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Kronum

Kronum is a modern hybrid ball sport on a circular field with four Kronum goals. Two teams of ten move the ball with hands, feet and body, attack multiple goals and score different point va…

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Kubb

Kubb is an outdoor target-throwing game with wooden batons, kubbs and a king. Teams must legally knock down opposing kubbs and field kubbs first; the king may be hit only at the end.

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Kudo

Kudo is modern full-contact budo combining striking, throwing and grappling phases with dogi, protective headgear, tatami/competition area and clear KIF competition rules.

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Kuk Sool Won

Kuk Sool Won is a Korean martial-art system with forms, basics, self-defence, joint locks, kicks, weapons and demonstration/tournament formats. Concrete competition forms depend on school,…

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Kung Fu

Kung fu is treated here as an umbrella term for Chinese martial-art contexts. Depending on the school, it may mean traditional forms, modern wushu/taolu, sanda, weapon forms or fitness/cult…

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Kurash

Kurash is a Central Asian standing throwing combat sport with jacket/grip work. Clean standing throws are the objective.

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Kyudo

Kyudo is modern Japanese archery in a budo context. Technique, posture, procedure, etiquette and hitting the mato belong together; it is not World Archery Olympic archery.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a modern stick-and-ball team sport with World Lacrosse rules for field, box and Sixes. Teams carry, pass and shoot the ball with the stick at goals; the umbrella context is acti…

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Ladder Toss

Ladder Toss / Ladder Golf is a recreational target-throwing game where players throw three bolas at a three-rung ladder. Only bolas still hanging at the end of the round count, usually with…

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Lagori

Lagori, also called seven stones or pittu, is a traditional Indian team game with a ball and a stack of seven stones or blocks. One team knocks the stack down and tries to rebuild it while…

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Land Sailing

Land sailing is sailing on land: a land-yacht/sand-yacht vehicle uses wind and sail on a hard open surface such as beach, salt flat or playa. `strandsegeln` is treated as a German alias rou…

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Land Speed Records

Land speed records are motorsport record attempts on land: vehicles run on an approved measured straight or course against time/speed, with class rules, safety inspection and official recog…

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Land Windsurfing

Land windsurfing, also called windskating, transfers windsurf sail handling to a board on wheels. It is ridden on smooth, open land surfaces; wind control, balance, braking, spacing and an…

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Langbold

Langbold is a Danish bat-and-ball game for two teams. One team bats and runs between a front line and back line while the fielding team retrieves the ball and, depending on the rule variant…

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Lapta

Lapta is a traditional Russian bat-and-run game with bat, ball, fielding team and running zones. Points come from legal hits, runs and returns; it is not cycling or wheeled sport.

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Laser Run

Laser Run is a UIPM format combining repeated running legs and laser-pistol shooting. Athletes must hit a set number of targets before continuing to run; pacing, calm aiming, transition rhy…

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Laser Tag

Laser tag is a non-contact infrared tagging game in arenas or controlled outdoor fields. Teams or individual players score hit, mission, base or elimination points depending on the system a…

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Latin DanceSport

Latin dances in WDSF DanceSport comprise Samba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Rumba, Paso Doble and Jive. Rhythm, technique, partnership, expression and presentation on the dance floor are judged.

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Lead Climbing

Lead climbing is the IFSC/sport-climbing discipline in which athletes climb a route on lead and clip protection while trying to get as high as possible. In competition, the achieved hold he…

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League of Legends Esports

League of Legends esports is organised competition in Riot Games' MOBA League of Legends. Two five-player teams play on Summoner's Rift with the objective of destroying the opposing Nexus.

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Legends Car Racing

Legends car racing is spec motorsport with small coupe race cars under INEX/U.S. Legend Cars rules. It is raced on asphalt ovals, dirt ovals and road courses; it is not cycling.

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Lelo Burti

Lelo Burti is a Georgian traditional contact ball game, especially known from Shukhuti on Orthodox Easter Sunday. Two village sides fight in a large scrum-like mass for a heavy leather ball…

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Lethwei

Lethwei is a full-contact combat sport from Myanmar using punches, elbows, knees, kicks, clinch work and headbutts. Traditional and modern rulesets differ; because of bare-knuckle and headb…

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Letterboxing

Letterboxing is an outdoor search activity: participants follow clues to hidden boxes, stamp the find in their own logbook and leave their signature stamp in the box logbook. The focus is o…

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Lightsaber Dueling

Lightsaber dueling is a regulated weapon-dueling sport with LED saber, protective mask, gloves and organisation-dependent hit rules. Bouts follow fencing/sabre-laser logic with protective g…

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Line Dancing

Line dancing is a partner-free dance form where people in rows or lines perform choreographed step sequences to music. Entry is social and low-barrier because everyone learns the same seque…

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Log Rolling

Log rolling is a balance water sport from logging traditions. Two competitors stand on a floating log and try, through fast footwork, stops and direction changes, to make the other fall int…

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Loheland Gymnastics

Loheland gymnastics is a historically developed movement and body-education method from the Loheland context. It focuses on conscious movement, posture, spatial awareness, perception and mo…

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Long Drive

Long drive is a golf distance contest: players hit drives into a marked grid, and the longest valid landing counts. It is not about completing a hole in the fewest strokes.

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Long Jump

Long jump is an athletics jumping event. Athletes run up, take off before the board and try to achieve the greatest valid distance into the sand pit.

