Aikido  

American football

Angling 

Aquathlon 

Archery  

Athletics  

Badminton  

Basketball  

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a high hoop under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world.

Baseball  

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Biathlon  

Biathlon is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Another popular variant is summer biathlon, which combines cross-country running with riflery, and also modern biathlon and biathle, which combine running with swimming.

BMX  

BMX cycling is thought to have started in the 1970s in the US, when people started modifying their bikes to make something a bit more exciting to ride on.
At first they used the new tougher bikes to try some of the cool tricks they saw motocross riders do.
As well as BMX racing, riders can also take part in freestyle events, which are all about who pull off the most spectacular jumps.

Boccia  

Boccia is a traditional recreational sport for athletes who require a wheelchair because of physical disability. Its name is derived from the Latin word for ball – bottia. It was originally designed to be played by people with cerebral palsy but now includes athletes with other severe disabilities affecting motor skills.

Bowls  

Bowls is a sport in which the goal is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, closest to a smaller—normally white—bowl called the "jack" or "kitty". Bowls, either flat- or crown-green, is usually played outdoors, on grass and synthetic surfaces. Flat-green bowls can also be played indoors on synthetic surfaces. Both variants are collectively known as "lawn bowls".

Boxing  

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds.

Canoeing  

Canoeing is the activity of paddling a canoe for the purpose of sport or transportation. It usually refers exclusively to using a paddle to propel a canoe with only human muscle power. A kayak is propelled using a paddle with two blades where paddlers sit with their legs mostly extended in front of them, whereas canoes are propelled using single- or double-bladed paddles where the paddler - a "canoeist" or "canoer"- is kneeling or sitting on seat or thwart, with their knees bent and their legs more or less beneath them.

Cricket  

Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England.

Croquet  

Croquet is a lawn game, played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport, which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing court.

Curling  

Curling is a team game with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice. Teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones down the ice towards the target called the house. Two sweepers with brooms accompany each rock and use timing equipment and their best judgment, along with direction from their teammates, to help direct the stones to their resting place.

Cycling

Darts  

Darts is a form of throwing sport where darts are thrown at a circular target called a dartboard hung on a wall. As well as being a professional competitive activity, darts is a traditional pub game, commonly played in the United Kingdom.

Disability sport  

Disability sports are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports. However, not all disabled sports are adapted; several sports that have been specifically created for persons with a disability have no equivalent in able-bodied sports. Disability exists in four categories: - physical - mental - permanent – temporary.

Diving  

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. Diving is one of the most popular Olympic sports with spectators. Competitors possess many of the same characteristics as gymnasts and dancers, including strength, flexibility, kinesthetic judgment and air awareness.

Dodgeball  

A game in which players on one team try to eliminate players on another by hitting them with an inflated ball.

Duathlon  

Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format bearing some resemblance to triathlons.

Equestrian  

Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving horses. This broad description includes both use of horses for practical, working purposes as well as recreational activities and competitive sports. 

Fencing  

Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned. Examples include swords, knives, pikes, bayonets, batons, clubs, and similar weapons. In contemporary common usage, fencing tends to refer specifically to European schools of swordsmanship and to the modern Olympic sport that has evolved out of them. Fencing is one of four sports which has been featured at every modern Olympic Games.

Floorball  

Floorball, a type of floor hockey, is an indoor team sport which was developed in the 1970s. It is a fast paced sport, with limited physical contact allowed.

Futsal  

Futsal is a variant of association football that is mainly played indoors. Its name is derived from the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón, which can be translated as "hall football." Futsal is played between two teams of five players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, and up to seven substitutes per team. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a regulation football. The rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.

Football  

Football is the name of several similar team sports, all of which involve (to varying degrees) kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". However the word football is applied to whichever form of football became most popular in each particular part of the world. Hence the English language word "football" is applied to "gridiron football" (a name associated with the North American sports, especially American football and Canadian football), Australian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union, and related games. These rule variations are known as "codes."

Gliding  

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders using rising air to gain altitude or speed. The word soaring is also used for the sport

Golf  

Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players, using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes.

Gymnastics  

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance and grace. Artistic gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports. Artistic Gymnastics, typically involves the women's events of uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault. Men's events include floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars, and high bar. Gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, that included skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and from circus performance skills. Other forms of gymnastics are rhythmic gymnastics, various trampolining sports, and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.

