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Racerunning

Racerunning is an athletics or running discipline in which time, distance, height, length, or endurance determines the result. At its core, the objective is the fastest time, greatest heigh…

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Racketlon

Racketlon 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 score more total points a…

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rackets

rackets 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 strike the ball legally aga…

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Racquetball

Racquetball 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 when the op…

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Racquets / Rackets

Racquets / Rackets 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 strike the ball…

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Radball

Radball is a riding or cycling sport in which speed, technique, endurance, or skill on a course matters. Participation format: Individual, team, and para formats. It is typically contested…

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Radsport

Radsport is a riding or cycling sport in which speed, technique, endurance, or skill on a course matters. Participation format: Individual, team, and para formats. It is typically contested…

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Raffa Bocce

Raffa Bocce is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about place one's balls closer to the jack or into a bette…

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Rafting

Rafting is team paddling in an inflatable raft on whitewater or demanding river sections. In competition, slalom, downriver/sprint, head-to-head or similar formats count depending on federa…

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Rally

Rally is automobile motorsport on closed special stages or regulated rally routes. Driver and co-driver work with recce, pace notes, roadbook, service windows, safety zones and FIA/national…

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Rally Obedience

Rally obedience is a dog sport in which dog-handler teams complete a signposted course of obedience exercises, turns, halts, position changes and ring procedure. AKC and FCI sources documen…

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Rally Racing (Motorbike)

Motorcycle rally racing is motorcycle rally raid or cross-country rally sport with roadbook, waypoints, stages, terrain riding, self-management and FIM/event rules. It is not identical to c…

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Rallycross

Rallycross is car motorsport on short closed mixed-surface courses with multiple cars directly racing in heats. Starts, gravel/asphalt changes, joker lap, final structure, scrutineering and…

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Ranch Riding

Ranch riding is a western riding class in which a horse is presented through a pattern as forward, rideable, work-like and controlled. Judging covers gaits, transitions, stops, back-up, cha…

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Ranch Sorting

Ranch sorting is a western riding team sport in which riders sort numbered cattle from one pen to another in the required order. Cattle reading, gate work, team communication, time and rule…

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Rasenkraftsport

Rasenkraftsport is a German strength-athletics throwing combined event made up of hammer throw, weight throw and stone put; individual events also exist. Distance, combined-event points and…

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Rasenmähertreckerrennen

Lawn mower racing is grassroots regional motorsport with modified or rule-compliant riding mowers. Sources such as USLMRA/NELMRA document classes, safety gear, technical rules and local cha…

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Real Tennis

Real tennis, called court tennis in the United States, is the historic indoor tennis form with an asymmetric specialist court, walls, penthouses, galleries, net and chase rules. Club and ch…

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Rec Footy

an accessible non-contact version of Australian Football. At its core, the sport is about score goals through the central posts and behinds through the outer posts. Participation format: Fu…

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Recreational Cave Hiking

Recreational cave hiking is non-competitive outdoor travel through suitable show, guided or easy natural caves. The focus is orientation, footing, light management, group discipline, permis…

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Red Bull Air Race Weltmeisterschaft

The Red Bull Air Race World Championship was an FAI-sanctioned air-racing series in which pilots flew individually against the clock through air gates/pylons. It belongs to air sport and is…

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Reining

Reining is a western riding discipline in which horse and rider perform a prescribed pattern in an arena. Circles, speed control, flying lead changes, rollbacks, spins, back-up, hesitation…

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rejoneo

Rejoneo is a mounted tauromaquia variant in which the taurine sequence is performed from horseback. Legal sources cover rejoneo within Spain's bullfighting spectacle regulation, but the ent…

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Relay Race

Relay race is an athletics running event in which teams run sections of a race and pass the baton legally within the exchange zone.

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Relay swimming

Relay swimming is a swimming relay: multiple swimmers complete fixed legs in sequence, with order, exchanges, touches, start/takeover rules and team time deciding the result. The format bel…

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Renju

Renju is a professional five-in-a-row board game on a Go-like board with special black restrictions and opening rules to keep the game balanced. RIF sources document rules and tournament st…

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Rettungssport

Rettungssport is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the sport is about complete rescue-specific tasks faster and more cleanly than compet…

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Rhönradturnen

Rhönradturnen is a riding or cycling sport in which speed, technique, endurance, or skill on a course matters. At its core, the objective is a difficult, cleanly executed routine with minim…

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Rhythmic Gymnastics

uses the elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation. At its core, the sport is about perform routines judged by difficulty, execution, and discipline-specific require…

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Rhythmische Sportgymnastik

Rhythmische Sportgymnastik 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 difficu…

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Ricochet

Ricochet 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 strike the ball legally ag…

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Ring riding

Ring riding is a regional mounted precision and traditional sport: riders try to hit small rings on a ring tree/gallows with a lance or sticker while cantering. Scoring, titles and flow dep…

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Ringball

a court game from South Africa very similar to netball. At its core, the sport is about score more goals through the ring than the opposition. Participation format: Teams. It is typically c…

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Ringette

Ringette is an ice team game with skates, straight stick and rubber ring. Teams play to score goals, use passing and zone rules and win by goals rather than generic winter-sport scoring.

