List of sports

The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category.
According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games. Former reference version, How many sports are there in the world? (). See .
== Acrobatic arts ==
* Gymnastics
* Breakdancing
* Color guard (flag spinning)
* Dancing
* Cheerleading
* Dancesport
* Dragon dance and Lion dance
* Figure skating
* Freerunning
* High kick
* Paragliding
* Parkour
* Pole sports
* Stunt
* Trampolining
== Air sports ==
*Aerobatics
*Air racing
**Cluster ballooning
**Hopper ballooning
*Gliding
*Hang gliding
**Powered hang glider
*Human powered aircraft
*Model aircraft
*Parachuting
**Banzai skydiving
**BASE jumping
**Skysurfing
**Wingsuit flying
*Paragliding
**Paramotoring
*Ultralight aviation
== Aquatic and paddle sports ==
These sports use water (a river, pool, etc.).
=== 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
* Stand up paddle boarding
thumb|right|Greece – Hungary water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples, Italy)
=== 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
* Snorkelling
* Sport diving (sport)
* Underwater orienteering
* Underwater photography (sport)
* Underwater target shooting
=== Diving ===
* Cliff diving
* Diving
== Archery ==
* Archery
* Field archery
* Flight archery
* Gungdo
* Indoor archery
* Kyūdō
* Mounted archery
* Popinjay
* Run archery
* Target archery
== Ball games ==
=== Bat-and-ball games ===
thumb|right|Awaiting a pitch: batter, catcher, and umpire in baseball
===Invasion games===
Sports in which the method of scoring is through goals.
====Basketball family====
* Basketball
** 3x3 basketball
** Beach basketball
** Deaf basketball
** Donkey basketball
** Rezball
** Streetball
** Unicycle basketball
** Water basketball
** Wheelchair basketball
* Cestoball
* Flickerball
* Korfball
* Netball
** Fastnet
** Indoor netball
* Ringball
* Slamball
====Football family====
thumb|right|Tyrone try for a goal against Westmeath in a Gaelic football match
====Handball family====
* Balle à la main
* Ballon au poing
* Downball
* Four Square or FS Handball
* Beach handball
* Czech handball
* Field handball
* Goalball
* Spikeball
* Tchoukball
* Torball
* Water polo
* Wheelchair handball
* Rollball
====Stick and ball family====
* Hornussen
* hurling/camogie 
=====Hockey=====
=====Hurling and shinty=====
* Cammag
* Hurling
** Camogie
* Shinty
* Composite rules shinty-hurling
=====Lacrosse=====
* Lacrosse
** Box lacrosse
** Field lacrosse
** Intercrosse
** Polocrosse
** Women's lacrosse
=====Polo=====
* Polo
**Bicycle polo
** Canoe polo
** Cowboy polo
** Elephant polo
**Hobby horse polo
**Segway polo
**Yak polo
===Net and wall games===
Games involving opponents hitting a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
thumb|right|A game of squash
Games involving opponents hitting a ball against a wall/walls using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded:
====Pilota family====
* American handball
* Australian handball
* Basque pelota
** Jai alai
* Fives
** Eton fives
** Rugby fives
* Frisian handball
* Four square
* Gaelic handball
* Jeu de paume
** Longue paume
* Palla
* Pallone
* 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
* Tennis polo
* Touchtennis
====Sports that use a non-netted racket, or paddle====
* Basque pelota
* Beach tennis
* The Downside Ball Game
* Four wall paddleball
* Matkot
* Miniten
* One wall paddleball
* Paddle ball
* Paddle tennis
* Padel
* Paleta Frontón
* Pan Pong
* Pelota mixteca
* Pickleball
* Pitton
* Platform tennis
* Sphairee
* Stoolball
* Table squash
* Table tennis (Ping Pong)
== Board sports ==
Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.
