Outline of sports

A sport is a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sports:

Contents 1 Types of sport 1.1 Physical sports 1.1.1 Archery 1.1.2 Auto racing 1.1.3 Ballooning 1.1.4 Bat-and-ball 1.1.5 Board sports 1.1.6 Boules 1.1.7 Bowling 1.1.8 Catch games 1.1.9 Climbing 1.1.10 Cheerleading 1.1.11 Cycling 1.1.11.1 Bicycle 1.1.11.2 Skibob 1.1.11.3 Unicycle 1.1.12 Combat sports 1.1.12.1 Grappling 1.1.12.2 Skirmish 1.1.12.3 Weapons 1.1.12.4 Striking 1.1.12.5 Mixed or hybrid 1.1.13 Competitive aerobatics 1.1.13.1 Powered 1.1.13.2 Unpowered 1.1.14 Cue sports 1.1.15 Dance 1.1.16 Equine Sports 1.1.17 Fishing 1.1.18 Flying disc sports 1.1.19 Football family 1.1.20 Gymnastics 1.1.21 Handball Family 1.1.22 Hockey family 1.1.23 Hunting 1.1.24 Kite Sports 1.1.25 Mixed discipline 1.1.26 Motorboat racing 1.1.27 Motorcycle racing 1.1.28 Orienteering family 1.1.29 Paddle sports 1.1.29.1 Canoeing 1.1.29.2 Kayaking 1.1.29.3 Rafting 1.1.29.4 Rowing 1.1.30 Parachuting 1.1.31 Polo 1.1.32 Racquet (or racket) sports 1.1.33 Radiosport 1.1.34 Remote control 1.1.35 Running 1.1.36 Sailing 1.1.37 Skiing 1.1.38 Sled sports 1.1.39 Shooting sports 1.1.40 Stacking 1.1.41 Street Stunts 1.1.42 Tag games 1.1.43 Walking 1.1.44 Wall-and-ball 1.1.45 Water sports 1.1.45.1 Ball Sports 1.1.45.2 Competitive swimming 1.1.45.3 Subsurface & recreational 1.1.46 Weightlifting 1.2 Mind sports 1.2.1 Card Games 1.2.2 Other 1.2.3 Speedcubing 1.2.4 Strategy Board Games 1.2.5 Competitive Video Games 1.3 Miscellanea 1.3.1 Air sports 1.3.2 Animal sports 1.3.3 Athletics (track and field) 1.3.4 Electronic sports 1.3.5 Endurance sports 1.3.6 Miscellaneous sports 1.3.7 Skating sports 1.3.8 Snowsports 1.3.9 Strength sports 1.4 Tables sports 1.4.1 Target sports 1.4.2 Team sports 1.4.3 Windsports 2 History of sports 3 General sports concepts 4 Sports governing bodies 5 See also 5.1 Sports-related lists 6 References 7 External links

Types of sport

Physical sports

Archery

• Clout archery
• Field archery
• Flight archery
• Gungdo
• Kyūdō
• Popinjay (sport)
• Target archery

Auto racing

Ballooning

• Cluster ballooning
• Hopper ballooning

Bat-and-ball

Board sports

Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.

• Skateboarding
  • Casterboarding
  • Freeboard (skateboard)
  • Longboarding
  • Streetboarding
• Skysurfing
• Streetluge
• Snowboarding
  • Mountainboarding
  • Sandboarding
  • Snowkiting
• Surfing
  • Wakesurfing
  • Bodyboarding
  • Riverboarding
  • Skimboarding
• Wakeboarding
  • Kneeboarding

Boules

• Bocce
• Boccia
• Boule lyonnaise
• Bowls
• Curling
• Klootschieten
• Pétanque
• Varpa

Bowling

• Candlepin bowling
• Duckpin bowling
• Five-pin bowling
• Skittles (sport)
• Ten-pin bowling

Catch games

Climbing

• Rock Climbing
• Bouldering
• Canyoning (Canyoneering)
• Mountaineering
• Rope Climbing
• Ice Climbing

Cheerleading

• Competitive Cheerleading
• Football Cheerleading
• Basketball Cheerleading

Cycling

Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle

Skibob

• Skibobbing

Unicycle

• Mountain unicycling
• Unicycle trials

Combat sports

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

Grappling

Skirmish

• Airsoft
• Laser tag
• Paintball

Weapons

Striking

Mixed or hybrid

Competitive aerobatics

Powered

• Aerobatics
• Air racing

Unpowered

• Gliding
• Hang Gliding

Cue sports

Dance

• Ballet
• Ballroom Dancing
• Cheerleading
• Color Guard
• Ensemble
• Flag Twirling
• Flamenco
• Hip-hop
• Interpretive
• Jazz
• Latin
• Lyrical dance
• Modern dance
• Musical Theatre
• Pointe
• Pole dance
• Poms
• Salsa
• SloModern
• Swing
• Tap

Equine Sports

Sports using a horse.

