List Of Sports Names From A–Z & Terms

List of Sports Names from A–Z in Alphabetical Order

In this article, you’ll find the complete alphabetical list of sports names from A-Z. We have also ranked the most popular sports in the world by the fan base.

Since the first civilization, sports have been an integral part of human history. At that time, it was mainly a contest on survival skills like running, throwing spears and javelins, archery, and hunting. All of these contests were used in preparing for war.

But, our modern-day sport has evolved into not just a means for people to defend themselves in the likes of Karate and judo. But also, a global means for persons to be entertained, relax and earn a living.

Just imagine a world without those weekends lit by love and the bond of the family when friends go to a match together to cheer their favorite team to victory. Well, the lockdown gave us a glimpse of how bleak life can be without sports.

That is just one of the numerous reasons why humanity is synonymous with sports. Continue reading this article to discover more about this global phenomenon termed ‘sport.’

What is Sports?

Sport is all activities that use physical efforts or skills in a competitive form. These activities are also governed and regulated by a set of rules that are generally accepted.

Sports aim to preserve or better enhance the psychological, health, and physical fitness of the participants while also creating an avenue for the amusement, pleasure, and enjoyment of the viewers.

Benefits of Sports

Numerous benefits abound when we participate actively in sports. We shall be looking at these benefits under the following undermentioned subheadings.

1. Health Benefits

Sporting is a means of improving muscular activities. And since the body is made up of a lot of muscles, any activities that exercise and increase the functionality of powers is a huge plus for a healthy life.

During sport, the heart beats faster in an attempt to get more blood around the body. This is indirectly a means to exercise the heart, reducing the likelihood of an athlete coming down with a host of heart diseases like arteriosclerosis, stroke, high or low BP.

Sports help to control weight. As you burn excess stored fats, you not only gain a healthy body but a great look. The more a person participates in sports, the more that person uses his joints and skeletal frame, reducing the possibility of developing weak and brittle bones.

Besides all these, sporting increases your immunity to infections while helping you sleep better. And when you are well-rested, fresh mental ideas can flow freely in all your endeavors.

2. Social Benefits

For persons who participate in sports, there is usually this realization they become aware of. They soon become conscious of the fact that sports activities bring families, neighborhoods, communities, and nations together.

The differences in outlook about life’s issues, varying cultures, and even race doesn’t matter when a team has been established. All that is a priority and all that binds the team together at that moment is how they can become victorious.

Apart from the unity and teamwork mindset that sports places in its participants, it also teaches responsibility, discipline, and communication skills.

Take football as a typical example, where you have the midfielders, strikers, defenders e.t.c. It must take a lot of communication for each sect of the players, despite their different areas of specialty, to pull their talents together and win the trophy.

Even think of the number of training and workouts the athlete must endure before they eventually meet their opponents on the field. The years of discipline and hard work they put into their trainings. All of these benefits are what sports affords not just the athlete but the entire society.

3. Psychological Benefits

Sports activities teach perseverance. Every single athlete has to try, fail and try again repeatedly until they become good enough. By so doing, the athlete trains his or her mind on the necessity of enduring until a worthy cause is attained.

Athletes also learn to depend on their own abilities in the process of sporting. No matter the number of audience watching them sports men are still able to perform. This is the benefit of the self confidence they have built through years of routine practice.

Sports also help the body relax and ‘disconnect’ from stress in the mind. The body does this by causing a reduction in the amount of stress hormone produced.

Now that we’ve seen some of the numerous benefits of sports, it’s time you take a look at our complete list of sports alphabetically below.