* Skateboarding
** Casterboarding
** Freeboard (skateboard)
** Longboarding
** Streetboarding
* Scootering
* Skysurfing
* Streetluge
* Snowboarding
** Mountainboarding
** Sandboarding
** Snowkiting
* Surfing
** Bodyboarding
** Dog surfing
** Riverboarding
** Skimboarding
** Wakesurfing
** Windsurfing
* Wakeboarding
** Kneeboarding
* Paddleboarding
* Standup paddleboarding
== Climbing ==
* Seiling
* Competition climbing
** Competition bouldering
** Competition ice climbing
** Competition lead climbing
** Competition speed climbing
* Ice climbing
** Dry-tooling
** Mixed climbing
* Mountaineering
** Alpine climbing
** Expedition climbing
* 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
== Cycling ==
Sports using bicycles or unicycles.
=== Bicycle ===
* Artistic cycling
* BMX
* Cycle ball
* Cycle polo
* Cycle speedway
* Cyclo-cross
* Dirt jumping
* Downhill mountain biking
* Freestyle BMX
* Hardcourt Bike Polo
* Mountain biking
* Road bicycle racing
* Track cycling
* Underwater cycling
=== Skibob ===
* Skibobbing
=== Unicycle ===
* Mountain unicycling
* Street unicycling
* Unicycling
* Unicycle basketball
* Unicycle hockey
* Unicycle trials
== 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 ===
=== Striking ===
=== Mixed or hybrid ===
=== Weapons ===
thumb|Axe throwing at the Ming Culture Village, a theme park near the Yangshan Quarry, China
* Battōjutsu
* Bojutsu
* Boffer fighting
* Buhurt
* Canne de combat
* Cardboard Tube Fighting
* Eskrima
* Egyptian stick fencing
* Fencing
* Gatka
* Historical European martial arts
* Hojōjutsu
* Iaidō
* 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
== Gymnastic ==
== 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 baseball
* Ice cross downhill
* Ice football
* Ice hockey
** Sledge hockey
** Spongee
* Ice stock sport
**Ice fishing
* Ice yachting
* Luge
* Moscow broomball
* Ringette
* Skeleton
* Speed skating
** Long track speed skating
** Short track speed skating
== Kite sports ==
* Hang gliding
* Kite buggy
* Kite fighting
* Kite landboarding
* Kitesurfing
* Parasailing
* Snow kiting
* Sport kite (Stunt kite)
== Marker sports ==
*Airsoft
*Archery
*Paintball
*Darts
== 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
* Modern pentathlon
* Pentathlon
* Tetrathlon
* Triathlon
== Motorsports ==
Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles
* Air racing
=== Auto racing ===
=== Motorboat racing ===
* Drag boat racing
* F1 powerboat racing
* Hydroplane racing
* Jet sprint boat racing
* Offshore powerboat racing
* Personal water craft
=== Motorcycle racing ===
=== ATV racing ===
* All-terrain vehicle competition
== Musical ==
* Battle of the Bands
* Battle rap
* Beatboxing
* Marching band
* Music competition
== 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
== 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 
** Skyrunning
* Sprint
* Hurdles
== Sailing ==
* Dinghy sailing
* Ice yachting
* Kiteboarding
* Land sailing
* Land windsurfing
* Sailing
* Windsurfing
* Wing foiling
* Yacht racing
== Snow sports ==
* Broomball (outdoors, snow)
* Snow baseball (Indian variant of Baseball played during winters)
=== Skiing ===
* Alpine skiing
** Downhill
** Super-G
** Giant slalom
** Slalom
** Alpine skiing combined
** Freestyle skiing
*** Aerials
*** Moguls
*** Halfpipe
*** Slopestyle
*** Ski cross
*** Ski ballet
** Speed skiing
* Nordic skiing
** Cross-country skiing
** Ski jumping
** Nordic combined
** Telemark skiing
* Ski mountaineering
* Ski touring
* Skijoring
=== Sled sports ===
* Bobsleigh
* Luge
* Shovel racing
* Skibobbing
* Skeleton
* Toboggan
== Shooting 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
* Match crossbow
** shoot the chicken
**paintball
=== Athletic hybrid ===
*Bowling
* Modern pentathlon
* Biathlon
* Summer biathlon
* Ski field shooting
* Field running
* Moose biathlon
* Target sprint
* Pistol skiing
* Orienteering shooting
* Military patrol
* Underwater target shooting
* Water baseball
* Air baseball
* Ice baseball
=== Skirmish ===
* Airsoft
* Laser tag
* Paintball
== Stacking ==
* Card stacking
* Cup stacking
* Dice stacking
* Sport stacking
== Street sports ==
* Free running and jumping
* Freestyle footbag
* Freestyle football
* Powerbocking
* Parkour
* Scootering
* Street workout
== Strength sports ==
* Strongman
* Arm Wrestling
* Toe 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
* Tag
* World Chase Tag
== Walking ==
* Backpacking (hiking)
* Freehiking
* Hiking
* Racewalking
* Walking
*
== Weightlifting ==
* Basque traditional weightlifting
* CrossFit
* Highland games
* Kettlebell lifting
* Olympic weightlifting
* Powerlifting
* Bodybuilding
* Strength athletics (strongman)
* Steinstossen
*
== Overlapping sports ==
Sports falling into two or more categories.
