List of sports

The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category.

Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball over a net using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely the body: Games involving opponents hitting/throwing a ball against walls or any rebounding surface using a racket, or other piece of equipment, or merely gloved/barehanded: Games that use both walls and net Sports that are played with some sort of board as the primary equipment.

Decathlon, heptathlon, and the pentathlons consist of ten, seven, and five-component contests that are scored together using one points system.

Sports involving the use of motorized vehicles Sport Parkour and Freerunning are empirically measured competitions of skill, speed or style on an obstacle based course.

Human-powered vehicles propelled by pedals Sports using bicycles, quadracycles, tricycles or unicycles.

Cheerleading
Wingsuit flying
Lawn bowls
Bowling
Golf player using a putter to score
Basketball player Dwight Howard making a slam dunk at the 2008 Summer Olympics .
A 7-meter throw in Handball .
Match of lacrosse
A polo player.
An international match of volleyball .
A game of squash
Tennis
Table tennis
Skateboard vert jump at the Sprite urban games 2006 in London .
Snowboard figure at the 2008 Shakedown
Surfing in Hawaii
Two men compete in freestyle wrestling .
A kick in kickboxing .
Ground fighting in MMA .
Axe throwing at the Ming Culture Village, a theme park near the Yangshan Quarry , China
Two kendōka.
Australia vs Canada ultimate players WUGC 2012 in Japan. Ultimate Canada
The three components of triathlon: swimming, cycling, running
Formula 1 motorboat
The start of a Formula One race in 2008
MotoGP racing
ATV racing on a motocross track
Members of the Gotemba Kyūdō Association demonstrate Kyūdō.
Laser-run
A ski jumper using the V-style
Freestyle skiing
United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield , 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form.
Kabaddi
Rafting
Windsurfing
Greece Hungary water polo match (World Junior Championship 2004 Naples , Italy )
North Korean weightlifter Pak Hyon-suk performing the snatch , one of the two lifts in the sport of Olympic weightlifting .
Horse racing at Arlington Park , 2007
Barrel racing
Bridge
Dogic
A game of mahjong being played in Hangzhou, China
Beach tennis
Paintball
A snowboarder and a skier
Arm wrestling
Air hockey
Jack and Jill competition, Lumberjack World Championships , Hayward, Wisconsin , 2007.