List of dog sports

Dog sports are activities that involve dogs.

Training a retrieve in Schutzhund, a dog sport.

There is much discussion about what exactly defines a sport for dogs. Some issues:

• Must a sport be entertaining to watch? Agility, Disc dog, and Dock Jumping are very entertaining to spectators, and often televised.
• If a human companion is not actively involved, is it actually a sport? Take greyhound racing, for example, or hunting from a duck blind, from which the dog retrieves the game.
• Is any activity a sport if a casual observer does not understand the nature of the competition? For example, in a conformation show the handler and dog move around a ring for a judge to evaluate the dog's appearance and structure; the skill and knowledge required are not obvious to those uninterested in the sport.

This list is intended only to represent anything that anyone is likely to refer to as a dog sport, not to argue its validity as sport.

An Alaskan Malamute going over an A-frame during a dog agility competition

A Golden Retriever Dock Jumping into a pool.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

• Agility
• Bikejoring
• Cani cross
• Caniteering
• Carting
• Competition obedience
• Conformation showing
• Catchball (A variation on Flyball)
• Disc dog
• Dog fighting
• Dock Jumping
• Dog hiking, Pack Hiking
• Dog scootering
• Earthdog trials
• Field trials
• [[Flying]
• French Ring Sport
• Greyhound racing
• Hare coursing
• Herding or Stock Dog
• Hunting
• Hound Trailing
• Junior Showmanship
• Lure coursing
• Mushing, Dog mushing
• Musical canine freestyle; Canine Dressage; Heelwork to Music
• Nose work
• Obedience training
• Protection sports (including Schutzhund, Service Dogs Of America and French Ring Sport)
• Rally obedience
• Retrieving trials
• Scootering
• Sheepdog trials (or Herding)
• Sighthound Disc Sport
• Sighthound racing (including Greyhound & Whippet racing, coursing, and lure coursing)
• Skijoring
• Sled dog racing
• Dog Surfing
• Terrier Racing
• Tracking trials (see also Tracking (dog))
• Treibball
• Water work/Water rescue
• Weight pulling
• Weiner Racing (i.e. racing Dachshunds)

References

• "101 Ways to Do More With Your Dog!"

See also

• Racing