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Rings

gymnastics routine using a pair of rings, that are suspended by straps. At its core, the sport is about perform routines judged by difficulty, execution, and discipline-specific requirement…

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Ringtennis

Ringtennis 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 hit the ball over the ne…

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Rink Bandy

Rink bandy is a bandy variant on a hockey or ice-rink surface. It is played with a ball, curved sticks, goals, skates and bandy-style passing/positioning on a smaller ice surface.

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Rink Hockey

Rink Hockey is a hockey variant in which a ball or puck is played with sticks toward a target or goal. At its core, the sport is about play the ball into the opposing goal using the stick.…

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Rinkball

Rinkball, Finnish kaukalopallo, is an ice team game in a rink with ball and sticks. It sits between bandy and hockey traditions but uses a ball, its own rinkball rules and a Finnish-influen…

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Ritinis

Ritinis is a ball or target-game sport in which points, goals, hits, or sets decide competition. At its core, the sport is about advance the ring legally and score more points than the oppo…

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Riverboarding

Riverboarding or hydrospeed is whitewater descent with board, fins, helmet, PFD and cold protection. Instead of sitting in a boat, you are directly in the water and steer through board posi…

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Road Bicycle Racing

Road bicycle racing is road cycling on secured road courses. Riders or teams use drafting, attacks, feeding, team roles, time trials or stage-race logic; it is not track cycling or generic…

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Road Bowling

Road Bowling is a precision sport in which accuracy, control, and tactical placement determine the score. At its core, the sport is about knock down as many pins as possible with the ball.…

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Road Cycling

Road cycling is cycle sport on public or closed roads, with events such as road races, time trials, stage races, criteriums, and long-distance formats. Participation format: Individual, tea…

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road race

road race is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the objective is the fastest time, greatest height/distance, or highest combined-event sc…

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Road running

Road running covers organised and informal running on roads and measured paved courses, from 5K and 10K to half marathon, marathon and further distances. Entry is low-barrier for beginners,…

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Road Skating

Road skating is a roller/inline racing discipline on closed road courses or marathon routes. Time, finish placing, points or elimination formats are used depending on event.

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Road Tennis

a version of tennis played on a smaller court with paddles and a low wooden net. At its core, the sport is about hit the ball over the net into the opponent's court so the other player or t…

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Robot Combat

Robot Combat is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the sport is about disable the opposing robot in an enclosed arena or win on judges' d…

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Robot Soccer

Robot Soccer is a football-code variant in which teams use possession, territory, and scoring plays to win points. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposing team. P…

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Robot sports

Robot sports is an umbrella context for robotics competitions in which teams build, program and test robots under league rules. Depending on format, it covers robot soccer, rescue/mission t…

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Roboterfußball

Roboterfußball is a football-code variant in which teams use possession, territory, and scoring plays to win points. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposing team.…

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Rock ’n’ Roll (Tanz)

Rock ’n’ Roll (Tanz) is a dance sport in which technique, rhythm, expression, and presentation are judged. At its core, the objective is a legal, technically and musically stronger dance pe…

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Rock Climbing

Rock Climbing is an outdoor sport in which terrain, technique, navigation, or body control is decisive. At its core, the objective is the highest reached zone/height, fastest time, or best…

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Rocket League Esports

Rocket League esports is organised competition in the car-football game Rocket League. Teams control vehicles in arenas and try to put the ball into the opposing goal.

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Rocket sports

Space/model rocketry uses model rockets, approved motors, recovery systems and safety distances. In FAI/NAR contexts, altitude, duration, precision, scale models or rocket gliders are score…

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Rodeo

Rodeo is an arena umbrella format for regulated competitions with horses or cattle. Depending on the event, judge points, time, penalties, control, safety rules and animal-welfare requireme…

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Rogaining

involves cross-country navigation over long distances. At its core, the sport is about collect as many checkpoint points as possible within the time limit. Participation format: Teams of 2…

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Roll Ball

Roll Ball is a ball or target-game sport in which points, goals, hits, or sets decide competition. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposition while skating. Partic…

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Roller Derby

Roller derby is a contact-heavy tactical team roller sport on a flat oval track. Jams, jammer, blockers, pack position, legal blocks and points per passed opponent define play on quad skate…

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