• Barrel Racing
• Campdrafting
• Cross Country
• Dressage
• Endurance riding
• English Pleasure
• Equitation
• Eventing
• Equestrian vaulting
• Gymkhana
• Harness racing
• Horse racing
  

  

  Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007
• Hunter
• Reining
• Rodeo
• Show Jumping
• Steeplechase
• Team penning
• Tent pegging
• Western Pleasure

Fishing

• Angling
• Big-game fishing
• Casting
• Noodling
• Spearfishing
• Sport fishing
• Surf fishing
  • Rock fishing

Flying disc sports

Football family

Gymnastics

• Artistic gymnastics
  • Balance Beam
  • Floor
  • High Bar
  • Parallel Bars
  • Pommel Horse
  • Still Rings
  • Uneven Bars
  • Vault
• Cheerleading
• Majorette
• Competitive rope jumping
• Juggling
• Rhythmic gymnastics
• Sports acrobatics
• Tricking
• Parkour
• Trampolining
• Trapeze
  • Flying trapeze
  • Static trapeze

Handball Family

Handball games often have similarities to racquet or catch games.

Hockey family

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Field Hockey
  • Indoor field hockey
• Floorball
• Hurling (The ball can be handled so Hurling is on the periphery of the 'hockey family').
• Ice hockey
  

  

  Ice hockey players Roman Hamrlik and Joffrey Lupul dueling for position
  • Ringette
• Knotty
• Roller hockey
  • Inline hockey
  • Road hockey
  • Roller hockey (Quad)
• Shinty
• Underwater hockey

Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

• Beagling
• Big game hunting
• Deer hunting
• Fox hunting
• Hare coursing
• Wolf hunting

Kite Sports

• Kite buggy
• Kite fighting
• Kite landboarding
• Kitesurfing
• Snow kiting
• Sport kite (Stunt kite)

Mixed discipline

• Biathlon
• Duathlon
• Decathlon
• Heptathlon
• Modern pentathlon
• Pentathlon
• Triathlon

Motorboat racing

• Drag boat racing
• F1 Powerboat Racing
• Hydroplane racing
• Jet sprint boat racing
• Offshore powerboat racing

Motorcycle racing

Free Style Moto

Orienteering family

• Geocaching
• Orienteering
• Rogaining

Paddle sports

Canoeing

• Canoeing
• Outrigger canoeing

Kayaking

• Creeking
• Flyak
• Freeboating
• Royaking
• Sea kayaking
• Squirt Boating
• Surf Kayaking
• Whitewater kayaking

Rafting

• Rafting
• White water rafting

Rowing

• Gig racing
• Coastal and ocean rowing
  • Surfboat
• Dragon boat racing
• Double scull
• Quad four
• Single scull
• Straight four

Parachuting

• Banzai skydive
• BASE jumping
• Paragliding
• Parasailing
• Sky diving
• Skysurfing
• Wingsuit flying

Polo

• Bicycle polo
• Elephant polo
• Horse polo

Racquet (or racket) sports

Sports where a player use a racquet (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects.

Radiosport

Sports using a radio

• Amateur Radio Direction Finding
• Radiosport / Contesting
• High Speed Telegraphy

Remote control

• Model Aerobatics
• RC Racing
• Robot combat

Running

• Endurance
  • Cross-country running
  • Half marathon
  • Marathon
  • Ultramarathon
• Sprint (race)
• Hurdles

Sailing

• Ice yachting
• Land sailing
• Land windsurfing
• Sailing
• Windsurfing

Skiing

Sled sports

• Bobsleigh
• Luge
• Skiboobing
• Skeleton
• Toboggan

Shooting sports

Sports using a firearm.

• Clay pigeon shooting
  • Skeet shooting
  • Trap shooting
  • Sporting clays
• Target shooting
  • Field target
  • Fullbore target rifle
  • High Power Rifle
  • Benchrest shooting
  • Military Service Rifle
  • Metallic silhouette
  • Practical shooting

Stacking

• Sport stacking

Street Stunts

• Free running
• Freestyle Football
• Parkour
• Tricking

Tag games

• British bulldogs (American Eagle)
• Hana Ichi Monme
• Hide and seek
• Kabaddi
• Kho kho
• Kick the can
• Oztag
• Red rover
• Tag

Walking

• Hiking
• Race Walking

Wall-and-ball

Games involving opponents hitting a ball against a wall/walls using a racket, or other piece of equipmet, or merely gloved/barehanded.