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Long Track Motorcycle Speedway

Long track motorcycle speedway is FIM motorcycle track racing on longer oval tracks than classic speedway. Long straights, wider turns, specialist motorcycles, protection and track-racing r…

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Long Track Speed Skating

Long-track speed skating is speed skating on the large oval. Race pairs usually skate against the clock, change lanes legally and are scored by times, placings or team formats.

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Long-distance Running

Long-distance running is endurance running over longer distances on track, road or terrain. Pacing, aerobic endurance, race strategy and the fastest valid finish time decide; the exact dist…

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Longameta

Longameta is a Hungarian traditional bat-and-run ball game. Sources describe a small ball, a short bat, a rectangular field with baselines and scoring by running out and back while the othe…

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Longboarding

Longboarding is a roller/board sport on longer skateboards, depending on style as cruising, carving, dancing, freeride or downhill. It is not cycling and not automatically Olympic park/stre…

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Longue Paume

Longue paume is a traditional French racket sport in the jeu de paume context. Teams play a ball on a long outdoor field with zone and gain-ground logic; modern competition is documented ma…

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Luge

Luge is competitive sled racing on artificial or natural track: athletes lie supine and feet-first on a small sled, start with arm pulls and steer through body pressure. Lugeing is treated…

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Lumberjack Sport

Lumberjack sport covers competition disciplines with axe, handsaw or chainsaw such as underhand chop, standing block chop, single buck or stock saw. Scoring uses valid times, placings and s…

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Luta Livre

Luta Livre is a Brazilian no-gi grappling and submission combat sport. In sport context, takedowns, positional control, submissions, points, penalties and controlled partner training are ce…

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Maculelê

Maculelê is an Afro-Brazilian stick dance and performance context often preserved in capoeira schools. The focus is rhythm, stick movement, group energy, cultural framing and safe spacing.

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Mahjong

Mahjong is a strategic tile game with several regional rulesets. In the Sporthelix context it is modelled as a mind sport: players build valid hands, score under the chosen ruleset and cons…

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Majorette Sport

Majorette sport combines dance, marching and formation elements, baton or pom technique and presentation. Categories such as baton, pom, mix, classic or twirling differ by federation and di…

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Mallakhamb

Mallakhamb is a traditional Indian apparatus and gymnastics sport with routines on wooden pole, hanging pole or rope. Difficulty, execution, posture, transitions and errors are assessed; go…

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Marathon

The marathon is a road-running event over 42.195 km. A measured or announced course, legal running, aid stations and the fastest valid finish time matter.

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Marbles

Marbles covers ring-based marble games such as ringer or ring taw. Players flick or shoot a larger shooter at target marbles in a marked ring; goals, points and keeps rules depend on the ag…

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Marching Band

Marching band is an ensemble competition combining music, marching/movement forms, visual design and show effect. Circuit rules assess music, visual performance, execution and overall effec…

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Martial Arts

Martial arts is not a single sport code but an umbrella term for martial arts, self-defence systems and combat sports. Rules, scoring, contact level, equipment and entry always depend on th…

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Mas Wrestling

Mas wrestling is a traditional strength and leverage sport from Yakutia/Sakha. Two athletes sit opposite each other, brace their feet against a board and pull on one shared stick; the goal…

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Matkot

Matkot is an Israeli beach paddle game in which two or more people keep a small rubber ball airborne for as long and as controlled as possible. In typical recreational play there is no net,…

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mêlée

Melee in the historical tournament context means the early mass or group form of medieval tournaments, often described as a mock battle between two mounted groups. Sources place melee withi…

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Memory Sport

Memory sport is a mind sport in which competitors memorise numbers, cards, words, names/faces or other tasks under time limits and recall them accurately. Scoring is based on amount, accura…

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Mental Calculation

Mental calculation competition uses timed tasks such as addition, multiplication, roots, calendar calculation or surprise categories. It is a solo mind sport: calculators are not the core;…

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Merkball

Merkball is a German-language school and group game from the dodge-game family. Players throw a soft ball at each other; a hit player leaves the field and remembers who hit them. When that…

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Mermaiding

Mermaiding is monofin/mermaid swimming with breath control, dolphin kick, underwater poses, tail safety and buddy or instructor rules in a pool or suitable water site.

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Mesoamerican Ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame is a historical ballgame tradition shared by many Central American cultures. Ballcourts, heavy rubber balls, protective padding and variants using body parts such…

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Metallic Silhouette Shooting

Metallic silhouette shooting is a shooting sport where metal animal silhouettes at known distances are knocked down with legal equipment. Firearms, distances and classes follow IMSSU, NRA o…

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Metro Footy

Metro footy is a smaller, locally organised variant of Australian rules football, especially in the USAFL context. It uses goals/behinds and AFL-like skills, but not automatically the full…

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Middle-Distance Running

Middle-distance running covers track distances such as 800 m and 1500 m. The fastest valid finish time, pace changes, positioning and tactical finish decide; `middle-distance` is an alias h…

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Midget Car Racing

Midget car racing is short-track car racing with small, light and very powerful race cars on dirt or paved ovals. Starts, heat races, line choice, traffic, setup, safety gear and scrutineer…

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Military Pentathlon

Military pentathlon is a CISM military multisport. Its disciplines are shooting, obstacle run, obstacle swimming, throwing and cross-country running; the result comes from aggregate perform…

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