Complete List of Sports Names from A–Z

A

  • Archery
  • Auto racing
  • Australian football
  • Adventure racing
  • Aerobatics
  • Astronautics
  • Athletics
  • Aerobics
  • Aeromodelling
  • Association football
  • Aggressive inline skating
  • Artistic skating
  • Aikido
  • Air boating

B

  • Buzkashi
  • Backgammon
  • Bungee jumping
  • Bicycling
  • Backpacking
  • Bullfighting
  • Badminton
  • Blind sport
  • Ballooning
  • Broomball
  • Baseball
  • Brandy
  • Boules
  • Bird building
  • Boating
  • Baton twirling
  • Bicycle polo
  • Boomerang
  • Basketball
  • Battledore
  • Bodysurfing
  • Beach handball
  • Bodybuilding
  • Beach volleyball
  • Bowling
  • Boxing
  • Billards or pool in the US

C

  • Car racing
  • Caber toss
  • Canoeing
  • Curling
  • Checkers
  • Carmel riding
  • Caving
  • Croquet
  • Camogie
  • Cave diving
  • College sports
  • Carmel racing
  • Chess
  • Canoe polo
  • Camogie
  • Card games
  • Climbing
  • Cricket
  • Cock tossing
  • Curling
  • Cycling

D

  • Dragon boat
  • Downhill zorbing
  • Double dutch jump rope
  • Dart
  • Duathlon
  • Dog sledding
  • Diving
  • Discuss throDart
  • Disc golf
  • Dart
  • Double dutch
  • Dominoes
  • Dodge ball

E

  • Elephant Polo
  • Equestrian

F

  • Feather bowling
  • Falconry
  • Flying disc
  • Frisbee
  • Fox hunting
  • Floorball hockey
  • Fencing
  • Flatland driving
  • Figure skating
  • Fishing
  • Formula 1
  • Floorball
  • Football (U.S), Soccer (U.K)
  • Five pin bowling
  • Five pin zorbing
  • Fox driving
  • Frog racing

G

  • Gliding
  • Giridion
  • Golf
  • Go-karting
  • Gymnastic

H

  • Hang gliding
  • High jump
  • Hockey
  • Horse racing
  • Horseback riding
  • Harpastum
  • Hiking
  • Horse polo
  • Horse boating
  • Hurdle jumping
  • Hammer throw
  • High five netball
  • Hockey blocky
  • Hovercraft and hurdles
  • Hardball
  • Hopscotch
  • Horses shoe
  • Hunting
  • Handball

I

  • Indoor rowing
  • Ice fishing
  • Inline figure skating
  • Ice skating
  • Inline speed skating
  • Iceboating
  • Indoor sky diving
  • Ice hockey
  • Inline hockey
  • Ice speed skating
  • Inneybandy
  • Indoor racing

J

  • Judo
  • Javelins toss
  • Jump rope
  • Jogging
  • Jacks
  • Jet skilling
  • Jai Alai

K

  • Kite flying
  • Karate
  • Kickball
  • Korfball
  • Kayaking
  • Kite surfing
  • Kabaddi
  • Kickboxing
  • Kubb
  • Kendo
  • Knife throwing

L

  • Lawn tennis
  • Lawn bowling
  • Luge
  • Lawnmower racing
  • Land sailing
  • Lacrosse
  • Lumberjack games

M

  • Mixed martial arts
  • Mountain biking
  • Marine navigation
  • Miniature golf
  • Motor cross
  • Motorcycle racing
  • Marathon
  • Motorbiking
  • Martial arts
  • Marbles

N

  • Netball

O

  • Orienteering
  • Off-road skating
  • Outdoor rowing
  • Outrigger canoeing

P

  • Parachuting
  • Penthalon
  • Polar exploration
  • Powerlifting
  • Paddleboarding
  • Parasailing
  • Platform tennis
  • Pro wrestling
  • Paintball
  • Petanque
  • Pigeon racing
  • Polo sport
  • Push scooters
  • Pelota Vasca
  • Pilates

Q

  • Quad speed skating
  • Quoits
  • Quad roller skating

R

  • Rogaining
  • Roller figure skating
  • Rollerjoring
  • Rounders
  • Rugby union
  • Rodeo
  • Roller dancing
  • Roller balding
  • Rope climbing
  • Rugby league
  • Racquetball
  • River rafting
  • Roller basketball
  • Roller skating
  • Roller soccer
  • Running
  • Rink hockey
  • Rolla Bolla
  • Roller hockey
  • Roller skiing
  • Rowing

