71 Peo./Sce.: Sports

Sports is a subcategory split into two different categories: People and Places where People defines the activities made by people and Places the physical constructions or surfaces for the practice of the sport.

Sports refer an organization of sports into a clearly defined set of groups according to the tasks and duties undertaken in the activity.

(12 Major groups, 71 Units groups, with 967 sport examples.)

  1. Air sports

    1. Air sport

      • Aerobatics
      • Air racing
      • Ballooning
        • Cluster ballooning
        • Hopper ballooning
      • Wingsuit flying
      • Gliding
      • Hang gliding
        • Powered hang glider
      • Human powered aircraft
      • Model aircraft
      • Parachuting
        • Banzai skydiving
        • BASE jumping
        • Skydiving
        • Skysurfing
        • Wingsuit flying
      • Paragliding
        • Powered paragliding
      • Paramotoring
      • Ultralight aviation
      • Kite Sports
        • Kite buggy
        • Kite fighting
        • Kite landboarding
        • Kitesurfing
        • Parasailing
        • Snow kiting
        • Sport kite
  2. Athletics

    1. Running

      • Endurance
        • 5K run
        • 10K run
        • Cross-country running
        • Half marathon
        • Marathon
        • Road running
        • Tower running
        • Ultramarathon
      • Sprint
      • Hurdles
    2. Track and field

      • Steeplechase
      • Cross country
      • Jumping
        • Triple jump
        • Long jump
        • High jump
        • Pole vault
      • Throwing
        • Axe throwing
        • Discus
        • Hammer throw
        • Javelin
        • Atlatl
        • Shot put
      • Racewalking
  3. Ball Sports

    1. Ball-over-net games

      • Badminton
      • Ball badminton
      • Biribol
      • Bossaball
      • Fistball
      • Footbag net
      • Football tennis
      • Footvolley
      • Hooverball
      • Peteca
      • Pickleball
      • Platform tennis
      • Sepak takraw
      • Sipa
      • Tennis
      • Throwball
      • Volleyball
        • Beach volleyball
        • Water volleyball
        • Paralympic volleyball
      • Wallyball
    2. BasketBall family

      • Basketball
        • Beach basketball
        • Deaf basketball
        • 3×3
        • Streetball
        • Water basketball
        • Wheelchair basketball
      • Cestoball
      • Korfball
      • Netball
        • Fastnet
        • Indoor netball
      • Ringball
      • Slamball
    3. Bat-and-ball

      • Baseball
        • Softball
          • Slow pitch
          • Fast-pitch softball
          • 16-inch softball
      • 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
      • Kilikiti
      • Lapta – two salos (bases)
      • The Massachusetts Game – four bases
      • Matball
      • Oina
      • Old cat – variable
      • Over-the-line – qv
      • Palant
      • Pesäpallo – four bases
      • Punchball
      • Rounders – four bases or posts
      • Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se)
      • Stickball – variable
      • Stool ball – two stools
      • Tee-ball
      • Town ball – variable
      • Vigoro – two wickets
      • Wireball
      • Wiffleball
      • Bucketball
    4. Football family

      • Ancient games
        • Chinlone
        • Cuju
        • Episkyros
        • Harpastum
        • Kemari
        • Ki-o-rahi
        • Marn Grook
        • Woggabaliri
        • Yubi lakpi
      • Medieval football
        • Ba game
        • Caid
        • Calcio Fiorentino
        • Camping (game)
        • Chester-le-Street
        • Cnapan
        • Cornish hurling
        • Haxey Hood
        • Knattleikr
        • La soule
        • Lelo burti
        • Mob football
        • Royal Shrovetide Football
        • Uppies and Downies
      • Association football
        • Jorkyball
        • Paralympic football
        • Powerchair Football
          • Reduced variants
            • Five-a-side football
              • Beach soccer
              • Futebol de Salão
              • Futsal
              • Papi fut
            • Indoor soccer
            • Masters Football
          • Street football
            • Freestyle football
            • Keepie uppie
          • Swamp football
          • Three sided football
        • Australian football
          • Nine-a-side footy
          • Rec footy
          • Metro footy
        • English school games
          • Eton College
            • Field game
            • Wall game
          • Harrow football
        • Gaelic football
          • Ladies’ Gaelic football
        • Gridiron football
          • American football
            • Eight-man football
            • Flag football
            • Indoor football
              • Arena football
            • Nine-man football
            • Six-man football
            • Sprint football
            • Touch football
          • Canadian football
          • Street football (American)
        • Rugby football
          • Beach rugby
          • Rugby league
            • Masters Rugby League
            • Mini footy
            • Mod league
            • Rugby league nines
            • Rugby league sevens
            • Tag rugby
            • Touch football
            • Wheelchair rugby league
          • Rugby union
            • American flag rugby
            • Mini rugby
            • Rugby sevens
            • Tag rugby
            • Touch rugby
            • Rugby tens
            • Snow rugby
          • Snail racing
        • Hybrid codes
          • Austus
          • Eton wall game
          • International rules football
          • Kronum
          • Samoa rules
          • Speedball
          • Universal football
          • Volata
    5. Handball family