Handball  

Handball is a fast and exciting game.
It's easy to learn and fun to play. A team made of 7 players move around bouncing or passing the ball (after up to 3 steps), while the opposite team defend against them, trying to intercept the ball.

Hang gliding and paragliding  

Hockey  

Hockey is a fast and fun game played between two teams of 11 players.
In some ways it's a bit like football - the pitch is the same size and the winner is the team who scores the most goals.
But unlike footie, the players use sticks to hit a small, hard plastic ball. And there's no off-side, you mainly play on an artificial pitch - and unless you're the goalie, you definitely can't use your feet! (defenders, midfielders and attackers). A match is 70 minutes, divided into two halves. Goalies wear lots of protective clothing including a helmet with a grill across their face.

Horse Racing

Horse Riding

Ice hockey  

Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a puck into the opposing team's goal. It is a fast-paced and physical sport. With the advent of indoor artificial ice rinks it has become a year-round pastime in these areas.

Ice skating  

Ice skating is moving on ice by use of ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks.

Judo  

Judo meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either, throw an opponent to the ground, immobilise or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking the elbow or by executing a choke. Strikes and thrusts (by hands and feet)—as well as weapons defences—are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice (randori).

Ju jitsu  

Jujutsu literally meaning the "art of softness", or "way of yielding", is a collective name for Japanese martial art styles including unarmed and armed techniques. Jujutsu evolved among the samurai of feudal Japan as a method for defeating an armed and armoured opponent without weapons. Due to the ineffectiveness of striking against an armoured opponent, the most efficient methods for neutralising an enemy took the form of pins, joint locks, and throws. These techniques were developed around the principle of using an attacker's energy against him, rather than directly opposing it.

Karate  

Karate is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands (Okinawa) from indigenous fighting methods. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes. Grappling, locks, restraints, throws, and vital point strikes are taught in some styles.

Korfball

Korfball is a mixed gender team ball game, similar to mixed netball and basketball. Korfball is played indoors or outdoors on a court divided into halves called zones. In each zone is a post, shorter for children with a basket at the top. This is positioned two thirds of the distance between the center line and the back of the zone. The ball is similar in size as those used in football but with more grip and bounce. Players score by throwing the ball through the other team's basket. After two goals the teams change zones: defenders become attackers and attackers become defenders. At half-time teams swap halves.

Lacrosse  

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the lacrosse ball. Offensively, the objective of the game is to use the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball in an effort to score by ultimately hurling the ball into an opponent's goal. Defensively, the objective is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to depossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact or positioning.

Lawn tennis  

Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court.

Modern pentathlon  

The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run.

Motor cycling

Motor sports

Mountain biking  

Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes or hybrid/cross road bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.

Mountaineering  

Mountaineering is the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, backpacking and climbing mountains.

Netball  

Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. The sport shares many similarities with basketball, having been derived from early versions of women's basketball. It developed as a distinct sport in the 1890s in England, from where it spread to other countries. Netball is popular in Commonwealth nations and is predominantly played by women.

Octopush  

Octopush (also called Underwater hockey) is a non-contact sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into goals.

Orienteering  

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain. Participants are given a map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering.

Parachuting  

Polo  

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played at speed on a large grass field up to 300 yards in length, and each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts.

Polocrosse

Pool  

Pool is a classic game enjoyed by many for centuries. Many use the term ‘billiards’ in place of pool and vice versa. This game is played on a six-pocket table with two white balls and one red; players could score either by making a billiard upon the two object balls, by pocketing the red, or by pocketing one’s own ball after contact with an object ball. It’s mostly agreed that little was known of billiards until the 12th century, and in its earliest times, it was played on a lawn, like croquet. Pockets were most likely added to the table in the late 1700’s. Pool is the modernized version of this classic game; it retains its original six-pocket table but has fifteen different coloured balls and one white ball (the cue ball). The fifteen balls are also distinguished by stripes or solids.

Racketball  

Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court. Joe Sobek is credited with inventing racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to the game to increase velocity and control. Unlike most racquet sports, such as tennis or badminton, the court's walls, floor, and ceiling are legal playing surfaces, rather than out-of-bounds.

Rambling  

Rambling is a form of walking that generally takes place in the countryside. As it requires nothing more strenuous than walking, rambling is one of the simplest forms of exercise, and one of the least expensive.

Real tennis  

Roller sports

Rounders  

Rounders is a game played between two teams each alternating between batting and fielding. The game originates in England and has been played there since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1745. It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat and then running around four bases in order to score.