S

  • Sailing
  • Scouting
  • Self-defense
  • Shooting
  • Skateboarding
  • Skiing
  • Sledding
  • Snowkiting
  • Snow tubing
  • Soft tennis
  • Stone put
  • Surf life-saving
  • Scuba diving
  • Shot put
  • Skating
  • Skijoring
  • Sled/Sledge hockey
  • Snow luge
  • Snowboarding
  • Softball
  • Street hockey
  • Sumo wrestling
  • Synchronized skating
  • Shinty
  • Skate sailing
  • Skiboarding
  • Slalom skating
  • Snow biking
  • Soccer
  • Speed skating
  • Steeplechase
  • Sailing sports
  • Sepak takraw
  • Shuffleboard
  • Skeet shooting
  • Swim boarding
  • Snow polo
  • Snowmobiling
  • Snooker
  • Surfing
  • Spearfishing
  • Street luge
  • Swimming
  • Squash
  • Synchronized swimming
  • Snow tubing
  • Snow tennis

T

  • Table tennis
  • Target shooting
  • Ten-pin bowling
  • Top spinning
  • Trail skating
  • Tubing
  • Team handball
  • Track hurdle jumps
  • Triathlon
  • Table soccer
  • Torball
  • Taekwondo
  • Trampoline
  • Tennis
  • Tug of war
  • Tai chi
  • Tobogganing
  • Tractor pull
  • Trigon
  • Tchoukball
  • Tetherball
  • Tree climbing
  • Turtle racing

U

  • Underwater hockey
  • Unicycling
  • Ultra marathons
  • Underwater rugby
  • Ultimate Frisbee

V

  • Volleyball
  • Verpa
  • Vertical roller skating

W

  • Wakeboarding
  • Walking
  • Wheelchair racing
  • Water aerobics
  • Wheelchair basketball
  • Water ballet
  • Weight lifting
  • Water Yoga
  • Winter sports
  • Weightlifting
  • Wrestling

Y

  •  Yoga

Z

  • Zorbing
  • Ziplining

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List of Sports Terms

Just as each profession has its own ‘language ‘ and particular vocabularies, so also in sports, some words or terms are used very frequently to communicate among athletes.

Terminologies in Archery

  • Boss
  • Draw
  • Fistmele
  • Upshot
  • Gungdo
  • Nock
  • Quarrel
  • Bowman
  • Bullseye
  • Bolt

Terminologies in Athletics

  • Middle Distance
  • Photo Finish
  • Relay
  • Track
  • Bell Lap
  • Cross Country
  • Decathlon
  • False Start
  • Field
  • Foul
  • Heptathlon
  • High Jump
  • Hurdles
  • Javelin
  • Lane
  • Lap
  • Long Jump
  • Marathon
  • Pole Vault
  • Record
  • Relay
  • Shot put
  • Triple Jump
  • Shot Put
  • Discuss Throw
  • Hammer Throw
  • Triple Jump
  • Sprint
  • Starting Blocks
  • Steeplechase
  • Track And Field.

Terminologies In Basketball

  • Common foul
  • Court
  • Dunk
  • Held-Ball
  • Layup
  • Pivot
  • Rebound
  • Steal
  • Under-Head
  • Technical foul
  • Overhead
  • Free-Throw
  • Front

Terminologies In Badminton

  • Flick
  • Game
  • Layup
  • Let
  • Love
  • Court
  • Deuce
  • Shuttlecock
  • Service court
  • Double fault
  • Net Double Drop
  • Dunk
  • Service
  • Smash
  • Fore-hand
  • Back Hand
  • Hit
  • Drop