      • Goalball
      • Tchoukball
      • Team handball
        • Beach handball
        • Czech handball
        • Field handball
      • Torball
      • Water polo
    6. Pilota family

      • American handball
      • Australian handball
      • Basque pelota
        • Jai alai
      • Fives
        • Eton Fives
        • Rugby Fives
      • Frisian handball
      • Four square
      • Gaelic handball
      • Jeu de paume
      • Palla
      • Patball
      • Valencian pilota
    7. Wall-and-ball

      • American handball
      • Australian handball
      • Basque pelota
      • Butts Up
      • Chinese handball
      • Fives
      • Gaelic handball
      • International fronton
      • Jorkyball
      • Racquetball
      • Squash
      • Squash tennis
      • Suicide (game)
      • Valencian frontó
      • Wallball
      • Wallyball
    8. Racquet sports

      • Justine Henin, a tennis player.
      • Badminton
      • Ball badminton
      • Basque pelota
        • Frontenis
        • Xare
      • Beach tennis
      • Fives
      • Pitton
      • Paleta Frontón
      • Pelota mixteca
      • Platform tennis
      • Qianball
      • Racquetball
      • Racquets
      • Racketlon
      • Real tennis
      • Soft tennis
      • Speed-ball
      • Speedminton
      • Squash
        • Hardball squash
      • Squash tennis
      • Stické
      • Tennis
    9. Lacrosse

      • Box lacrosse
      • Field lacrosse
      • Women’s lacrosse
      • Intercrosse
    10. Hurling and shinty

      • Cammag
      • HurlingCamogie
        • Shinty
      • Composite rules shinty-hurling
    11. Polo

      • Polo
        • Bicycle polo
        • Canoe polo
        • Cowboy polo
        • Elephant polo
        • Horse polo
        • Segway polo
        • Yak polo
      • Polocrosse
    12. Stick and ball games

      • Hornussen
  4. Combat sports

    1. Grappling

      • Aiki-jūjutsu
        • Aikido
          • Hala
          • Kinomichi
      • Jujutsu
        • Judo
          • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
      • Sambo (martial art)
      • Sumo
      • Wrestling
        • Amateur wrestling
          • Greco-Roman wrestling
          • Freestyle wrestling
        • Folk wrestling
          • Boli Khela
          • Dumog
          • Glima
          • Kurash
          • Hapsagai
          • Lancashire wrestling
            • Catch wrestling
          • Malla-yuddha
          • Mongolian wrestling
          • Pehlwani
          • Professional wrestling
          • Schwingen
          • Shuai Jiao
          • Ssireum
          • Varzesh-e Pahlavani
          • Yağlı Güreş
        • Greek wrestling
    2. Striking

      • A kick in kickboxing.
      • Choi Kwang-Do
      • Cockfighting
      • Boxing
      • Bokator
      • Capoeira
      • Fujian White Crane
      • Karate
      • Kenpō
      • Kickboxing
      • Lethwei
      • Muay Thai
      • Pradal serey
      • San shou
      • Savate
      • Shaolin kung fu
      • Sikaran
      • Silat
      • Subak
      • Taekkyeon
      • Taekwondo
      • Taido
      • Tang Soo Do
      • Wing Chun
      • Zui quan
    3. Mixed or hybrid

      • Amateur pankration
      • Baguazhang
      • Bando
      • Bartitsu
      • Bujinkan
      • Hapkido
      • Hwa Rang Do
      • Jeet Kune Do
      • Kajukenbo
      • Kalarippayattu
      • Krav Maga
      • Kuk Sool Won
      • MCMAP
      • Mixed martial arts
      • Northern Praying Mantis
      • Ninjutsu
      • Pankration
      • Pencak Silat
      • Sanshou
      • Shidōkan Karate
      • Shōrin-ryū Shidōkan
      • Shoot boxing
      • Shootfighting
      • Shorinji Kempo
      • Systema
      • T’ai chi ch’uan
      • Vajra-mushti
      • Vale tudo
      • Vovinam
      • Xingyiquan
    4. Weapons