• Australian handball
• Basque pelota
• Fives
• Gaelic handball
• Jorkyball
• Racquetball
• Rapid ball
• Squash
• Squash tennis
• Wallball
• Wallyball

Water sports

Ball Sports

• Underwater rugby
• Underwater Soccer
• Water Polo
• Canoe Polo

Competitive swimming

• Backstroke
• Breaststroke
• Butterfly stroke
• Freestyle swimming
• Individual Medley
• Synchronized swimming
• Medley relay

Subsurface & recreational

• Freediving
• Scuba Diving
• Snorkelling

Weightlifting

• Clean and jerk
• Deadlifting
• Benchpress
• Snatch
• Squat (exercise)

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

Other

• Debating

Speedcubing

• Speedcubing
  • 2x2x2
  • 3x3x3
  • 4x4x4
  • 5x5x5
  • 6x6x6
  • 7x7x7

Strategy Board Games

• Chess
• Checkers
• Chinese Checkers
• Diplomacy
• Draughts
• Go
• Go-Moku
• Jacquet
• Mancala
• Mahjong
• Reversi (Othello)
• Sogo (Score four)
• Stratego
• battleships
• connect 4

Competitive Video Games

Video Games are a sport just not a physical sport. I.E Major League Gaming

The sport video games are considered 'E-Sport'.

Miscellanea

Air sports

Animal sports

Athletics (track and field)

• Sprinting
• Steeplechase
• Cross-Country
• Jumping
  • Triple jump
  • Long jump
  • High jump
  • Pole vault
• Throwing
  • Discus
  • Hammer throw
  • Javelin
  • Atlatl
  • Shot put

Electronic sports

Sports played using electronic devices.

• Combat robot
• Radio-control vehicles
• Geo caching
• Contesting
• Starcraft
• Competitive Video Games

Endurance sports

Miscellaneous sports

Skating sports

Snowsports

• Ski flying
• Skibob
• Boardercross
• Freestyle snowboarding
• Snowshoeing
• Skiboarding

Strength sports

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

• Arm Wrestling
• Thumb wrestling
• Bodybuilding
• Powerlifting
• Toe wrestling
• Tug-o-war
• Zourkhaneh

Tables sports

• Air hockey
• Backgammon
• Connect Four
• several other Carom billiards variants
• Eight-ball (and Blackball)
• many other Pocket billiards (pool) variants
• many other (generally obsolete) Obstacle variations Cue sports variants
• Draughts (checker)
• Dominoes
• Mahjong (Taipei)
• Reversi (Othello)
• Shogi
• Scrabble (and variants)
• Subbuteo
• Table football
• Table Tennis (Ping Pong)
• Table hockey
• Xiangqi

Target sports

Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target.

Team sports

Sports that involve teams.

Windsports

Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):

• Kite flying
• parachuting
• Oscar sport

History of sports

• Sports history organizations
• Sports timeline

General sports concepts

• Athlete
• Coach
• Disabled sports
• Extreme sports
• Fan
• Fantasy sports
• Female sport
• Gamesmanship
• Multi-sport events
• Nationalism and sport
• Olympic Games
• Performance art
• Professional sport
• Professional sports
• Regulation of sport
• Spectator sport
• Sponsor
• Sporting club
• Sports coaching
• Sports equipment
• Sports in film
• Sports injuries
• Sports journalism
• Sportsmanship
• Sports marketing
• Sports memorabilia
• Sportsperson
• Sportswear
• Student athlete
• Violence in sports
• World record

Sports governing bodies

This section requires expansion.

World governing bodies of various notable sports:

• The Olympic Games: International Olympic Committee (IOC)
• Baseball: International Baseball Federation (IBAF), but several countries/regions have their own professional bodies with rules variations, including Cuba, US/Canada, and Japan
• Basketball: International Basketball Federation (FIBA), but national pro leagues may diverge from its rules, as in the US
• Cricket: International Cricket Council (ICC)
• Cue sports governing bodies are divided by discipline:
  • Carom billiards: Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB)
  • Pocket billiards (pool): World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA)
  • Snooker and English billiards: World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA or World Snooker)
• Football variants have many governing bodies, with widely divergent rules:
  • Association football (soccer): International Federation of Association Football (FIFA)
  • Gridiron football is divided in into US and Canadian rules and bodies
  • Rugby football is divided into two "codes" or sets of rules, union and league
  • Australian-rules football: Australian Football League (AFL)
  • Gaelic football: Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)
  • International-rules football: A conference of the AFL and GAA
• Golf has no single governing body, but is divided nationally and regionally.
• Ice hockey: International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF)
• Motor racing:
  • Car racing: International Federation of the Automobile (FIA)
  • Motorcycle racing: International Motorcycling Federation (FIM)
  • Motorboat racing: International Motonautical Union (UIM) and others, depending on boat type
• Tennis: International Tennis Federation (ITF)

See also

Sports-related lists

• List of sportspeople
• List of sports attendance figures
• List of professional sports leagues

References

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