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• Olympic Movement Sport and Discipline Codes

  • https://odf.olympictech.org/ioc/Olympic_Movement_Sport_Codes.pdf

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What Are the Different Types of Sports?

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• Individual Sports

• Partner Sports

• Team Sports

• Extreme Sports

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Team sports can then be broken down into four categories:

• Invasion Games

• Net Games

• Fielding & Striking Games

• Target Games

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What is an invasion game?

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A net game is when a net is involved in the sport and keeps players separated. For example, Badminton is a net game as there is a net in the middle of the court and two players remain opposite the net at all times.

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What is a Fielding and Striking game?

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Below, we have included lists of individual sports, partner sports, team sports and extreme sports across the world. If you feel any have been missed out please comment below:

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Individual Sports

• Alpine & Cross Country Skiing

• Archery

• Arm Wrestling

• Athletic Track and Field

• Badminton (Singles)

• Biathlon

• Bodyboarding

• Body Building

• Bowling

• Bowls

• Boxing

• Canoeing

• Chess

• Chess Boxing

• Croquet

• Cycling

• Darts

• Diving (Singles)

• Draughts

• Downhill Skiing

• Duathlon

• Fencing

• Golf

• Gymnastics

• Horse Riding

• Jet Skiing

• Judo

• Kayaking

• Mixed Martial Arts

• Motor sports (Auto & Bike)

• Orienteering

• Powerlifting

• Tennis

• Rodeo

• Rollerblading

• Rock Climbing

• Skateboarding

• Skating (figure)

• Sport Climbing

• Snooker

• Snowboarding

• Squash

• Surfing

• Swimming

• Table Tennis (singles)

• Trampolining

• Triathlon

• Weight Lifting

• Wrestling

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• Badminton

• Diving 

• Figure Skating

• Golf

• Table Tennis

• Tennis

• Trampolining

• Volleyball

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Team sports

List of Team Sports:

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• BASE Jumping

• Bobsleigh

• BMX

• Climbing

• Free Climbing

• Free running

• Freestyle skiing

• Gliding

• Ice Climbing

• Ice Cross

• Ice Diving

• Ironman events

• Kayaking

• Luge

• Mountain Boarding

• Mountain Climbing

• Paragliding

• Parkour

• Rock Climbing

• Scuba diving

• Ski Jumping

• Skeleton

• Trail running

• Skateboarding

• Skydiving

• Water Skiing

• Whitewater Rafting/kayaking

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List of Official Olympic Sports (Tokyo 2020)

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