Outline of sports

Outline of sports

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

Sport – a physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively, sports can be played on land, in water and in the air.

Contents

Types of sports

Physical sports

Air sports

Lima Lima aerobatics team performing over Louisville.
Main article: Air sports
Wingsuit flying

Archery

Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.
Main article: Archery

Ball over a net games

An international match of Volleyball.

Basketball family

Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at 2008 Summer Olympic Games

Bat-and-ball (Safe haven)

Awaiting a pitch: batter, catcher, and umpire.In Baseball
Main article: Bat-and-ball

Baton twirling

Main article: Baton twirling

Board sports

Skateboard vert jump at the Sprite urban games 2006 in London.
Snowboard figure at the 2008 Shakedown
Surfing in Hawaii
Main article: Board sports

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

Boules

Lawn bowler Tim Mason
Main article: Boules

Bowling

Main article: Bowling

Catch games

Climbing

Canyoning
Main article: Climbing

Cycling

A Track Cycling Race
Main article: Cycling

Sports using bicycles or unicycles.

Bicycle
Main article: Bicycle
Skibob
Unicycle
Main article: Unicycle

Combat sports

Main article: Combat sports
Main article: Martial Arts

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

Grappling
Two men compete in Freestyle wrestling.
Skirmish
Weapons
Two kendōka.
Striking
A kick in Kickboxing.
Mixed or hybrid
Ground fighting in MMA.

Cue sports

Pool balls
Snooker.
Main article: Cue sports

Dance

Three ballet dancers performing a grand jeté jump
Modern dance
Main article: Outline of dance

Equine Sports

Barrel racing
Horse racing at Arlington Park, 2007
Main article: Equestrianism

Sports using a horse.

Fishing

Main article: Fishing

Flying disc sports

Main article: Flying disc games

Football family

Football player Lionel Messi shoots from just outside the Manchester United penalty area during the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final
Main article: Football

Golf

Main article: Golf

Gymnastics

Trampoline gymnast Jason Burnett at 2008 Canadian National Championships
Main article: Gymnastics

Handball Family

A 7-meter throw in Team handball.
Main article: Team handball

Hunting

Main article: Hunting

Sometimes considered blood sports.

Kite Sports

Mixed discipline

The three components of triathlon: swimming, cycling, running

Decathlon, Heptathlon, and the Pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five component contests that are scored together using one points system.

Musical Performance Sports

The Cavaliers, an example of a modern drum & bugle corps, performing at the 2004 DCI World Championships in Denver, Colorado.

Orienteering family

Paddle sports

See Outline of kayaking and canoeing

Canoeing
Kayaking
Main article: Kayaking
Rafting
Rafting
Rowing

Pilota family

Valencian pilota.

Racquet (or racket) sports

Justine Henin, a Tennis player.

Sports where a player use a racquet (or racket) to hit a ball or other objects. {{columns-list|3|

Remote control

Running

200 meters sprint
Main article: Running

Sailing

Windsurfing
Main article: Sailing

Skiing

Main article: Skiing

Sled sports

United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form.
Main article: Sledding

Shooting sports

Main article: Shooting sports

Sports using a firearm.

Stacking

Stick and Ball Games

Street Stunts

Tag games

Main article: Tag games

Walking

Wall-and-ball

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.

Water sports

Greece - Hungary Water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples, Italy)
Main article: Water sports
Ball Sports
Michael Phelps swimming breaststroke at the 2008 Missouri Grand Prix.
Competitive Swimming
Main article: Competitive swimming
Subsurface and recreational
  • Freediving
  • Scuba Diving
  • Snorkelling
  • Immersion finswimming
  • Underwater orientation

Weightlifting

Main articles: Olympic weightlifting and Powerlifting

Mind sports

Chess
Main article: 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.[1]

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. (See also List of world championships in mind sports)

chess

Card Games

Main articles: Card Games and List of card games

Speedcubing

Speaking Sports

Strategy Board Games

A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China

Motorized sports

Auto racing

The start of a Formula One race in 2008
Main article: Auto racing

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Motorboat racing

Main article: Motorboat racing

Motorcycle racing

MotoGP racing
Main article: Motorcycle racing

Miscellanea

Animal sports

Athletics (track and field)

Pole vault

Electronic sports

Sports played using electronic devices.

Endurance sports

Miscellaneous sports

A man bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge

Olympic Sports

Main article: Olympic Sports

Summer Olympics

Winter Olympics

Other

Skating sports

Speed skating.

Snowsports

A snowborder and a skier
A ski jumper using the V-style
Freestyle skiing

Strength sports

Sports mainly based on sheer power.

Arm Wrestling

Table sports

See also Cue Sports.

