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Mind Sports

Mind sports is an umbrella for rule-governed intellectual sports such as chess, bridge, go, draughts, xiangqi, mahjong, poker or card-game contexts. Detailed rules sit with each federation;…

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Mini Rugby

Mini rugby is an age-appropriate entry format with reduced field, team, contact and rule requirements by union. Team size, field and contact level are adapted by age grade.

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Minigolf

Minigolf is a precision sport on short lanes with putter, ball and obstacle or lane logic. The aim is to finish each lane in as few strokes as possible.

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Mixed Climbing

Mixed climbing uses ice tools and crampons on combined ice, rock or artificial wall sections. Safe tool placements, climbing technique, belaying and, in competition, height or time decide.

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Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a regulated full-contact combat sport combining striking, kicking, clinch, takedown, grappling and submission techniques in one ruleset. UFC is only a promotion;…

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Mixed-Reality Esport

Mixed-reality esport is an umbrella for competitions that combine digital game objectives with VR/AR hardware, sensors and physical movement in an arena. Rules, scoring and equipment depend…

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Mobility Training

Mobility training is a training method for actively controlled range of motion. It focuses on joint movement, coordination, stability, end-range strength and short repeatable routines; it i…

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Model Aircraft

Model aircraft sport covers free-flight, radio-controlled or control-line model aircraft. Depending on class it involves precision, aerobatics, pylon/racing, thermal flight, scale judging o…

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Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon is an Olympic multisport in the UIPM context. The modern senior format combines fencing, swimming, obstacle and Laser Run; overall performance across very different techni…

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Modern Sword Art

Modern sword art is a German recreational weapon-art context combining European sword training with modern martial-art and training methods. This entry is not a duplicate of Olympic fencing…

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Mogul Skiing

Mogul skiing is freestyle skiing on a mogul course with two jumps. Controlled turns, air and speed are scored; dual moguls uses direct head-to-head runs.

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Molkky

Molkky is a Finnish target-throwing game with a throwing pin and twelve numbered wooden pins. The aim is exactly 50 points; one fallen pin scores its number, multiple pins score the count f…

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Mondioring

Mondioring is an international working-dog sport with obedience, jumps and protection work in changing scenarios. Dog-handler teamwork, control, courage, precision and rule compliance are j…

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Mongolian Wrestling

Mongolian wrestling, also Boekh/Bokh, is traditional Mongolian stand-up wrestling in the Naadam context. The goal is to use throws, leverage, balance and gripping to make the opponent touch…

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Monoski

Monoski here describes stand-up monoskiing: both ski boots sit side by side on one wide ski. It is a snow and community niche; adaptive seated mono-skis are related but different equipment…

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Monster Truck Racing

Monster truck racing describes event competitions with purpose-built monster trucks on dirt courses, with racing, skills, donut and freestyle formats depending on the event. Official Monste…

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Moscow Broomball

Moscow broomball is a local broomball variant from Moscow: teams play on frozen courts with shoes, stick/broom, small ball, goals and protection. Rules, season and league context come from…

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Motoball

Motoball is a motorsport team ball game: field players ride motorcycles, play a large ball and try to score more goals than the other side.

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Motocross

Motocross is off-road motorcycle racing on closed dirt courses with corners, ruts, jumps, starts and motos. Bike control, body position, fitness, protection and track rules are central.

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Motor-Paced Race

Motor-paced racing is track cycling behind a motorised pacer. Rider and pacer work as a pair; slipstream, distance, signals, velodrome line and safety define the format.

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Motorcycle Gymkhana

Motorcycle gymkhana is a motorcycle skill and timed format on a tight paved cone course. Low speed, tight turns, vision, clutch/throttle feel, course memory and time penalties define the di…

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Motorcycle Racing

Motorcycle racing is the umbrella term for organised motorcycle racing and motorcycle-sport disciplines such as road racing, motocross, speedway, trials, enduro, rally and sidecar. Concrete…

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Motorcycle Sidecar Racing

Motorcycle sidecar racing is motorcycle circuit racing with rider and passenger on a racing outfit. The passenger actively shifts body weight; cornering, line choice, team communication, sc…

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Motorcycle Speedway

Motorcycle speedway is motorcycle track racing on short dirt ovals. Specialist brakeless motorcycles usually run four-rider heats over a few laps; starts, slide control, line, points and FI…

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Motorcycle Sport

Motorcycle sport is the umbrella for motorcycle competitions such as road racing, motocross, enduro, trial, speedway or motoball. Depending on discipline, time, placing, points or faults de…

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Motorcycle Trials

Motorcycle trials is observed motorcycle sport in marked sections with natural or artificial obstacles. Not top speed but balance, clutch feel, line choice and few penalty points for footin…

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Motorcycling Road Racing

Motorcycle road racing is motorcycle racing on closed paved circuits or road courses. Braking markers, line choice, lean angle, passing, flags, scrutineering and series rules define the com…

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Motorsports

Motorsports is an umbrella term for competition with motorised vehicles. Rules, vehicles, venues, cost, scoring and entry differ by discipline such as karting, car racing, motorcycle sport,…

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Mountain Bike Orienteering

Mountain bike orienteering combines MTB riding with map reading and control points. Riders choose routes through a track network; time and correctly visited controls decide.

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Mountain Biking

Mountain biking is off-road cycling on trails, courses or bike-park tracks. Depending on format, time, placing, laps, line choice and technical bike handling decide.