      • Two kendōka.
      • Axe throwing
      • Battōjutsu
      • Boffer fighting
      • Eskrima
      • Egyptian stick fencing
      • Fencing
      • Gatka
      • Hojōjutsu
      • Iaidō
      • Iaijutsu
      • Jōdō
      • Jogo do pau
      • Jūkendō
      • Juttejutsu
      • Kendo
      • Kenjutsu
      • Kung fu
      • Kyūdō
      • Kyūjutsu
      • Modern Arnis
      • Naginatajutsu
      • Nguni stick-fighting
      • Okinawan kobudō
      • Shurikenjutsu
      • Silambam
      • Sōjutsu
      • Swordfighting
      • Wushu
      • Kumdo
      • Wing Chun
    5. Skirmish

      • Airsoft
      • Laser tag
      • Paintball
  5. Motorsports

    1. Auto racing

      • Autocross (aka Slalom)
      • Autograss
      • Banger racing
      • Board track racing
      • Demolition derby
      • Desert racing
      • Dirt track racing
      • Drag racing
      • Drifting
      • Folkrace
      • Formula racing
      • Formula Libre
      • Formula Student
      • Hillclimbing
      • Ice racing
      • Kart racing
      • Land speed records
      • Legends car racing
      • Midget car racing
      • Monster truck
      • Mud bogging
      • Off-road racing
      • Pickup truck racing
      • Production car racing
      • Race of Champions
      • Rally raid
      • Rallycross
      • Rallying
      • Regularity rally
      • Road racing
      • Short track motor racing
      • Snowmobile racing
      • Sports car racing
      • Sprint car racing
      • Street racing
      • Stock car racing
      • Time attack
      • Tractor pulling
      • Touring car racing
      • Truck racing
      • Vintage racing
      • Wheelstand competition
    2. Motorboat racing

      • Drag boat racing
      • F1 powerboat racing
      • Hydroplane racing
      • Jet sprint boat racing
      • Offshore powerboat racing
      • Personal water craft
    3. Motorcycle racing

      • Auto Race
      • Board track racing
      • Cross-country rally
      • Endurance racing
      • Enduro
      • Freestyle Motocross
      • Grand Prix motorcycle racing
      • Grasstrack
      • Hillclimbing
      • Ice racing
      • Ice speedway
      • Indoor enduro
      • Motocross
      • Motorcycle drag racing
      • Motorcycle speedway
      • Off-roading
      • Rally raid
      • Road racing
      • Superbike racing
      • Supercross
      • Supermoto
      • Supersport racing
      • Superside
      • Track racing
      • Trial
      • TT racing
      • Free-style moto
    4. Electronic sports

      • Model aerobatics
      • RC racing
      • Robot combat
      • Slot car racing
  6. Riding

    1. Bicycle

      • Artistic cycling
      • BMX
      • Cyclo-cross
      • Cross-country mountain biking
      • Cycle polo
      • Cycle speedway
      • Downhill mountain biking
      • Dirt jumping
      • Freestyle BMX
      • Hardcourt Bike Polo
      • Road bicycle racing
      • Track cycling
      • Underwater cycling
    2. Skibob

      • Skibobbing
    3. Unicycle

      • Unicycling
      • Mountain unicycling
      • Unicycle trials
      • Unicycle hockey
      • Unicycle basketball
    4. Equine sports

      • Buzkashi
      • Barrel racing
      • Campdrafting
      • Cirit
      • Charreada
      • Chilean rodeo
      • Cross country
      • Dressage
      • Endurance riding
      • English pleasure
      • Equitation
      • Eventing
      • Equestrian vaulting
      • Gymkhana
      • Harness racing
      • Horse racing
      • Horseball
      • Hunter
      • Hunter-jumpers
      • Jousting
      • Polo
      • Pato
      • Reining
      • Rodeo
      • Show jumping
      • Steeplechase
      • Team penning
      • Tent pegging
      • Western pleasure
      • Polocrosse
  7. Board sports

