List of sports The following is a list of sports/games, divided by cat- egory. There are many more sports to be added. This system has a disadvantage because some sports may fit in more than one category. According to the World Sports Encyclopedia (2003) there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games.[1] 1 Physical sports 1.1 Air sports Wingsuit flying • Parachuting • Banzai skydiving • BASE jumping • Skydiving Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville. • Skysurfing Main article: Air sports • Wingsuit flying • Paragliding • Aerobatics • Powered paragliding • Air racing • Paramotoring • Ballooning • Ultralight aviation • Cluster ballooning • Hopper ballooning 1.2 Archery Main article: Archery • Gliding • Marching band • Field archery • Hang gliding • Flight archery • Powered hang glider • Gungdo • Human powered aircraft • Indoor archery • Model aircraft • Kyūdō 1 2 1 PHYSICAL SPORTS • Sipa • Throwball • Volleyball • Beach volleyball • Water Volleyball • Paralympic volleyball • Wallyball • Tennis Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō. 1.4 Basketball family • Popinjay • Target archery 1.3 Ball over net games An international match of Volleyball. Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at 2008 • Ball badminton Summer Olympic Games • Biribol • Basketball • Goalroball • Beach basketball • Bossaball • Deaf basketball • Fistball • 3x3 • Footbag net • Streetball • • Football tennis Water basketball • Wheelchair basketball • Footvolley • Korfball • Hooverball • Netball • Peteca • Fastnet • Pickleball • Indoor netball • Sepak takraw • Slamball 1.6 Baton twirling 3 1.5 Bat-and-ball (Safe haven) • Rounders – four bases or posts • Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se) • Stickball – variable • Stool ball – two stools • T-Ball • Town ball – variable • Vigoro – two wickets • Wireball • Wiffleball Awaiting a pitch: batter, catcher, and umpire in Baseball • Bucketball Main article: Bat-and-ball 1.6 Baton twirling • Baton twirling • Baseball • Softball 1.7 Board sports • Slow Pitch • Bat-and-Trap • British baseball - four posts • Brännboll - four bases • Corkball - four bases (no base-running) • Cricket - two creases • Indoor cricket • Limited overs cricket • One Day International • Test cricket • Twenty20 • Danish longball • Kickball • Lapta – two salos (bases) • The Massachusetts Game – four bases Skateboard vert jump at the Sprite urban games 2006 in London. • Matball Main article: Board sports • Oina – One (Two, Three, or Four) • Old Cat – variable Sports that are played with some sort of board as the pri- mary equipment. • Over-the-line – qv • Palant • Skateboarding • Pesäpallo – four bases • Scootering • Punchball • Casterboarding 4 1 PHYSICAL SPORTS 1.8 Catch games • Curving • Dodgeball • Ga-ga • Keep Away • Kin-Ball • Prisoner Ball • Quidditch • Rundown (aka Pickle) Snowboard figure at the 2008 Shakedown • Yukigassen • Handball 1.9 Climbing Surfing in Hawaii • Freeboard (skateboard) • Longboarding • Streetboarding • Skysurfing Canyoning • Streetluge Main article: Climbing • Snowboarding • Mountainboarding • • Sandboarding Rock Climbing • Snowkiting • Bouldering • Surfing • Deep-water soloing • • Swing boarding Sport climbing • Traditional climbing • Wakesurfing • Bodyboarding • Aid Climbing • Riverboarding • Ice Climbing • Skimboarding • Mixed climbing • Windsurfing • Abseiling • Wakeboarding • Mountaineering • Kneeboarding • Pennyboarding • Other 1.11 Combat sports: Wrestling and martial arts 5 • Canyoning (Canyoneering) 1.10.2 Skibob • Hiking • Skibobbing • Rope Climbing • Pole climbing 1.10.3 Unicycle • Coasteering Main article: Unicycle 1.10 Cycling • Unicycling • Mountain unicycling • Unicycle trials • Unicycle hockey • Unicycle basketball 1.11 Combat sports: Wrestling and mar- tial arts Main articles: Combat sport and Martial arts A Track Cycling Race Combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of Main article: Cycling engagement. Sports using bicycles or unicycles. 1.11.1 Grappling Main article: Grappling 1.10.1 Bicycle Main article: Bicycle • Artistic cycling • Bicycle Motocross or BMX • Cyclo-cross • Cross-country mountain biking • Cycle polo • Cycle speedway Two men compete in Freestyle wrestling. • Downhill mountain biking • Dirt jumping • Aiki-jūjutsu • Freestyle BMX • Aikido • Hardcourt Bike Polo • Hala • Road bicycle racing • Kinomichi • Track cycling • Jujutsu • Underwater cycling • Judo 6 1 PHYSICAL SPORTS • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu • Bokator • Sambo (martial art) • Capoeira • Sumo • Fujian White Crane • Wrestling • Karate • Amateur wrestling • Kenpō • Greco-Roman wrestling • Kickboxing • Freestyle wrestling • • Folk wrestling Lethwei • Boli Khela • Muay Thai • Dumog • Pradal Serey • Glima • Kurash • San shou • Hapsagai • Savate • Lancashire wrestling • Catch wrestling • Shaolin kung fu • Malla-yuddha • Sikaran • Mongolian wrestling • Pehlwani • Silat • Professional wrestling • Subak • Schwingen • • Shuai Jiao Taekkyeon • Ssireum • Taekwondo • Varzesh-e Pahlavani • • Yağlı Güreş Taido • Greek wrestling • Tang Soo Do • Wing Chun 1.11.2 Striking • Wing Tsun Main article: Strike (attack) • Zui Quan 1.11.3 Mixed or hybrid Further information: Mixed martial arts A kick in Kickboxing. • Choi Kwang-Do • Cockfighting Ground fighting in MMA. • Boxing 1.11 Combat sports: Wrestling and martial arts 7 • Amateur pankration • Baguazhang • Bando • Bartitsu • Bujinkan • Hapkido • Hwa Rang Do • Jeet Kune Do Axe throwing at the Ming Culture Village, a theme park near the Yangshan Quarry, China • Kajukenbo • Kalarippayattu • Krav Maga • Kuk Sool Won • MCMAP • Mixed martial arts • Northern Praying Mantis Two kendōka. • Ninjutsu • Pankration 1.11.4 Weapons • • Pencak Silat Axe throwing • Battōjutsu • Sanshou • Boffer Fighting • Shidōkan Karate • Eskrima • Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan • Egyptian stick fencing • Shoot boxing • Fencing • Shootfighting • Gatka • Shorinji Kempo • Hojōjutsu • Iaidō • Systema • Iaijutsu • T'ai chi ch'uan • Jōdō • Vajra-mushti • Jogo do Pau • Vale tudo • Jūkendō • Vovinam • Juttejutsu • Xingyiquan • Kendo 8 1 PHYSICAL SPORTS • Kenjutsu • kung fu • Kyūdō • Kyūjutsu • Modern Arnis • Naginatajutsu • Okinawan kobudō • Shurikenjutsu • Silambam Snooker. • Sōjutsu • • Swordfighting Balkline and straight rail • Cushion caroms • wushu (sport) • Four-ball (yotsudama) • gumdo • Artistic billiards • Wing Tsun • Novuss • Pocket billiards (pool) Skirmish • Eight-ball • Airsoft • Blackball • Laser tag • Nine-ball • • Paintball Straight pool (14.1 continuous) • One-pocket • 1.12 Cue sports 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 Pool balls • Cutthroat • Main article: Cue sports Killer • Russian pyramid • • Carom billiards Snooker • • Three-cushion Snooker plus • Five-pins • Hybrid carom-pocket games 1.14 Fishing 9 • English billiards • Hunter-jumpers • Bottle pool • Jousting • Cowboy • Polo • Obstacle variations • Pato • Bagatelle • Reining • Bar billiards • Bumper pool • Rodeo • Show Jumping 1.13 Equine sports • Steeplechase • Team penning • Tent pegging • Western Pleasure • Polocrosse 1.14 Fishing Main article: Fishing • Angling Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007 • Big-game fishing Sports using a horse. • Casting • Buzkashi • Noodling • Barrel Racing • Spearfishing • Campdrafting • Sport fishing • Charreada • Surf fishing • Chilean rodeo • Rock fishing • Cross Country • Fly Fishing • Dressage • Ice Fishing • Endurance riding • English Pleasure 1.15 Flying disc sports • Equitation Main article: Flying disc games • Eventing • Equestrian vaulting • Beach Ultimate • Gymkhana • Disc dog • Harness racing • Disc golf • Horse racing • Disc golf (urban) • Horseball • Dodge disc • Hunter • Double disc court 10 1 PHYSICAL SPORTS Football player Lionel Messi shoots from just outside the Manchester United penalty area during the 2009 UEFA Cham- pions League Final Australia vs Canada ultimate players WUGC 2012 in Japan. Ultimate Canada Tyrone try for a goal against Westmeath in a Gaelic football match • Flutterguts • Kemari • Freestyle • Ki-o-rahi • Freestyle competition • Marn Grook • Fricket (aka disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks and crispy • Woggabaliri wickets) • Yubi lakpi • Goaltimate • Medieval football • Guts (game) • Ba game • Hot box • Caid • Calcio Fiorentino • Ringo • Camping (game) • Chester-le-Street 1.16 Football family • Cnapan • Main article: Football Cornish hurling • Haxey Hood • Knattleikr • Ancient games • La soule • Chinlone • Lelo burti • Cuju • Mob football • Episkyros • Royal Shrovetide Football • Harpastum • Uppies and Downies 1.17 Golf 11 • Association football • Masters Rugby League • Mini footy • Jorkyball • Mod league • Paralympic football • Rugby league nines • Powerchair Football • Rugby league sevens • Reduced variants • Tag Rugby • Five-a-side football • Touch Football • Beach soccer • Wheelchair rugby league • Futebol de Salão • Rugby union • Futsal • • Papi fut American flag rugby • • Indoor soccer Mini rugby • • Masters Football Rugby sevens • Tag Rugby • Street football • Touch rugby • Cubbies • Rugby tens • Freestyle football • Snow rugby • Keepie uppie • Snail racing • Swamp football • Three sided football • Hybrid codes • Australian football • Austus • Nine-a-side footy • Football tennis • Rec footy • Footvolley • Metro footy • International rules football • English school games • Kickball • Kronum • Eton College • Matball • Field game • Wall game • Samoa