter sports have their own multi-sport events, such as the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Universiade.
context_section_description: Acroski (no longer part of the Winter Olympics) 
  Alpine skiing 
  Biathlon 
  Cross-country skiing 
  Freestyle skiing 
  Kite skiing
  Mogul skiing 
  Monoskiing
  Newschool skiing
  Nordic combined 
  Ski archery
  Skiboarding
  Skibob
  Skijoring
  Ski jumping 
  Ski mountaineering
  Ski orienteering
  Snowkiting
  Speed skiing
  Speed riding
  Telemark skiing
  Winter pentathlon
  Ski-BASE Jumping
caption: Skiing
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