Suggested Sports for our All Sports List
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.
- Ekiden - long distance runnung relays
- Demolition Derby car racing, a bit like Banger racing
- Budo - Japanese archery/wrestling/fencing
- the 'questionable sports' of contract Bridge and Draughts (checkers)
- Weight pulling, Treibball and Carting - dog sports and maybe not really sports
- Two games popular in Asia, Weiqi (Go) and Ziangqi, were on the Asian Games sports program in 2010.
- Steinstossen - the Swiss variant of the Stone Put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone.
- Bean Bag Toss - part of the World Police and Fire Games 2017
- Keshi (a lot like all around wrestling) from Bhutan - no information available
- Underwater Swimming - a past Olympic event, however there is no wikipedia page or other online sources found
- Table shuffleboard, and a Dutch variation known as Sjoelen / Sjoelbak. Also maybe add deck shuffleboard, floor shuffle board.
- Cosom Hockey - can't find details how it is different from street hockey.
- 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)
- Chinese Qianlongball - no details found. Qianball is derived from this.
- Igent (Jadžent) - a sport from Serbia created in 1993 by Prof. Janko Pavlis. (poor description online and not widely played)
- Miniten - mini tennis for naturalists (minor sport)
- Angleball (no competitions)
- Bont - a ball game originating from Southern France (no details)
- Buschball (new sport) - a combination of football and crossgolf.
- Dirtsurfing (new activity, not a competitive sport)
- Kolven / kolf - a game from the Netherlands (not widely played)
- 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)
- KanJam - a flying disc sport, throwing the frisbee into a rubbish can. They have a world championships, but its not widely played.
- Yoga Asana - the sporting version of yoga (only just begining as a sport).
- Schleuderball - a sport that originated in the Northwest Germany (not widely played).
- Ringo - a sport played mainly in Poland (not widely played, limited details).
- Typesetting and typing competitions - are these sports?
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Related Pages
- See out list of new sports
- Some questionable sports
- Alphabetical list of all sports
- The Encyclopedia of Sports