    1. Skate

      • Aggressive inline skating
      • Artistic roller skating
      • Figure skating
      • Freestyle slalom skating
      • Ice dancing
      • Ice skating
      • Inline speed skating
      • Rinkball
      • Rink hockey
      • Roller derby
      • Roller skating
      • Short track speed skating
      • Skater hockey
      • Speed skating
      • Synchronized skating
    2. Skateboarding

      • Skateboarding
    3. Scootering

      • Casterboarding
      • Freeboard (skateboard)
      • Longboarding
      • Streetboarding
    4. Skysurfing

      • Skysurfing
    5. Streetluge

      • Streetluge
    6. Snowboarding

      • Mountainboarding
      • Sandboarding
      • Snowkiting
    7. Surfing

      • Wakesurfing
      • Bodyboarding
      • Riverboarding
      • Skimboarding
      • Windsurfing
    8. Wakeboarding

      • Kneeboarding
      • Pennyboarding
  8. Winter sports

    1. Skiing

      • Alpine skiing
      • Cross-country skiing
      • Freestyle skiing
      • Nordic combined
      • Nordic skiing
      • Ski jumping
      • Skijoring
      • Ski touring
      • Speed skiing
      • Telemark skiing
    2. Ice sports

      • BandyRink bandy
        • Broomball
      • Curling
      • Ice hockey
      • Ringette
      • Ice yachting
      • Figure skating
    3. Sled sports

      • Bobsleigh
      • Luge
      • Skibobbing
      • Skeleton
      • Toboggan
  9. Table sports

    1. Table sports

      • Table football
      • Table hockey
      • Table tennis (aka ping pong)
    2. Cue sports

      • Carom billiards
        • Three-cushion
        • Five-pins
        • Balkline and straight rail
        • Cushion caroms
        • Four-ball (yotsudama)
        • Artistic billiards
      • Novuss (and cued forms of carrom)
      • Pocket billiards (pool)Eight-ball
        • Blackball (a.k.a. British eight-ball pool)
        • Nine-ball
        • Straight pool (14.1 continuous)
        • One-pocket
        • 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
        • Cutthroat
        • Killer
        • Russian pyramid
      • Snooker
        • American snooker
        • Sinuca brasileira
        • Six-red snooker
        • Snooker plus
      • Hybrid carom–pocket games
        • English billiards
        • Bottle pool
        • Cowboy
        • Obstacle variationsBagatelle
        • Bar billiards
        • Bumper pool
    3. Strategy board games

      • Arimaa
      • Backgammon
      • Chess
        • Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess)
        • Losing chess
      • Checkers
      • Chinese checkers
      • Diplomacy
      • Dominoes
      • Draughts
      • Go
      • Go-Moku
      • Jacquet
      • Mancala
      • Mahjong
      • Risk
      • Scrabble
      • Shogi
      • Sholo Guti
      • Sogo (Score four)
      • Stratego
      • Sudoku
      • Xiangqi (Chinese chess)
      • Air hockey
      • Beer Pong
      • Connect Four
      • Dominoes
      • Headis
      • Janggi
      • Reversi (aka Othello)
      • Scrabble
      • Subbuteo
  10. Target sports

    1. Golf

      • Match play
      • Skins game
      • Stroke play
      • Team play
        • Shotgun start
      • Speed golf
      • Miniature golf
    2. Archery

      • Field archery
      • Flight archery
      • Gungdo
      • Indoor archery
      • Kyūdō
      • Popinjay
      • Target archery
    3. Flying disc sports

      • Beach ultimate
      • Disc dog
      • Disc golf
      • Disc golf (urban)
      • Dodge disc
      • Double disc court
      • Flutterguts
      • Freestyle
      • Freestyle competition
      • Fricket (aka disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks and crispy wickets)
      • Goaltimate
      • Guts
      • Hot box
      • Ringo
    4. Hunting

      • Beagling
      • Big game hunting
      • Deer hunting
      • Fox hunting
      • Hare coursing
      • Wolf hunting
    5. Shooting sports

      • Clay pigeon shooting
        • Skeet shooting
        • Trap shooting
        • Sporting clays
      • Target shooting
        • Field target
        • Fullbore target rifle
        • High power rifle
        • Benchrest shooting
        • Metallic silhouette
        • Practical shooting
        • Cowboy action shooting
      • Metallic silhouette shooting
  11. Watersports

    1. Competitive swimming

      • Backstroke
      • Breaststroke
      • Butterfly stroke
      • Freestyle swimming
      • Individual medley
      • Synchronized swimming
      • Medley relay
    2.  Fishing