Target sports

Sports where the main objective is to hit a certain target. {{columns-list|3|

Team sports

Main article: Team sport

Sports that involve teams. (Many are listed elsewhere too.) {{columns-list|4|

Windsports

Sports which use the wind (apart from sailing):

Fictional sports

Sport by region

Africa

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Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo
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Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • Tunisia • Western Sahara
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Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe
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Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe
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Botswana • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa • Swaziland
Dependencies
Mayotte (France) • St. Helena (UK) • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Antarctica

None

Asia

Central Asia
Kazakhstan[2] • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan
East Asia
China[3]
Tibet
Hong Kong[4] • Macau[5]
Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan[6]
North Asia
Russia[7]
Southeast Asia[8]
Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia[9] • East Timor (Timor-Leste)[10] • Indonesia[11] • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam
South Asia
Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan• Iran • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
India[12]
Delhi
West Asia
Armenia[13] • Azerbaijan[14] • Bahrain • Cyprus[15] (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia[16] • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • Palestine [17]Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey[18] • United Arab Emirates • Yemen

Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

North Caucasus
Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)
South Caucasus
Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

Europe

Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain • Svalbard • Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine
United Kingdom
England • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales
Vatican City
European Union

North America

Canada

Greenland • Mexico • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

United States
Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Montana • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)
Central America
Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama
Caribbean
Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands
Oceania'''(includes the continent of Australia)
Australasia[19]
Australia
Dependencies/Territories of Australia
Christmas Island[8] • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • Norfolk Island
New Zealand[20]
Melanesia[21]
Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only)[22] • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea[23] • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •
Micronesia
Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (US) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • Wake Island (USA) •
Polynesia[24]
American Samoa (USA) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Adamstown • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)

South America

Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

South Atlantic

Ascension Island • Saint Helena • Tristan da Cunha

History of sports

Main article: History of sports
  • Sports history organizations

Recreational sporting

Rules

Sports in court

General
Association football
Baseball
Basketball
Other sports

Sports coaching

  • Sports coaching

Sporting events

Sports training

Sports medicine

  • Sports injuries

Sports nutrition

Sports and media

Sports magazines

Sports television programs

Sports ethics and conduct

Sports participants

Sports venues

Sports venue features

Sports equipment

Game play

Sports management

Main article: Sport management

Sports culture

Sports and politics

Organized sports

Sports governing bodies

Main article: Sports governing bodies
See also: List of international sport federations

World governing bodies of various notable sports:

Sociology of sport

Main article: Sociology of sport

Sport psychology

Main article: Sport psychology

See also

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Sports-related lists

References

  1. ^ Bridge; Olympic Chief Backs Bridge for Entry as a Winter Sport, 26 September 1998, Alan Truscott
  2. ^   Kazakhstan is sometimes considered a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only.
  3. ^   The state is commonly known as simply "China", which is subsumed by the eponymous entity and civilization (China).
  4. ^   Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC.
  5. ^   Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC.
  6. ^   Under the de facto control of the Republic of China (ROC) government, commonly referred to as Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the PRC; see political status of Taiwan.
  7. ^   Russia is a transcontinental country; population and area figures are for Asian portion only.
  8. ^ a b Excludes Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australian external territories in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia).
  9. ^ General Population Census of Cambodia 2008 - Provisional population totals, National Institute of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, released 3 September 2008
  10. ^   East Timor is often considered a transcontinental country in Southeastern Asia and Oceania.
  11. ^   Indonesia is often considered a transcontinental country in Southeastern Asia and Oceania
  12. ^   Includes Jammu and Kashmir, a contested territory among India, Pakistan, and the PRC.
  13. ^   Armenia is sometimes considered a transcontinental country physiographically in Western Asia, it has historical and sociopolitical connections with Europe.
  14. ^   Azerbaijan is often considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only. Figures include Nakhchivan, an autonomous exclave of Azerbaijan bordered by Armenia, Iran, and Turkey.
  15. ^   The island of Cyprus is sometimes considered a transcontinental territory in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea south of Turkey, it has historical and socio-political connections with Europe. The U.N. considers Cyprus to be in Western Asia, while the C.I.A. considers it to be in the Middle East.
  16. ^   Georgia is often considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Eastern Europe; population and area figures are for the Asian portion only.
  17. ^   Gaza and West Bank, collectively referred to as the "Occupied Palestinian Territory" by the UN, are territories partially occupied by Israel but under de facto administration of the Palestinian National Authority.
  18. ^   Turkey is generally considered a transcontinental country in Western Asia and Southern Europe; population and area figures are for Asian portion only, excluding all of Istanbul.
  19. ^ The use and scope of this term varies. The UN designation for this subregion is "Australia and New Zealand."
  20. ^ New Zealand is often considered part of Polynesia rather than Australasia.
  21. ^ Excludes parts of Indonesia, island territories in Southeast Asia (UN region) frequently reckoned in this region.
  22. ^ Indonesia is generally considered a territory of Southeastern Asia (UN region); wholly or partially, it is also frequently included in Australasia or Melanesia. Figures include Indonesian portion of New Guinea (Irian Jaya) and Maluku Islands.
  23. ^ Papua New Guinea is often considered part of Australasia as well as Melanesia.
  24. ^ Excludes the US state of Hawaii, which is distant from the North American landmass in the Pacific Ocean, and Easter Island, a territory of Chile in South America.

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