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Pentathlon

Pentathlon means a five-discipline multisport. The most important documented current context is modern pentathlon; historical, military and other variants also exist. This card therefore re…

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Personal Watercraft Racing

Personal watercraft racing is motorised water racing with jet skis/PWC in closed-course, offshore, freestyle or class formats. IJSBA sources document a competition rulebook structure for sa…

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Pesapallo

Pesapallo is a Finnish bat-and-ball sport with a vertical pitch, asymmetric base path and tactical runner advancement. Teams bat, run bases and field defensively; it is a distinct Finnish c…

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Petanque

Petanque is a boules discipline in which metal boules are thrown from a circle to finish near the jack or shoot opponent boules away. It is played without a run-up, usually as singles, doub…

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Peteca

played by hitting the shuttlecock with your hand over a high net. At its core, the sport is about strike the peteca with one hand over the net into the opponent's court. Participation forma…

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Picigin

Picigin is a Croatian shallow-water/beach ball game in which a group keeps the ball in the air as spectacularly as possible. Picigin.org documents suggested competition rules, court size, p…

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Pickleball

Pickleball is a racket or striking sport in which a ball or object is played with a hand, racket, or wall across or against a court. At its core, the sport is about win rallies by playing t…

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Pigeon racing

Pigeon racing uses registered homing pigeons released from a start location and scored after returning to their home loft by flight time, distance and velocity. Loft management, training, w…

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Pilates

Pilates is a structured body-training method focused on core stability, breathing, posture, mobility and controlled movement. It is practised on the mat or on apparatus such as reformer, ca…

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Pinball

Competitive pinball is organised through machine scores, group/match-play formats and IFPA/PAPA rulesets.

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Pit-Pat

Pit-Pat combines mini-golf and billiards elements: balls are played with cues on obstacle tables into target areas.

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Pitch and Putt

like golf, but on shorter holes and only a putter and a wedge are allowed. At its core, the sport is about hole the ball in as few strokes as possible. Participation format: Individuals, te…

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Pitton

Pitton is a source-thin indoor paddle/shuttlecock sport from a school PE context, combining elements of pickleball, tennis and badminton. Reliable sources include an Everett school rule she…

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Platform Tennis

a variation of tennis with modified equipment on a much smaller court surrounded on all sides by a fence. At its core, the sport is about hit the ball over the net into the opponent's court…

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Platzgen

Platzgen is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about throw the disc as close as possible to the central peg…

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Playboating (Freestyle Canoeing)

Playboating is canoe freestyle on a standing wave, hole, stopper or similar whitewater feature. Instead of sprint or slalom time, short rides, controlled moves, difficulty, variety, style a…

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Pleasure Driving

Pleasure driving is a carriage-driving and show class with a horse or pony hitched to a vehicle. Evaluation includes overall impression, manners, way of going/performance, turnout, clean re…

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Plinking

Plinking is informal target shooting at permitted recreational targets in a controlled, legal range or safe-range setting. Safety briefing, backstop or bullet trap, allowed target types, ey…

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Pljočkanje

Pljockanje is an Istrian traditional stone target game in which flat stones are thrown as close as possible to a target object. Croatian federation and heritage sources document rules and h…

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Pocket Billiards

Pocket Billiards is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about legally pot balls with the cue and complete the…

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point-to-point

point-to-point is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the sport is about complete the race distance faster than the competition. Participa…

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Poker

a card game that combines gambling, strategy, and skill. The winner of each hand is determined according to the combinations of players' cards. At its core, the objective is rule-governed c…

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Pole Bending

Pole bending is a western riding speed event in which horse and rider complete a prescribed slalom pattern through six poles as fast and cleanly as possible. Time is central; knocked poles…

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Pole Climbing

involves climbing very high wooden poles. At its core, the objective is the highest reached zone/height, fastest time, or best combined score depending on discipline. Participation format:…

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Pole Dance

Pole Dance is a dance sport in which technique, rhythm, expression, and presentation are judged. At its core, the sport is about perform routines judged by difficulty, execution, and discip…

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Pole Dancing

participants perform various types of acrobatic moves like spins, climbs, twists and body inversions around a pole. At its core, the sport is about perform routines judged by difficulty, ex…

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Pole Fitness

Pole Fitness is a gymnastics or acrobatic sport in which body control, difficulty, and execution are judged. At its core, the sport is about perform routines judged by difficulty, execution…

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Pole Sport

Pole sport is an acrobatic-athletic competition sport on a vertical pole. IPSF rules document Code of Points judging, national/open qualification and health/safety requirements.

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Pole Vault

Pole vault is an athletics jumping event in which athletes run up with a pole, plant it in the box and clear a bar. The highest valid height decides the result.

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Polo

Polo is a fast mounted team sport. Riders hit a ball with mallets into the opposing goal; chukkas, field positions, line-of-the-ball/right-of-way rules, pony changes and team tactics shape…

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Polocrosse

Polocrosse combines polo pace with a netted racquet: riders catch, carry and throw the ball with the racquet, play in sections and score goals on a marked field with zones.

