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.
- 3v3 Soccer, Panna, Street Football
- Paramotoring - motorized paragliding (sport at the Asian Beach Games)
- Remote Control Car Racing
- Welsh Handball
- Kyūdō - traditional Japanese form of archery
- 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.
- Raffa (type of boules)
- 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?
- Crown green bowls - lawn bowling with a raised surface.
- Table hockey
- 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.
- Cocked Hat Bowling - a form of bowling using only 3 pins and a duckpin ball
- Types of Cricket: Beach Cricket, Tape-Ball or tennis ball cricket, backyard (street, gully) cricket, French Cricket.
- catch-as-catch-can wrestling - basic wrestling style in which nearly all holds and tactics are permitted in both upright and ground wrestling.
- Cornish Wrestling - a style of wrestling developed and still practiced in southwestern England.
- Cumberland wrestling - a form of wrestling developed in northern England and southern Scotland, also called the North Country style.
- Blind Golf
- 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.
- Crossage - sport practiced in the south of Belgium and the North of France. Some see it as an ancestor of golf.
- Sjoelen - Dutch Shuffleboard
- Netball variations: mixed netball, walking netball and netball for those with a disability, including deaf netball and wheelchair netball.
- Inner tube water polo - players, excluding the goalkeeper, are required to float in inflatable inner tubes.
- Street Football (American)
- Chaza - (also pelota naciona or national ball) is a Colombian racquet sport (like tennis) and national sport of Ecuador.
- Pursuit Cycling - a type of track cycling
- Motor-paced cycling - competition in which each bicycle racer competes behind a motorbike or motorcycle.
- Six-day race - indoor bicycle racing in which riders race continuously for six days with only brief stops for a rest and refreshment.
- 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.
- Bronc Riding
- 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.
- Yoga Asana - the sporting version of yoga (only just begining as a sport).
- The sailing sports of Dingy racing and Yachting.
- 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.
- Indigenous North American stickball
- Amputee Football
- Volleyball Variations:
- Ecuavóley - a three-person variation of volleyball from Ecuador. Also called Ecua-volley. It is a variant of volleyball invented and played in Ecuador. Differences include a higher net and the use of a soccer ball.
- 9-Man Volleyball - a variation of volleyball utilizing nine players and a slightly larger court, originated in Asia in the 1920s.
- Mud Volleyball - including OOzeball, an annual mud volleyball tournament
- Volley Squash - a form of volleyball played within a squash court (different to Wallyball?)
- Table Squash - an evolution of table tennis
- Squash Tennis (extinct?)
- Kalaripayattu - an Indian martial art
- golf variations: park golf, GolfCross (a type of urban golf or new sport? see Cross Golf)
- more Motorcycle Track Racing versions: grasstrack, flat track.
- SCA armoured combat sport - battling in armour
- Budo - Japanese archery/wrestling/fencing
- 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.
- Weight pulling, Treibball and Carting - dog sports and maybe not really sports
- Steinstossen - the Swiss variant of the Stone Put, a competition of throwing a heavy stone.
- Bean Bag Toss - part of the World Police and Fire Games 2017
- Keshi (a lot like all-round 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.
- Schleuderball - a sport that originated in the Northwest Germany (not widely played).
- Ringo - a sport played mainly in Poland (not widely played, limited details).
- Beugelen - Netherlands traditional sport?
- Mini Basketball - a social form of basketball with a size 3 ball.
- Kolven / Kolf - Netherlands traditional sport?
- Typesetting and typing competitions - are these sports?
- Dog Powered Scooter - dog mushing on a scooter - not a sport?
- Yo-Yo Contests - is it a toy, a sport?
- Fire Fighter Games events
Related Pages
- See out list of new sports
- Some questionable sports
- Alphabetical list of all sports
- The Encyclopedia of Sports