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Touch Rugby

Touch Rugby is a rugby variant in which teams gain territory, control possession, and score through tries or kicks. At its core, the sport is about score more points than the opposition thr…

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Touchtennis

Touchtennis is a compact tennis variant using a smaller court, shorter rackets, and lower-compression balls. It aims for fast, accessible tennis with shorter movement distances and easier e…

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Tough Mudder

Tough Mudder is an obstacle course event format focused on teamwork, mud courses, and artificial obstacles. At its core, the objective is the fastest rule-compliant completion of an obstacl…

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Touring Car Racing

Touring car racing is circuit motorsport with production-based or homologated touring-car classes. Car regulations, starts, overtaking, tyre/setup work, scrutineering, penalties and series…

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tournament

`Tournament` is not treated in the catalogue as one modern sport, but as a historical umbrella for medieval tournament and hastilude forms such as melee, joust, foot combat, ring tilting or…

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Tower Running

grueling races up tall man-made structures. Also known as Stair Climbing. At its core, the sport is about complete the listed stair/tower course in the fastest valid time. Participation for…

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Track & Field

also known as athletics. At its core, the objective is the fastest time, greatest height/distance, or highest combined-event score depending on discipline. Participation format: Individual,…

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Track Cycling

Track cycling is cycling on a velodrome. Riders use fixed-gear track bikes, usually without brakes; sprint, endurance, time-trial and team formats combine speed, line choice, cadence and ta…

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Track Cycling

bicycle races conducted on velodromes or other specially designed tracks that feature a steep banking. Participation format: Individual, team, and para formats. It is typically contested on…

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Tracking Dog Sport

Tracking dog sport is dog-handler teamwork in terrain: a dog follows a human-laid track and indicates articles along or at the end of the track. Nose work, line handling, track commitment,…

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Tractor Pulling

Tractor pulling is a motorsport pulling contest: modified tractors or trucks pull a weighted sled down a dirt track as far as possible. Classes, safety, scrutineering and track rules depend…

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Trail Riding / Trekking on Horseback

Trail riding on horseback covers longer terrain and travel routes, often as day or multi-day rides. Horse welfare, route planning, navigation, suitable tack, breaks, hoof protection and saf…

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Trail Running

Trail running is running on natural paths, forest trails, mountains or technical terrain with changing surface, elevation, weather and safety requirements.

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Trampoline fitness

Trampoline fitness or rebounding is cardio/fitness training on a mini trampoline. It uses bouncing steps, balance, music and simple strength/endurance intervals; it is not trampoline gymnas…

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Trampoline Gymnastics

Trampoline gymnastics is a gymnastics discipline where athletes perform jump sequences with somersaults, twists, and controlled landings on a trampoline. At its core, the sport is about per…

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Trampolining

Trampolining / trampoline gymnastics is a FIG gymnastics discipline covering individual trampoline, synchronised trampoline, double mini-trampoline and tumbling contexts. Scoring uses diffi…

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Trap Shooting

one of the variants of clay pigeon shooting, where 1 or 2 targets are thrown away from a trap situated 15m in front of the shooter. At its core, the sport is about hit targets as accurately…

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Trapeze

Trapeze is aerial acrobatics on a bar suspended by ropes or straps. Variants such as static, swinging, dance or flying trapeze have different technical and safety requirements.

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trapshooting

trapshooting 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 eq…

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TREC

TREC is an outdoor sport in which terrain, technique, navigation, or body control is decisive. At its core, the objective is clear jumping rounds, precise dressage tests, combined eventing…

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Tree Climbing

competitions in which competitors climb trees as fast as possible using various techniques based on the daily working conditions of arborists. At its core, the objective is the highest reac…

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Treibball

Treibball is a dog sport in which a dog, guided by handler cues, pushes large exercise/herding balls into a goal. It is dog-friendly distance work with ball order, goal zone, handler area a…

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Trekking

Trekking is extended hiking on trails or natural terrain, often as a day to multi-day trip with pack, weather check, navigation, water/food planning and Leave No Trace responsibility. It is…

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Tretrollersport

Tretrollersport is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the sport is about earn the highest score in runs or trick attempts for difficulty,…

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Tretze

Tretze is an informal ball game for at least three people, regionally comparable to Neckball or monkey-in-the-middle. Two outside players throw a ball to each other while the middle player…

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Trial

Trial 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 on…

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Triathle

Triathle is a UIPM development format combining running, laser-pistol shooting and swimming. Sections are combined in rounds and transitions; total time, hits, swimming ability, pacing and…

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Triathlon

Triathlon is an endurance multisport of swimming, cycling and running with transition zones. Total time, pacing, safe swim and bike rules and transition organisation decide.