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Pommel Horse

Pommel horse is a men's artistic gymnastics apparatus. Gymnasts perform circles, scissors, travels, turns and dismount on the apparatus; scoring evaluates difficulty, execution, rhythm, bod…

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Pond Hockey

a version of ice hockey played on a natural frozen body of water. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposition by shooting the puck into the net. Participation forma…

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Pontoniersport

Pontooning is a Swiss watermanship and skill discipline using pontoon boats or Weidling boats. Crew pairs and sections handle boats through river courses and train poling, rowing, knotting…

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Pool

Pool is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about legally pot balls with the cue and complete the game's requ…

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Poolbillard

Poolbillard is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about legally pot balls with the cue and complete the game…

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Popinjay

Popinjay is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about shoot arrows as accurately as possible at a target. Par…

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Power Hockey

like ice hockey but played in an electric wheelchair on a basketball court. At its core, the sport is about play the ball into the opposing goal using the stick. Participation format: 11-a-…

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Power Yoga

Power yoga is a dynamic, fitness-oriented yoga style with strength-focused flow sequences, breath focus and frequent proximity to Vinyasa or Ashtanga. It is modelled as a practice/class met…

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Powerboat Racing

Powerboat Racing is motorboat racing: race boats compete on marked water courses in classes, heats or time/placing formats. Boat class, driver/crew communication, safety equipment, course d…

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Powerchair Football

indoor football for people in wheelchairs. At its core, the sport is about play the ball into the opponent's goal using the powerchair and footguard. Participation format: 4 vs 4. It is typ…

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Powerchair Hockey

Powerchair hockey is hockey for athletes using powered wheelchairs, where teams use sticks or T-sticks to play a ball into the opponent's goal. At its core, the sport is about play the ball…

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Powerlifting

tests of strength on three lifts: dead lift, bench press and squat. At its core, the sport is about achieve the highest valid total across squat, bench press, and deadlift. Participation fo…

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Practical shooting

Practical shooting is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about hit targets as accurately as possible with le…

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Pradal Serey

Pradal Serey, today often called Kun Khmer, is a Cambodian full-contact striking sport. It uses punches, kicks, knees, elbows and clinch in the ring; effective strikes, distance, conditioni…

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Prellball

Prellball is a German Gymnastics Federation team ball sport played on an 8 x 16 m indoor court divided by a net. Teams bounce the ball in their own half and play it over the net partition i…

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Prizefighting

Prizefighting is not a clean modern beginner competition entry in the catalogue, but a historically/professionally loaded term for prize or bare-knuckle boxing contests. For modern particip…

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Prone Paddleboarding

Prone paddleboarding is paddleboard racing with traditional prone or kneeling action: athletes move the board with arm stroke and body work, not a standing paddle. Technical and distance ra…

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Pumpkin Chucking

Pumpkin chucking is an event-based distance contest in which teams launch pumpkins with approved devices such as slingshots, catapults, trebuchets or air cannons. Source coverage is event-d…

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Pursuit Racing

Pursuit racing is track cycling pursuit on a velodrome. Individuals or four-rider teams start opposite each other, race the announced distance against the clock and can win by catching or b…

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Pushball

Pushball is a historical team game with a very large ball that is pushed together over goal or end lines. Early Spalding rules document teams, field, goals and scoring; modern forms are mai…

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Qianball

Qianball is a rare racket game in which two or four players stand on the same side of a low net and strike a ball attached to an elastic tether. Sources describe a player zone, ball zone, f…

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Qigong

Qigong is a Chinese mind-body practice using calm movement, breathing, attention and body awareness. General practice is not a competition sport; health-qigong competitions are a specific r…

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Quadball

Quadball is the current name of the mixed-gender team sport formerly known as Muggle Quidditch. Teams play with multiple balls, hoops, contact rules, and roles such as chaser, beater, keepe…

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Quadrathlon

Quadrathlon is an endurance multisport combining swimming, cycling, kayak/paddling and running. The sequence starts with swimming and ends with running; the bike and kayak legs can switch b…

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Quadrobics

Quadrobics is a modern movement and fitness practice in which people walk, run, jump or balance on all fours while mimicking animal movement. It is more of a community, class and challenge…

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quarter-horse racing

Quarter horse racing is horse racing with American Quarter Horses and a strong short-sprint focus. Start, acceleration, short distance, track condition and identification of registered hors…

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Quiz Bowl

Quiz bowl is an academic team quiz competition with tossup and bonus questions, moderator, buzzer system and rules for interruption, eligibility to answer and team conferral. IQBT, NAQT, AC…

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Quoits

a traditional target throwing game in which rings are thrown at a target spike, the aim is to get them as close as possible to the target. At its core, the sport is about place one's balls…

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Race walking

Race walking is an athletics discipline. Athletes must maintain visible contact with the ground and keep the advancing leg straightened from first contact until vertical; speed counts only…

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