Sport/Related Articles

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List of current and proposed sports articles

This list is not exhaustive but proposals must be limited to high priority articles which will broaden essential coverage of the subject to enhance the reader's understanding.

• Air sports [r]: Generic term for various types of aeronautical competition. ^[e]
• Alpine combined skiing [r]: An event in alpine ski racing which is a combination of downhill and slalom. ^[e]
• Alpine skiing [r]: Method of skiing which involves travelling down a slope on skis with fixed heel bindings, in contrast to Nordic skiing. Events are downhill racing, slalom or a combination of the two. ^[e]
• American football [r]: A high-contact sport played by two teams of 11 players on a 100-yard field that originated in the United States of America. ^[e]
• Aquatics [r]: A term for water sports taking place in the water, subdivided into five distinct branches: swimming, water polo, diving, open water swimming, and synchronised swimming. ^[e]
• Archery [r]: An individual sport involving shooting at a target using a bow and arrow. ^[e]
• Association football [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Athletics [r]: The collective term for a group of athletic events in walking, running, jumping or throwing. ^[e]
• Australian rules football [r]: A form of football involving two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field. Players can kick or handle the ball. ^[e]
• Badminton [r]: An indoor game in which players on opposite sides of a net hit a shuttlecock with wire-strung racquets. ^[e]
• Bandy [r]: A winter team sport played with hockey sticks and a ball on a frozen field. Combines elements of ice hockey, field hockey and football. ^[e]
• Baseball [r]: A ball game, using a small spherical ball and a striker called a bat, played between two teams of 9 players each on a field with a diamond shaped circuit consisting of 4 bases. ^[e]
• Basketball [r]: A ball game played between two teams of 5 players, the objective of which is to throw the ball through one of a pair of hoops fixed above each end of the playing court. ^[e]
• Basque pelota [r]: Basque ball game played in a walled court with a basket-like racquet attached to the hand. Also the name of the ball. ^[e]
• Biathlon [r]: An athletic competition combining the sport activities of cross-country, or Nordic, skiing, and rifle shooting. ^[e]
• Billiards [r]: Game for two people using cues and played on a billiard table with three balls. The table, also used for snooker, has six pockets as targets for the balls. ^[e]
• Bobsleigh [r]: Sled racing down an ice-covered run using a sledge which is mechanically steered and braked. There are two-men and four-men versions of the sled. ^[e]
• Boomerang [r]: Traditionally a piece of wood that was carved and twisted so that when it was thrown correctly it would return to the thrower. ^[e]
• Boules [r]: French version of bowls but played with metal balls which are tossed towards the jack (target ball). ^[e]
• Bowls [r]: Ancient sport in which players roll weighted balls across a green and aim to place their bowl closest to a target ball. ^[e]
• Boxing [r]: A combat sport between two opponents in a roped, square ring who attempt to strike each other with fists enclosed in padded gloves. ^[e]
• Canadian football [r]: A variant of American football that is played on a field that is wider and longer and with 12 players on a side. ^[e]
• Canoeing [r]: Olympic sport which involves racing canoes and kayaks in various disciplines. ^[e]
• Chess [r]: 2-player board game for a checkered board; requires skill, strategy and intellect; the 1960s 3M Bookshelf game series included a version of Chess ^[e]
• Climbing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cricket [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Croquet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cross-country skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cue sports [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Curling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cycling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Darts [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dinghy racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Diving [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Downhill racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dressage [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Equestrianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fencing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Field hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Figure skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Football [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gaelic football [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Golf [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gymnastics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Handball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Horse racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hurling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ice dancing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ice hockey [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ice skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Judo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Karate [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lacrosse [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Luge [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Martial arts [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Modern pentathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Motor racing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Multi-sport events [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Netball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nordic combined skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nordic skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Olympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paralympic Games [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Polo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Pool [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Racquetball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rowing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rugby league [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Rugby union [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sailing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shinty [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Shooting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Show jumping [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Skateboarding [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Skeleton [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ski jumping [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Slalom skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sledging [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Snooker [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Softball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Speed skating [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Speedway [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sport
• Squash [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sumo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surfing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Swimming [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Table tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Taekwondo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tennis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tenpin bowling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thai boxing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Three-day eventing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Trampolining [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Triathlon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Tug of war [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Volleyball [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Water polo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Water skiing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Weightlifting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wrestling [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Yacht racing [r]: Add brief definition or description