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Tricking

Tricking is an acrobatic and movement sport rooted in Extreme Martial Arts, combining kicks, flips, twists, gymnastics, breakdance and creative combos. Competition forms are often battle- o…

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Triple Jump

Triple jump is a technical athletics jumping event made of hop, step and jump. Athletes approach, take off legally from the board and land in the sandpit; the greatest valid distance decide…

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Truck Grand Prix

Truck Grand Prix is treated here as a truck-racing/FIA ETRC context: heavy race trucks run on circuits with technical rules, speed limit, safety structure, races, penalties and series point…

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Trugo

Trugo is a mind sport in which strategy, calculation, and tactical decisions determine competition. At its core, the sport is about strike as many rings legally through the goal posts as po…

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Tug of War

two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope. At its core, the sport is about pull the opposing team over the central mark or prescribed distance. Participation format: Teams, internationally…

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Tumbling

a gymnastics event involving tumbling along a mat performing flips, rolls, jumps, performing somersaults and handsprings. At its core, the sport is about perform routines judged by difficul…

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Twenty20

a fast-paced limited over cricket match played 20 overs per team. Also known as T20 Cricket. At its core, the sport is about score more runs than the opposing team while taking wickets when…

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Twenty20 cricket

Twenty20 cricket 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 runs than the opposing team while taking…

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Twirling

Twirling is a dance sport in which technique, rhythm, expression, and presentation are judged. At its core, the objective is a technically clean, creative, musical routine with baton contro…

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Ulama

Ulama is a still-practised Mexican continuation of Mesoamerican ballgame traditions. Depending on the variant, a heavy rubber ball is kept legally in play with the hip, forearm or implement.

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Ultimate

Ultimate is a running-heavy flying-disc team sport without intentional body contact. Teams pass the disc into an end zone; players may not run while holding it. Throwing options, cutting li…

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Ultralight Aviation

Ultralight aviation describes flying very light aircraft under national rules. Entry must go through a flight school, club, local regulation, weather, airspace, maintenance and safety brief…

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Ultramarathon

very long-distance endurance events, ranging from greater than Marathon distance to several days. Ultramarathons can either cover a specified distance, or take place during a specified time…

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Underwater Diving

Underwater diving here means the broad underwater-diving context with training, equipment, buoyancy, breathing gas, buddy system and safety planning. It is not springboard/platform diving;…

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Underwater Football

Underwater football is an underwater team game in a swimming pool where teams wearing mask, snorkel and fins move a weighted ball underwater into the opponent's end zone or goal area. Breat…

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Underwater Hockey

Underwater hockey is a CMAS underwater team game in a swimming pool where teams use a short stick to move a heavy puck along the pool bottom into the opponent's goal trough. Mask, snorkel,…

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Underwater Ice Hockey

Underwater ice hockey is an extremely rare under-ice niche sport: players dive below an ice sheet, play upside down on its underside with puck and stick, and need breath-hold, cold-water an…

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Underwater Orienteering

Underwater orienteering is a CMAS underwater sport in which divers use compass, distance measuring and buoy to complete an underwater course as precisely and quickly as possible. Surfacing,…

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Underwater Photography

In Sporthelix, underwater photography is treated as a CMAS visual competition for underwater photo and video. Safe diving or snorkelling base, camera/housing handling, subject distance, lig…

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Underwater Rugby

Underwater rugby is a CMAS underwater team game in a deep swimming pool. Teams use mask, snorkel, fins and a sinking ball to score in baskets on the pool bottom; contact around the ball is…

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Underwater Target Shooting

Underwater target shooting is a CMAS underwater precision sport in which athletes on breath-hold use a rule-compliant speargun/crossbow on underwater targets in a pool. Body position, sight…

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Underwater Wrestling

Underwater wrestling, also called aquathlon in the CMAS underwater-sport context, is a short underwater bout. Two athletes wearing masks and fins try to remove a ribbon from the opponent's…

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Uneven Bars

an artistic gymnastics apparatus used only by female gymnasts comprising a pair of parallel bars set at different heights (also called asymmetric bars). At its core, the sport is about perf…

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uneven parallel bars

uneven parallel bars 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, e…

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Unicycle Basketball

Unicycle basketball is basketball played on unicycles. Teams pass, dribble and shoot at baskets while riding control, balance, stopping and legal play under IUF/event rules shape the flow.

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Unicycle Handball

Unicycle Handball is a riding or cycling sport in which speed, technique, endurance, or skill on a course matters. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposing team. P…

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Unicycle Hockey

Unicycle hockey is hockey played on unicycles. Teams use sticks to play a ball into goals; riding control, safe stick handling, fairness and IUF/event rules replace field-hockey turf or FIH…

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Unicycle Trials

a form of unicycling that involves participants riding a unicycle over obstacles without any part of the rider touching the ground. Participation format: Individual, team, and para formats.…

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Unicycling

sports using a single-wheel cycle. Participation format: Individual, team, and para formats. It is typically contested on or in Road, velodrome, or terrain depending on the discipline. Scor…

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Unicycling Racing

Unicycling racing is unicycle racing on track, road or defined course. Starts, cadence, balance, lane control, compliant equipment and valid finish time decide the result.

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Unterwasserhockey

Unterwasserhockey 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 s…

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Urban Exploration

Urban exploration is the documentary exploration of urban, often abandoned places only in legal or explicitly permitted contexts. The focus is orientation, photography, place history, safet…

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