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Mountain Rescue Competition

Mountain rescue competition is a technical team competition for alpine rescue tasks. Teams complete stations such as navigation, ski or terrain travel, avalanche search, rope/stretcher resc…

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Mountain Running

Mountain running is a running competition on natural, usually mountainous terrain with significant elevation. Depending on format, courses go uphill, downhill or classic up and down over ch…

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Mountain Unicycling

Mountain unicycling, often Muni, is off-road unicycling on trails, descents and technical sections. Balance, line choice, controlled dismounts and obstacle technique are central, not normal…

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Mountainboarding

Mountainboarding is off-road board sport with large pneumatic tyres, bindings/straps and protection on grass, dirt, trails, parks, boardercross tracks or downhill terrain. All-terrain board…

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is alpine mountain sport with route, weather window, equipment, navigation and risk management. Depending on the trip, summit, ridge, face, snow/rock terrain or safe return m…

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Mounted Games

Mounted games is a fast equestrian sport built around short relay and skill races. Teams ride ponies or horses through marked lanes, collect objects, hand them over and complete game tasks…

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Mounted Orienteering

Mounted orienteering is source-limited as a mounted navigation form and overlaps strongly with TREC. Riding by map, controls, pace control and horse welfare are central; the entry remains `…

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Muay Boran

Muay Boran is an umbrella term for traditional Thai Muay systems before and alongside modern Muay Thai ring sport. Training centres on fundamentals, punches, kicks, knees, elbows, clinch wo…

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Muay Thai

Muay Thai is a Thai full-contact ring sport using punches, kicks, knees, elbows and clinch. Legal strikes, effect, technique, ring control, safety concept and rules class are decisive.

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Mud Bogging

Mud bogging is a regionally organised off-road motorsport in which vehicles drive through a mud pit or mud-drag course as far or as fast as possible. The source base is regionally fragmente…

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Mühle

Nine Men's Morris is an abstract board game for two players on a 24-point board. The goal is to form mills of three pieces through placement and movement, capture opposing pieces and reduce…

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Muzzleloading Shooting

Muzzleloading shooting is shooting sport with historic or replica muzzle-loading firearms. Safe loading technique, approved range, class rules and precision scoring are central; local law a…

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Naginata

Naginata is the modern Japanese weapon sport Atarashii Naginata. In shiai, athletes score controlled strikes with a bamboo/wooden naginata to defined target zones; in engi, set partner form…

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Naginatajutsu

Naginatajutsu is a traditional Japanese weapon-art context for the naginata. This entry is treated as koryu/school and training context; modern shiai/engi competition with bogu belongs to t…

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Natural Track Luge

Natural track luge is competitive luge on iced natural or alpine luge tracks without artificially banked ice-channel turns. Athletes steer and brake with body, hands and feet; line choice,…

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Naval Pentathlon

Naval pentathlon is a CISM naval multisport. Its five disciplines combine obstacle run, life-saving swimming, utility swimming, seamanship and cross-country; the result comes from aggregate…

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Netball

Netball is a position-restricted team game without dribbling. Teams pass the ball through court thirds into the goal circle; Goal Shooter and Goal Attack shoot at the ring.

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Newcomb Ball

Newcomb ball is a historical school and catch-net game in which teams throw the ball over a line or net and place it so the other side cannot catch it. Today it mainly appears in school, re…

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Nine-a-side Footy

Nine-a-side footy is a reduced Australian-football/AFL-9s-adjacent variant with nine players or local small-sided logic. Kicks, marks, handpasses and goals on a smaller field are central.

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Nine-Ball

Nine-ball is a pool-billiards discipline using balls 1 through 9. The lowest-numbered ball must be contacted first; a rack is won by legally pocketing the 9 under WPA/event rules.

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Nine-Man Football

Nine-man football is a reduced gridiron/American-football variant, especially in school and regional play. Teams play with nine rather than eleven players; downs, touchdowns, kicks and safe…

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Ninepins

Ninepins is ninepin bowling, a precision sport with nine pins on a lane. The aim is to knock down as many pins as possible under discipline and lane rules.

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Ninja Warrior

Ninja Warrior is an obstacle sport on modular courses with hanging, balance, swing and jump tasks. Athletes usually start individually, score obstacle/time points or try to complete the cou…

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Ninjutsu

Ninjutsu is treated here as a Japanese martial-art and dojo-training context. Taijutsu, distance, balance, ukemi/breakfalls, locks, throws, strikes/kicks and weapon work are central; tourna…

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Nippers

Nippers is a junior and youth programme in surf lifesaving. Children and teens learn beach and water safety, wading, swimming, board paddling, beach events and rescue basics under club supe…

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Nordic Combined

Nordic combined links ski jumping and cross-country skiing. Jump points are converted into start gaps for the cross-country pursuit; the athlete leading legally after jump and ski race wins.

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Nordic Skiing

Nordic skiing is the umbrella context for Nordic ski forms such as cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined. For beginners, groomed cross-country skiing is usually the realisti…

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Nordic Walking

Nordic walking is walking with active pole technique. The poles drive behind the body while arms, core and posture contribute; everyday training, courses and competition formats follow loca…

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Nordische Kombination

Nordic combined joins ski jumping and cross-country skiing. Jump scores are converted into start gaps for the cross-country chase race under the Gundersen format, so flight technique, style…

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Northern Praying Mantis

Northern Praying Mantis is a northern Chinese kung fu style with forms, footwork, mantis-hand methods, trapping/partner drills and sometimes weapon forms. The entry is treated as style and…

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