*Chess boxing
*Motoball
*Whirlyball
== Sports involving animals ==
=== Dog sports ===
Sports in which dogs participate.
=== Equestrian sports ===
Sports using a horse.
=== 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.
* Bullriding
* Miniature Bull Riding
* Barrel Racing
* Bronc Riding
** Saddle Bronc Riding
** Bareback Bronc Riding
* Pole bending
* Roping
** Breakaway Roping
** Tie-down Roping
** Team Roping
** Steer Roping
* Steer riding
* Steer Wrestling
* Goat Tying
*
==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
===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
* Sports video game
* Third-person shooter
* Tile-matching video game
* Virtual reality game
===Speedcubing===
* Speedcubing
**2x2x2
** 3x3x3
** 3x3x3 One-Handed
** 4x4x4
** 5×5×5
** 6×6×6
** 7×7×7
** Megaminx
** Pyraminx
** Rubik's Clock
** Skewb
** Square-1
===Strategy board games===
===Other===
* Competitive programming
* Debating
* Fantasy sport
* Quizzing
* Capture the flag (cybersecurity)
==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
==Different classification==
Potentially other sports are listed here.
===Air sports===
* Banzai skydiving
* Bungee jumping
* Hot air ballooning
===Athletics (track and field)===
* Athletics
** Track and field
* Steeplechase
* Cross country
* Jumping
** Triple jump
** Long jump
** High jump
** Pole vault
* Throwing
** Boomerang
** Discus
** Hammer throw
** Javelin
** Shot put
* Racewalking
===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
* Wood chopping
===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
===Snowsports===
* Boardercross
* Freestyle snowboarding
* Snowboarding
* Ski flying
* Skibob
* Snowshoe running
* Skiboarding
See #Skiing
===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-o-war
* Wood chopping
* Wood splitting
* Zourkhaneh
* Calisthenics
===Table sports===
* Air hockey
* Backgammon
* Beer Pong
* Carrom Nok Hockey
* Chess
* Connect Four
* Cue sports (a.k.a Billiards)
* Draughts (a.k.a. checkers)
* Dominoes
* Headis
* Janggi
* Mahjong
* Paper Football
* Reversi (a.k.a. Othello)
* Scrabble
* Shogi
* Subbuteo
* Table football
* Table hockey
* Table tennis (a.k.a. ping pong)
* Table Shuffleboard/Sling Puck
* Teqball
* Xiangqi
===Target sports===
Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.
====Cue sports====
====Golf====
* Beach golf
* Clock golf
* Codeball
* Dart golf
* Disc golf
* Footgolf
* 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
===Team sports===
Sports that involve teams.
thumb|right|Jack and Jill competition, Lumberjack World Championships, Hayward, Wisconsin, 2007.
===Windsports===
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
* Kite flying
* Parachuting
* Hot air balloon racing
===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==
==See also==
*Individual sport
*List of sports video games
*List of types of games
*Team sport
==References==