Rowing  

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water. The sport can be both recreational, focusing on learning the techniques required, and competitive where overall fitness plays a large role. It is also one of the oldest Olympic sports.

Rugby League  

Rugby League is a full-contact team game, played with a prolate spheroid ball by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. Rugby League is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being Rugby Union. Over the decades following the 1895 birth of Rugby League, the rules of both forms of Rugby were gradually changed, with Rugby League's deliberately resulting in a faster and more open spectator sport, and now it and Rugby Union are distinctly different games. Rugby League is frequently cited as the toughest and most physically demanding of any team sport in the world.

Rugby Union  

Rugby Union is a full contact team sport, a form of football which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the codes of Rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball, outdoors on a level field, usually with a grass surface, 100 m long and 70 m wide. At each end of the field is an H-shaped goal. William Webb Ellis is often credited with the invention of running with the ball in hand in 1823 at Rugby School when he allegedly caught the ball while playing football and ran towards the opposition goal.

Sailing and yachting

Shooting  

Show jumping  

Show jumping is an equestrian sport which involves navigating a course of jumps set up inside a ring, a stadium designed for equestrian events. In addition to existing as a standalone discipline, show jumping is also integrated into many combination competitions, such as the modern pentathlon and eventing. In a show jumping event, the stamina, speed, and flexibility of the horse are tested.

Skateboarding  

Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or just skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an artform, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years.

Skater hockey (roller)  

Skater hockey is team sport played with a plastic ball. The game is played using inline roller skates or quad skates. Skater Hockey is played by two teams, and each team is permitted to have 5 players on the pitch, usually four outfield players and a goalkeeper. The rink (40mx20m) is divided in two halves with a goal in each end. A game last 3 periods of 15 minutes each. Skater Hockey is a contact sport and has similar set of rules to Ice Hockey.

Skiing

Snooker  

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. It is played using a cue and snooker balls. Snooker, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers, is particularly popular in many Commonwealth countries.

Snowboarding  

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a flexible mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, surfing and skiing.

Softball  

Softball is a team sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball. Some key differences between softball and baseball are that softballs are larger than baseballs, and pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand. Softball was invented by George Hancock in Chicago, Illinois. The first softball game was played using a rolled up boxing glove as a ball and a broomstick as a bat.

Speedway

Speed skating (roller)  

Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating and marathon speed skating. 

Squash  

Squash is a racquet sport played by two players or four players for doubles in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.

Stoolball  

Stoolball is a sport that dates back to at least the 15th century, originating in Sussex, southern England. It may be an ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles). Traditionally it was played by milkmaids who used their milking stools as a "wicket".

Sub aqua

Surfing  

Surfing is a water sport in which athletes ride breaking waves into shore on a surfboard. The sport has spawned a number of offshoots, including wake boarding, skim boarding, skateboarding, and windsurfing, among others. Surfing is a dynamic sport which can be practiced by people at all levels of ability.

Swimming

Table tennis  

Table tennis is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules. Play is fast and demands quick reactions. A skilled player can impart several varieties of spin to the ball, altering its trajectory and limiting an opponent's options to great advantage.

Taekwondo  

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way," "method," or "art." Thus, "taekwondo" may be loosely translated as "the way of the foot and fist" or "the way of kicking and punching."

Tang Soo Do  

Tang Soo Do is a Korean martial art that has roots in various styles of martial arts, including Shotokan karate, taekkyeon, and in some schools Shaolin kung fu.

Tenpin bowling  

Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.

Trampolining  

Trampolining is a competitive Olympic sport in which gymnasts perform acrobatics while bouncing on a trampoline. These can include simple jumps in the pike, tuck or straddle position to more complex combinations of forward or backward somersaults and twists. There are two related competitive rebound sports, synchronized trampoline and double mini-trampoline.

Triathlon  

A triathlon is a multi-sport endurance event consisting of swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall course completion time, including timed "transitions" between the individual swim, bike, and run components.

Ultimate (Frisbee)  

Ultimate is a limited-contact team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby. Players may not run while holding the disc.

Volleyball  

Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organised rules.

Wakeboarding  

Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques.

Water polo  

Water polo is a team water sport. It is the oldest continuous Olympic team sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper with a maximum of six substitutes. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a net defended by a goalie. Water polo, therefore, has strong similarities to the land-based game of team handball.

Water skiing  

Waterskiing is a sport where an individual or more than one individual is pulled behind a motor boat or a cable ski installation on a body of water.

Weightlifting

Windsurfing

Yoga