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Seilspringen

Rope skipping or jump rope is a fitness and competition sport with individual, team, speed, freestyle, pair and double-dutch formats. Rhythm, coordination, endurance, jump technique and eve…

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Sepak Raga

Sepak raga is a traditional Southeast Asian rattan-ball game in which players keep the ball in the air in a circle using feet, knees, chest, shoulders or head. It is not the modern net spor…

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Sepak Takraw

Sepak Takraw is a ball or target-game sport in which points, goals, hits, or sets decide competition. At its core, the sport is about send the ball legally over the net and win rallies. Par…

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Shaolin Kempo

Shaolin Kempo is treated here as a school- and lineage-dependent martial art. Documented training elements include kihon, kata/saifa, kumite, controlled sparring, self-defence, breakfalls a…

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Sheepdog Trials

Sheepdog trials are herding-dog competitions in which dog and handler move sheep calmly and precisely over a field course, through gates and into a pen. Line, timing, dog-handler communicat…

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Shinty

Shinty 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 opposing team. Participation format…

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Shinty-Hurling

Shinty-Hurling is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposing team. Participation format: Te…

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Shōgi

Shōgi is a mind sport in which strategy, calculation, and tactical decisions determine competition. At its core, the sport is about checkmate the opposing king or win by a rules-defined adv…

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Shoot Boxing

Shoot boxing is a stand-up combat sport founded in Japan in 1985. In addition to punches and kicks, throws and standing submissions are allowed; ground fighting and attacks on downed oppone…

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shooting

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 legal equipm…

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Shooting Para Sport

Shooting Para sport is World Shooting Para Sport with classified rifle and pistol events. SH1, SH2 and vision-impairment contexts determine assistance and scoring; normal ISSF/Olympic shoot…

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Shooting Sports

many events involving shooting at targets using guns like pistols and rifles. At its core, the sport is about hit targets as accurately as possible with legal equipment. Participation forma…

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Shooto

Shooto is a Japanese MMA-adjacent combat sport with stand-up fighting, clinch, throws, ground fighting and submissions. Amateur and professional classes differ in protection, rounds, permit…

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Short Track Speed Skating

Short track speed skating is ice speed skating on a tight 111.12 m oval with direct heats. Placing, passing, corner line, relay or individual racing and ISU penalty rules shape competition.

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Shot Put

Shot put is a World Athletics throwing event. The shot is put from the circle from the neck/shoulder position; the greatest valid distance in the marked sector counts.

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Show Jumping

Show jumping is an FEI equestrian discipline in which horse and rider complete a course of knockable obstacles as cleanly and within the allowed time as possible. Knockdowns, refusals, time…

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Show Skiing

Show skiing is a team waterski discipline combining ski, barefoot, jump, pyramid and choreography acts into a water show. Acts, flow, execution, difficulty, showmanship and team organisatio…

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Showdown

a game for blind and visually impaired people similar to air hockey. At its core, the sport is about hit the ball into the opponent's goal and prevent goals against. Participation format: S…

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Shuai Jiao

Shuai Jiao is Chinese jacket wrestling focused on standing grappling, grips, sweeps, throws and off-balancing. Sport rules score controlled throws, standing control, step-outs and fouls; st…

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Shuffleboard

players use cues to push and slide weighted discs along a long court into a scoring area. At its core, the sport is about place one's discs in high-scoring zones and knock opposing discs ou…

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Shuttlecock

Shuttlecock 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 shuttle over…

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Sidecarcross

Sidecarcross is motocross with a sidecar outfit: rider and passenger race on a closed off-road track with jumps, turns, ruts and active weight shifting. It is not road racing and not an aut…

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Sikaran

Sikaran is a Filipino martial art with a strong focus on kicks, footwork, range and mobility. Sources describe it as kick fighting from the Rizal/Baras context; modern lineages, history and…

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Sim racing

Sim racing is digital motorsport with realistic vehicle physics, tracks, setup and race rules. Depending on platform, formats range from rookie leagues to official F1, NASCAR or iRacing ser…

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Singlestick

Singlestick is historical stick fencing with a short wooden stick and hand guard, closely related to broadsword, sabre and cutlass training. Today it is mainly a HEMA/historical fencing con…

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Sipa

Sipa is a traditional Philippine kicking game. Depending on variant, a light sipa/shuttlecock object, washer or soft rattan ball is kept in the air or played over a net using foot, leg and…

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Sitting Volleyball

a version of volleyball for disabled athletes played while sitting (also known as Paralympic volleyball). At its core, the sport is about send the ball over the net so the opposing team can…

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Sitzball

Sitzball 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 play the ball over the ban…

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Sitzfußball

Sitzfußball 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. Pa…

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Sitzvolleyball

Sitzvolleyball is a volleyball variant in which teams play the ball over a net and score rallies. At its core, the sport is about send the ball over the net so the opposing team cannot make…

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six-day race

six-day race is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. Participation format: Individual, team, and para formats. It is typically contested on or in Road,…

