Cycling
Cycling sports using bicycles or unicycles.
Bicycle
Skibob
Unicycle
Combat sports
Combat sport is a competitive contact sport where two combatants fight against each other using certain rules of engagement.
Skirmish
Weapons
Striking
Mixed or hybrid
Competitive aerobatics
Powered
Unpowered
Cue sports
- Carom billiards
- Novuss
- Pocket billiards (pool)
- Snooker
- Hybrid carom–pocket games
- Obstacle variations
Dance
- Ballet
- Ballroom Dancing
- Cheerleading
- Ensemble
- Flamenco
- Hip-hop
- Interpretive
- Jazz
- Latin
- Lyrical
- Modern dance
- Musical Theatre
- Pointe
- Pole
- 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
Flying disc sports
- Disc dog
- Disc golf
- Dodge disc
- Durango boot
- Double disc court
- Flutterguts
- Freestyle
- Fricket, (AKA disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks or crispy wickets)
- Friskee
- Goaltimate
- Guts (sport)
- Hot box
- Ringo
- Ultimate (sport)
Football family
Gymnastics
- Artistic gymnastics
- Cheerleading
- Majorette
- Competitive rope jumping
- Juggling
- Rhythmic gymnastics
- Sports acrobatics
- Tricking
- Parkour
- Trampolining
- Trapeze
Handball Family
Handball games often have similarities to racquet or catch games.
Hockey family
- Bandy
- Broomball
- Field Hockey
- Floorball
- Hurling (The ball can be handled so Hurling is on the periphery of the 'hockey family').
- Ice hockey
- Knotty
- Roller hockey
- Shinty
- Underwater hockey
Hunting
Sometimes considered blood sports.
Kite Sports
Mixed discipline
Motorboat racing
Motorcycle racing
Orienteering family
Paddle sports
Canoeing
Kayaking
Rafting
Rowing
Parachuting
Polo
Racquet (or racket) sports
Sports where a player use a racquet (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects.
Radiosports
Sports using a radio
Remote control
Running
Sailing
Skiing
Sled sports
Shooting sports
Sports using a firearm:
Sport Stacking
Street stunts
Tag games
- British bulldogs (American Eagle)
- Hana Ichi Monme
- Hide and seek
- Kabaddi
- Kho kho
- Kick the can
- Oztag
- Red rover
- Tag
Walking
Weightlifting
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
Speedcubing
Strategy Board Games
- Chess
- Checkers
- Chinese Checkers
- Diplomacy
- Draughts
- Go
- Go-Moku
- Jacquet
- Mancala
- Mahjong
- Sogo (Score four)
- Stratego
- Sudoku
Competitive Video Games
Games played in tournaments worldwide include:
- Counter-Strike
- Quake series
- Unreal Tournament
- Battlefield
- Rainbow Six Vegas
- Rainbow Six Vegas 2
- Warcraft 3
- Starcraft
- Age of Empires
- Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War
- Command & Conquer
- DotA
- FIFA
- Need for Speed
- Halo 1
- Halo 2
- Halo 3
- Gears of War
- Gears of War 2
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Miscellanea
Air sports
Animal sports
Athletics (track and field)
Electronic sports
Sports played using electronic devices.
Endurance sports
Miscellaneous sports
Skating sports
Snowsports
Strength sports
Sports mainly based on sheer power.
- 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.
- Association Football (soccer)
- Australian rules football
- Ball hockey
- Beach handball
- Beach soccer
- Beach rugby
- Beach volleyball
- Bossaball
- Box/indoor lacrosse
- Bowling
- Basque pelota
- Broomball
- Bunnock
- Camogie
- Cubbies
- Footballtennis
- Futsal
- Gateball
- Handball
- Hornussen
- Horseshoe
- Indoor soccer
- Kickball
- Lacrosse
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Polocrosse
- Paintball
- Ringette
- Roller Hockey (Rink Hockey)
- Royal Shrovetide Football
- Sepak Takraw
- Skittles
- Slamball
- Soccer
- Speedball
- Tennis Polo
- Throwball
- Underwater football
- Wallyball
- Wheelchair basketball
- Wheelchair tennis
- Wiffle ball
- Six-man football
- Flag football
Windsports
Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):
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