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Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve one's physical health.
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Types of Sports
Before enumerating the list of known sports, let us first discuss their classifications. Sports are classified either according to the primary equipment used or to the setting where it is played. Here are the different types of sports:
Air Sports
Air sports include a vast domain of aerial activities done as sporting events.
Athletics
Athletics refers to sports events that test the athlete’s endurance, strength, and speed. It involves competitive running, walking, jumping, and throwing.
Ball Sports
Ball sports are those games that use a ball in play. This includes various categories, including ball-over-net, ball-and-bat, and ball-and-stick games.
Board Sports
These types of sports are played with a specific board used as primary equipment. Examples of this type are surfing and skateboarding.
Combat Sports
Combat sports are also called fighting sports. It is a competitive contact sport that involves one-on-one combat. It covers all martial arts and ancient fighting events, whether they use brute force or specific weapons.
Cycle Sports
Cycling, or cycle sports, includes all competitive physical activities that use bicycles. They can be carried out as a race or a performance that shows tricks through using bikes.
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is the performance of systematic exercises that requires and shows balance, flexibility, coordination, strength, and overall physical conditioning. These are often done by using different apparatuses, such as rings, beams, and bars.
Ice Sports
Ice sports, as its name suggests, include sporting events that are performed in an ice field. They are mostly held during winter sports competition.
Indoor Sports
These are those games that do not require an open field to be played. They can be carried out at home or in a specially structured indoor setting. Most table-top games are indoor ones. Some outdoor sports were developed to be played indoors, too. Examples of these are indoor cricket and indoor soccer.
Mind Sports
A mind sport is a game based on a particular intellectual ability to strategize and win competitions. It does not need arduous physical exercise and movement of the body. Therefore, it requires more mental than physical skills.
Multisport Race
This refers to the events that consist of components upholding different sports. It mixes a group of disciplines, usually athletics, that are performed consecutively. Examples of this type are the triathlon, tetrathlon, pentathlon, and so on.
Motorsports
This is the general term referring to the various competitive sporting events that utilize motorized vehicles for racing or non-racing competitions.
Racket Sports
Racket sports encompasses all games that involve hitting a ball or another object through the use of rackets. These types of sports showcase and improve the agility and speed of the players.
Strength Sports
The focus of this type of sport is an athlete’s muscular strength and capability. A strength athlete trains and competes by showing his muscle build or power. Examples of these sports are weightlifting, powerlifting, and bodybuilding.
Target Sports
This refers to competitive games that involve throwing or shooting a piece of equipment to hit a target. It enhances focus and concentration and promotes patience.
Water Sports
Water sports covers all sporting events played or performed in water.
Sports List
Here is a list of sports arranged alphabetically:
- Acrobatics
- Aerobic Gymnastics
- Archery
- Arnis
- Artistic Gymnastics
- Artistic Swimming
- Badminton
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Baton Twirling
- Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
- Billiards/ Pool (U.S.)
- Bobsleigh
- Bodybuilding
- Bowling
- Boxing
- Canoeing
- Car Racing
- Cheerleading
- Chess
- Cricket
- Croquet
- Curling
- Dance Sport
- Darts
- Diving
- Dodgeball
- Fencing
- Figure Skating
- Football (U.K)/ Soccer (U.S., Australia)
- Frisbee
- Golf
- Handball
- Hang Gliding
- Hockey
- Horseback Riding
- Horse Racing
- Ice Hockey
- Ice Skating
- Jet Ski Racing
- Judo
- Karate
- Kayaking
- Kendo
- Kick Boxing
- Kite Surfing
- Lacrosse
- Luge
- Mixed Martial Arts
- Motocross
- Muay Thai
- Paintball
- Parachuting
- Paragliding
- Parkour
- Polo
- Pool/Billiards
- Powerlifting
- Rafting
- Rhythmic Gymnastics
- Rock Climbing
- Rowing
- Rugby
- Sailing
- Sandboarding
- Scuba Diving
- Shooting
- Skateboarding
- Skeleton
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Softball
- Speed Skating
- Sport Climbing
- Squash
- Sumo Wrestling
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Synchronized Skating
- Synchronized Swimming
- Table Tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Track and Field
- Trampolining
- Triathlon (Tetrathlon, etc.)
- Tug of War
- Volleyball
- Water Polo
- Weightlifting
- Windsurfing
- Wrestling..
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