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Six-Man Football

a modification of American football played with 6 instead of 11 players. At its core, the sport is about advance the ball into the end zone by running or passing, or to score with kicks. Pa…

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Sixes Lacrosse

Sixes Lacrosse 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 opposing team. Participatio…

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Skat

Skat is a mind sport in which strategy, calculation, and tactical decisions determine competition. At its core, the sport is about fulfil the announced contract as declarer or prevent it as…

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Skateboarding

competitions involving tricks or races while standing on a flat board with rollers attached at the bottom. At its core, the objective is the highest judged score or best combined score from…

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Skating

Skating is an umbrella term for sport and movement on blades or wheels, including ice skating, inline skating, roller skating, speed, figure, hockey and trick disciplines. Concrete rules de…

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Skee-Ball

Skee-Ball is an arcade alley game in which balls are rolled up an inclined lane into target rings with different point values. As competition it is usually bar-, arcade- or social-league ba…

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Skeet Shooting

one of the disciplines of clay pigeon shooting, targets are thrown in singles and doubles from two traps situated 40m apart. At its core, the sport is about hit targets as accurately as pos…

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Skeleton

Skeleton is an ice-track sport where athletes sprint-start and ride head-first, face-down on a skeleton sled. Start power, aerodynamics, line choice, small body inputs and IBSF rules determ…

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Ski Archery

Ski archery combines cross-country skiing sections with archery and resembles biathlon in effort pattern. The sport is rare; World Archery lists it as a discipline, but not as a current cal…

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Ski Cross

Ski cross is alpine head-to-head racing on a course with start gates, rollers, banked turns, jumps and direct passing. It is scored by heat and round placing, not generic winter-sport scori…

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Ski Flying

Ski flying is the flying-hill specialist form of ski jumping. Athletes jump on very large hills where distance, flight position, telemark landing, wind compensation and judge/point scoring…

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Ski Jumping

Ski jumping is a Nordic ski discipline on jumping hills. Inrun, takeoff, flight position, distance, telemark landing, style marks and wind/gate compensation determine scoring.

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Ski Mountaineering

Ski mountaineering combines skinning climbs, carry/bootpack sections, fast transitions and descents on marked mountain or race courses. ISMF/skimo rules make ascent, transition zones, manda…

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Ski Orienteering

Ski orienteering is orienteering on cross-country skis: athletes read a specialist ski-O map, choose routes in the track network and punch controls. Map contact, route choice and the trail…

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Ski Sledding

Ski sledding here describes a ski-sled/SkiBock recreation context: a low seat or attachment on skis is steered on approved snow. The source base is product- and recreation-oriented, so it i…

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Skiboarding

Skiboarding uses short skiboards/short skis on snow and ski slopes. The core is agile turning, easy slope progression and small features in niche/recreational skiing rather than a FIS calen…

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Skibobbing

Skibobbing is winter sport with a skibob/snowbike: seat, handlebar, front and rear ski plus foot skis are steered on ski slopes. FISB documents clubs, rules and competitions.

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Skiing

Skiing is the broad snow-skiing umbrella: alpine skiing, cross-country, ski jumping, Nordic combined and freestyle have their own rules and entry paths. Snow skiing is an alias here, not a…

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Skijoring

Skijoring combines skiing with pulling power, commonly by one or two dogs and regionally also by horses. Dog skijoring is documented in IFSS rules; horse forms are often organiser- and regi…

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Skimboarding

Skimboarding is a beach and water sport in which a flat board is launched across shallow shore water or into a wave. Competitions judge runs, wave manoeuvres, technique and execution.

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Skirmish

Skirmish here means airsoft skirmishing: teams play scenarios with airsoft replicas, BBs, eye protection, marshals and field rules in an airsoft/precision-sport context.

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Skittles

Skittles is a traditional skittles/bowling game, especially in British pub and club contexts: a ball is thrown at usually nine pins in an alley. It is not a winter sport.

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Skwal

Skwal is a niche winter-sport device between snowboard, monoski and carving contexts: the feet stand almost inline on a narrow board. The scene is source-light and community/equipment drive…

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Skydiving

Skydiving is an air sport in which jumpers exit an aircraft or suitable aerial platform, perform freefall or canopy tasks, and land safely in a designated landing area.

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Skyrunning

Skyrunning 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 legal completion of a…

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Skysurfing

Skysurfing is an advanced parachuting/artistic-skydiving discipline: a releasable board is attached to the feet in freefall, often with a camera flyer, specialist briefing and drop-zone saf…

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Slackline

Slackline is an outdoor sport in which terrain, technique, navigation, or body control is decisive. At its core, the sport is about depending on the format, the objective is controlled walk…

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Slacklining

balancing and doing tricks along a suspended length of flat webbing that is tensioned between two anchors. At its core, the sport is about depending on the format, the objective is controll…

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Slalom Skiing

Slalom skiing is the technical alpine skiing discipline with tight gate sequences. Athletes complete two runs on different course sets; aggregate time decides if all gates are passed legall…

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