Terminologies in Baseball 

  • Perfect game
  • Throw
  • Strike
  • Put out
  • Ant-Rubber Bunting
  • Put Strike
  • Pinching Diamond
  • Home
  • Out
  • Pitcher
  • Home run
  • Base runner

Terminologies in Boxing 

  • Ring Generalship
  • Roughhousing
  • Southpaw
  • Spar
  • Brawler
  • Break
  • Buckle
  • Counterpunch
  • Cross
  • Cutman
  • Stablemate
  • Knock out
  • Ring Stoppage
  • Punch
  • Round
  • Accidental Butt
  • Bleeder
  • Bolo Punch
  • Bout
  • Dive
  • Eight Count
  • Glass Jaw
  • Haymaker
  • Liver Shot
  • Low Blow
  • Mauler
  • Neutral Corner
  • Plodder
  • Technical Knockout
  • Walkout Bout
  • Whiskers
  • Canvas
  • Card

Terminologies in Soccer (Association Football)

  • Free-Kick
  • Goal
  • Hattrick
  • Head
  • Left-Out
  • Move
  • Right-Out
  • Side-Back
  • Stopper
  • Off-Side
  • Pass
  • Penalty
  • Penalty-Kick
  • Dribble
  • Foul
  • Free-Kick
  • Hand-Ball
  • Rebound
  • Baseline
  • Bick
  • Comer
  • Defender
  • Goal Keeper

Terminologies in Golf

  • approach putt
  • apron
  • ball mark
  • double eagle
  • all square
  • ballooning
  • beach
  • bunker
  • caddy
  • chip
  • Claw grip
  • condor
  • dogleg
  • dub
  • flag
  • Four-Ball
  • sand trap
  • Mulligan
  • off the deck
  • peg
  • tee shoe
  • ace
  • albatross.

Terminologies in Hockey 

  • Short corner
  • Hattrick
  • Goal
  • Penalty Corner
  • Penalty stroke
  • Pushin
  • Cut
  • Scoop
  • Dribble
  • Astroturf
  • Sudden death
  • Left in
  • Off-side
  • Tiebreaker
  • Carried
  • Stick
  • Striking circle
  • Undercutting
  • Bully
  • Carried
  • Carry
  • Centre-Forward
  • Corner
  • Cut
  • Dribble
  • Half-Back
  • Hat-Trick
  • Left-Out
  • Off-Side

Terminologies in Tennis

  • Net
  • Netplay
  • Service
  • Shot
  • Smash
  • Volley
  • Ace
  • Advantage
  • Back-Hand-Drive
  • Baseline
  • Double-Fault
  • Drop-Shot
  • Forehand
  • Grandslam
  • Grass-Court
  • Break-Point
  • Deuce

Terminologies in Swimming 

  • Breaststroke
  • Freestyle
  • Pool
  • Crawl
  • Backstroke
  • Butterfly stroke
  • Lane.

Terminologies in Wrestling 

  • Freestyle
  • Point
  • Heave
  • Cross Face
  • Booster
  • Libero
  • ElbowDrop
  • Leg sweep
  • chicken wing
  • Hal Nelson

When to Correctly Use “Play”, “Go” or “Do” in Sport

When referring to sporting activities  many persons make the mistake of misusing  these three verbs: play, go and do. In this segment of the article we shall consider the most appropriate use of these verbs. This is so that in the future you can through this knowledge, express yourself more correctly.

Play

Play is used when the speaker refers to a sport where there are two or more rivaling teams, contending for a particular reward. It would be proper then to say,

  • Do you play football?
  • How often do you play basketball?

Do

Do, is used for a personal leisure activity, not necessarily for a team or collective sport. Therefore, a sentence with this verb could sound like,

  • Does he really do karate?
  • I guess you do swim

Go

We pair go with a sports activity ending with ing. Some examples of such scenarios are:

  • I am going fishing
  • She is going cycling
  • They are going fencing

Conclusion

There it is, the complete list of sports as well as some of their terminologies. As unlikely as it may seem, if you think we left out any of your favorite sports names, then don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

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