Suggested Sports for our Lists
We have a huge list of sports, which includes all the major sports in the world, plus regional and traditional sports and many many more. There are plenty of sports from around the world that have yet to be listed. If you know of a sport that should be listed, please let me know. Also check our list of unusual sports (mostly games or one-off events), new sports and extinct sports.
List of Suggested Sports
Here is my list of sports which may or may not be added to our list of sports, as details are yet to be found, or I just have not got around to it.
- 3v3 Soccer, Panna, Street Football
- Amputee Football
- Angleball (no competitions)
- Bean Bag Toss - part of the World Police and Fire Games 2017
- Blind Golf
- Beugelen - Netherlands traditional sport?
- Bont - a ball game originating from Southern France (no details)
- Budo - Japanese archery/wrestling/fencing
- Buschball (new sport) - a combination of football and crossgolf.
- Bronc Riding
- Canary wrestling or Canarian Wrestling is a form of folk wrestling, originally from the Canary Islands, where it is known as Lucha Canaria.
- Catch-as-catch-can wrestling - basic wrestling style in which nearly all holds and tactics are permitted in both upright and ground wrestling.
- Chaza - (also pelota naciona or national ball) is a Colombian racquet sport (like tennis) and national sport of Ecuador.
- Chinese Qianlongball - no details found. Qianball is derived from this.
- Cornish Wrestling - a style of wrestling developed and still practiced in southwestern England.
- Cosom Hockey - can't find details how it is different from street hockey.
- Cumberland wrestling - a form of wrestling developed in northern England and southern Scotland, also called the North Country style.
- Cocked Hat Bowling - a form of bowling using only 3 pins and a duckpin ball.
- Cricket Types: Beach Cricket, Tape-Ball or tennis ball cricket, backyard (street, gully) cricket, French Cricket.
- Crossage - sport practiced in the south of Belgium and the North of France. Some see it as an ancestor of golf.
- Crown green bowls - lawn bowling with a raised surface.
- Deck tennis — very similar to tennikoit, usually played recreationally. The scoring system in deck tennis is commonly the same as regular tennis, in contrast with tennikoit where sets are played similar to badminton.
- Dirtsurfing (new activity, not a competitive sport)
- Dingy racing and Yachting.
- Dog Powered Scooter - dog mushing on a scooter - not a sport?
- Fire Fighter Games events
- Freestyle Canoeing - also called canoe dancing, canoe ballet. Paddlers perform a range of acrobatic tricks and manoeuvres on a river feature such as a wave or hole. The competitive side of playboating is known as freestyle kayaking (formerly called rodeo). There is already playboating.
- "Fútbol de salon", also know as "fulbito", is a type of soccer normally played on basketball courts fitted with small goals, from Bolivia.
- GAMES: the 'questionable sport' of Draughts (checkers). Two games popular in Asia, Weiqi (Go) and Ziangqi, were on the Asian Games sports program in 2010.
- Golf variations: park golf, GolfCross (a type of urban golf or new sport? see Cross Golf)
- Hit Ball - invented by Italian physical education teacher Luigi Gigante in 1986 and in 1992 started a regular championship. Each team has 5 players and there are 2 goals at ends of court. (only descriptions in Italian)
- Horseboarding - participants are towed behind a horse on an off-road skateboard. Where do I put it? Is it a new sport, unusual sport or just a regular sport?
- Igent (Jadžent) - a sport from Serbia created in 1993 by Prof. Janko Pavlis. (poor description online and not widely played)
- Inner tube water polo - players, excluding the goalkeeper, are required to float in inflatable inner tubes.
there's lots of variations of netball- KanJam - a flying disc sport, throwing the frisbee into a rubbish can. They have a world championships, but its not widely played.
- Keshi (a lot like all-round wrestling) from Bhutan - no information available.
- Kolven / kolf - a game from the Netherlands (not widely played)
- Kyūdō - traditional Japanese form of archery.
- Miniten - mini tennis for naturalists (minor sport)
- Mini Basketball - a social form of basketball with a size 3 ball.
- Motorcycle Track Racing versions: grasstrack, flat track.
- Motor-paced cycling - competition in which each bicycle racer competes behind a motorbike or motorcycle.
- Netball variations: mixed netball, walking netball and netball for those with a disability, including deaf netball and wheelchair netball.
- Padbol - a fusion sport created in La Plata in 2008 (still developing)
- Pan Pong - is a hybrid of tennis and ping pong (not widely played)
- Paramotoring - motorized paragliding (sport at the Asian Beach Games)
- Pursuit Cycling - a type of track cycling
- Point-to-point - horse races during the non-hunting season by horses regularly ridden at fox hunts, originated as a way to keep hunters fit and were first called hunt races.
- Quarter-horse racing - racing horses for short distances on a straightaway course (originally a quarter of a mile, hence the name) - different from Thoroughbred Horse Racing.
- Raffa (type of boules)
- Remote Control Car Racing
- Ringo - a sport played mainly in Poland (not widely played, limited details).
- Rejoneo - a form of bullfighting in which the fighter is mounted on a horse and uses a short, broad blade fixed to a shaft to kill the bull.
- Roving - Archers set up many marks on the field and shot from one to the next in sequence, the object being, as in golf, to use the fewest shots in completing the course.
- Six-day race - indoor bicycle racing in which riders race continuously for six days with only brief stops for a rest and refreshment.
- Schleuderball - a sport that originated in the Northwest Germany (not widely played).
- SCA armoured combat sport - battling in armour
- Sjoelen - Dutch Shuffleboard
- Stickball - Indigenous North American stickball
- Snow rugby
- Special Hockey (also called adaptive hockey) is a version of ice hockey adapted for athletes with a developmental disability or cognitive disorder. It differs from ice sledge hockey which was developed for athletes with a physical disability.
- Squash Tennis (extinct?)
- Steinstossen - the Swiss variant of the Stone Put, a competition of throwing a heavy stone.
- Skate Cross - inline skate cross event.
- Street Football (American)
- Table hockey
- Table shuffleboard, and a Dutch variation known as Sjoelen / Sjoelbak. Also maybe add deck shuffleboard, floor shuffle board.
- Table Squash - an evolution of table tennis
- Track'athlon — the opening event in 'Dynamic New Athletics', a mixed-team, two-hour model of athletics that will debut at the 2019 European Games. Track'athlon is an athletics assault course that features a sled run, shot put toss, standing long jump, water jump and a medicine ball run for men in lap one and the same minus the medicine ball run - but including a parachute run - for women in lap two.
- Typesetting and typing competitions - are these sports?
- Underwater Swimming - a past Olympic event, however there is no wikipedia page or other online sources found.
- Volleyball Variations:
- Mud Volleyball - including OOzeball, an annual mud volleyball tournament
- Volley Squash - a form of volleyball played within a squash court (different to Wallyball?)
- 9-Man Volleyball — a Chinese variation of volleyball utilizing nine players and a slightly larger court, originated in Asia in the 1920s.
- Welsh Handball
- Weight pulling, Treibball and Carting - dog sports and maybe not really sports
- Yoga Asana - the sporting version of yoga (only just begining as a sport).
- Yo-Yo Contests - is it a toy, a sport?
Related Pages
- Suggested 'extinct sports'
- suggested 'unusual sports'
- See out list of new sports and suggested 'new sports'
- Some questionable sports
- Alphabetical list of all sports
- The Encyclopedia of Sports
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