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  2. List of sports - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of sports/games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]

  3. List of forms of racing - Wikipedia

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    Orienteering sports combine navigation with a specific method of travel. Foot orienteering, navigation using a map and compass while running across unfamiliar terrain along a course with control points. Mountain bike orienteering; Ski orienteering; Trail orienteering; Radio orienteering, combines radio direction finding with orienteering skills.

  4. Sprint (running) - Wikipedia

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    It is used in many sports that incorporate running, typically as a way of quickly reaching a target or goal, or avoiding or catching an opponent. Human physiology dictates that a runner's near-top speed cannot be maintained for more than 30–35 seconds due to the depletion of phosphocreatine stores in muscles, and perhaps secondarily to ...

  5. Extreme sport - Wikipedia

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    Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death. [1] [2] [3] These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly specialized gear. [1] Extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport.

  6. Racewalking - Wikipedia

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    The sport emerged from a British culture of long-distance competitive walking known as pedestrianism, which began to develop the ruleset that is the basis of the modern discipline around the mid-19th century. Since the mid-20th century onwards, Russian and Chinese athletes have been among the most successful on the global stage, with Europe and ...

  7. Sport of athletics - Wikipedia

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    The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country.

  8. Long-track speed skating - Wikipedia

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    Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, short-track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating.

  9. List of racket sports - Wikipedia

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    Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. [1] Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open hoop that supports a network of tightly stretched strings.