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This list is not exhaustive but limited to high priority articles which 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
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- 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