      • Angling
      • Big-game fishing
      • Casting
      • Noodling
      • Spearfishing
      • Sport fishing
      • Surf fishing
      • Rock fishing
      • Fly fishing
      • Ice fishing
    3. Sailing

      • Ice yachting
      • Land sailing
      • Land windsurfing
      • Sailing
      • Windsurfing
      • Kiteboarding
      • Dinghy sailing
    4. Canoeing

      • Outrigger canoeing
      • Kayaking
      • Main article: Kayaking
      • Creeking
      • Flyak
      • Freeboating
      • Royaking
      • Sea kayaking
      • Squirt boating
      • Surf kayaking
      • Whitewater kayaking
    5. Rafting

      • Rafting
      • White water rafting
    6. Rowing

      • Rowing (sport)
      • Gig racing
      • Coastal and ocean rowing
        • Surfboat
      • Single scull
    7. Other paddling sports

      • Dragon boat racing
    8. Aquatic ball sports

      • Water polo
      • Canoe polo
      • Waboba
      • Underwater football
      • Underwater rugby
      • Underwater hockey
    9. Kindred activities

      • Bifins (finswimming)
      • Surface finswimming
    10. Subsurface and recreational

      • Apnoea finswimming
      • Aquathlon (underwater wrestling)
      • Freediving
      • Immersion finswimming
      • Scuba diving
      • Spearfishing
      • Snorkelling
      • Sport diving (sport)
      • Underwater hockey
      • Underwater orienteering
      • Underwater photography (sport)
      • Underwater target shooting
    11. Diving

      • Diving
  12. Other Sports

    1. Baton twirling

      • Baton twirling
    2. Competitive dance

      • Competitive dance
    3. Catch games

      • Curving
      • Dodgeball
      • Ga-ga
      • Keep away
      • Kin-Ball
      • Newcomb ball
      • Quidditch
      • Rundown (aka Pickle)
      • Yukigassen
    4. Tag games

      • British bulldogs (American Eagle)
      • Capture the flag
      • Hana Ichi Monme
      • Hide and seek
      • Jugger
      • Kabaddi
      • Kho kho
      • Kick the can
      • Oztag
      • Red rover
      • Tag
    5. Gymnastics

      • Artistic gymnastics
        • Balance beam
        • Floor
        • High bar
        • Parallel bars
        • Pommel horse
        • Still rings
        • Uneven bars
        • Vault
      • Juggling
      • Rhythmic gymnastics
        • Ball
        • Club
        • Hoop
        • Ribbon
        • Rope
      • Rope jumping
      • Sports acrobatics
      • Sports aerobics
      • Slacklining
      • Trampolining
      • Trapeze
        • Flying trapeze
        • Static trapeze
      • Tumbling
    6. Mixed discipline

      • Adventure racing
      • Biathlon
      • Duathlon
      • Decathlon
      • Heptathlon
      • Icosathlon
      • Modern pentathlon
      • Pentathlon
      • Triathlon
      • Woodsman
    7. Street sports

      • Free running
      • Freestyle footbag
      • Freestyle football
      • Powerbocking
      • Parkour
    8. Stacking

      • Sport stacking
    9. Walking

      • Hiking
      • Backpacking (wilderness)
      • Racewalking
      • Bushwhacking
      • Walking
    10. Marker sports

      • Airsoft
      • Archery
      • Paintball
    11. Other

      • Stihl Timbersports Series
    12. Climbing

      • Rock climbing
        • Bouldering
        • Deep-water soloing
        • Sport climbing
        • Traditional climbing
      • Aid climbing
      • Ice climbing
      • Mixed climbing
      • Abseiling
      • Mountaineering
      •  Other
        • Canyoning (Canyoneering)
        • Hiking
        • Rope climbing
        • Pole climbing
        • Coasteering
    13. Orienteering family

      • Geocaching
      • Orienteering
      • Rogaining
      • Letterboxing
      • Waymarking
    14. Strength sports

      • Arm wrestling
      • Strongman
      • Thumb wrestling
      • Toe wrestling
      • Tug-o-war
      • Wood chopping
      • Wood splitting
      • Zourkhaneh
      • Weightlifting
        • Basque traditional weightlifting
        • Bodybuilding
        • Highland games
        • Olympic weightlifting
        • Powerlifting
        • Strength athletics (strongman)
        • Steinstossen

We use our own sport classification based on Wikipedia list of sports (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports).

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