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Wing Foiling

Wing foiling is a boardsport using a hand-held wing and hydrofoil board. GWA/Wingfoil Racing and World Sailing contexts document race, tour and class rules; wind window, deep water and clea…

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Wing Tsun

Wing Tsun is treated here as a school- and lineage-dependent Chinese martial-art and self-defence practice. Centreline, structure, chi sao, forms work and partner drills are central; a unif…

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Wingsuit Flying

Wingsuit flying is an advanced skydiving discipline in which a wingsuit enables gliding flight between exit and parachute deployment. Entry requires skydiving training, current jump experie…

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Winter Guard

Winter guard is indoor color guard: teams combine dance, choreography, formations and equipment work with flags, sabres or rifle props on a performance floor. The name refers to the indoor/…

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Winter pentathlon

Winter pentathlon is mainly a historical multisport context: in 1948 at St. Moritz it was held as an Olympic demonstration event with cross-country skiing, shooting, downhill skiing, fencin…

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Winter Triathlon

Winter triathlon is a snow multisport combining running, mountain/fat bike and cross-country skiing. Endurance, grip, transitions, cold management and equipment choice matter instead of swi…

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Wok Racing

Wok racing is an unusual sliding/show event in which modified woks are ridden down a bobsleigh track. Sources mainly document event and TV context, so the entry remains catalog-sourced and…

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Women's lacrosse

a limited-contact version of lacrosse. At its core, the sport is about score more goals than the opposing team. Participation format: Team play in field, box, and sixes. It is typically con…

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Wood Chopping

participants attempt to cut or saw a log or other types of wood in the quickest time. At its core, the sport is about complete logging-skill disciplines such as chopping, sawing, climbing,…

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Woodball

Woodball is a ball or target-game sport in which points, goals, hits, or sets decide competition. At its core, the sport is about complete all fairways/gates in as few strokes as possible.…

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Working Equitation

Working equitation is a horse-rider competition built around dressage trial, ease of handling, speed trial and optional cattle trial. It combines dressage foundations, obstacles, pace, team…

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a direct combat sport on the mat. Athletes try to win through hand fighting, takedowns, throws, control, technical points or a fall; modern international contexts include frees…

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Wurfscheibenschießen

Clay target shooting is a shooting sport in which athletes use shotguns to hit flying clay targets. Variants such as trap, skeet, and sporting clays differ by target machines, flight paths,…

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Wushu

Wushu is the modern sport and martial-art context for Chinese martial arts disciplines. In competition, Taolu forms are scored for technical execution and difficulty; Sanda is the separate…

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Xare

Xare is a pelota variant in which the ball is caught and returned with a ring-shaped racket or net implement. It belongs to the Basque pelota family and is played on a fronton/court under m…

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XC Mountain Biking

XC mountain biking is cross-country mountain bike racing on circuits or point-to-point courses with climbs, descents, technical sections, and natural terrain. Scoring is by time or placing;…

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Xiangqi

Xiangqi is Chinese chess, played with pieces on line intersections, palace, river and specific movement rules. WXF sources document international rules, tournament and federation structure.

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Xingyiquan / Xing Yi Quan

Xingyiquan, also Xing Yi Quan, is an internal Chinese martial-art style with linear power, San Ti standing, Five Elements fists and partner applications. The entry is treated source-critica…

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Yabusame

Yabusame is Japanese mounted archery where riders shoot traditional bows at targets while galloping. At its core, the sport is about shoot arrows as accurately as possible at a target. Part…

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Yachting

Yachting here means sport sailing and yacht racing with yachts or larger sailing boats. Wind, course, trim, crew roles, safety and rule knowledge in a water sailing area are decisive.

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Yagli Gures / Oil Wrestling

Yagli gures, or oil wrestling, is traditional Turkish oil wrestling. Pehlivan wrestle oiled in kispet leather trousers on grass; the aim is a legal control, fall or referee decision in its…

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Yak Polo

Yak polo is a rare regional polo variant described in sources mainly as a festival, tourism or cultural context in highland regions. It borrows polo ideas with mallet, ball and goals but us…

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Yin yoga

Yin yoga is a slow yoga style with longer-held, mostly floor-based positions and props. The focus is calm, awareness and controlled stretch, not competition.

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Yo-Yo

Yo-yo is a skill and freestyle competition sport with divisions such as 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A and 5A. Technical elements, difficulty, execution, musicality, choreography and deductions are scored.

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Yoga

Yoga is a movement, breathing, and concentration practice using postures, breathing exercises, movement sequences, and relaxation. As a modern health, fitness, and sport-support activity it…

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Yotsudama

Yotsudama is an East Asian four-ball carom billiards variant. Each player uses one cue ball and scores when that cue ball contacts two other balls in a single shot; different ball combinati…

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Yubi Lakpi

a seven-a-side traditional football game with similarities to rugby played in Manipur, India, using a coconut. At its core, the sport is about rugby codes aim to carry or kick the ball into…

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Yukigassen

Yukigassen is a rule-based snow team game with standardised snowballs, shelters, hit/elimination logic and flag objective. It is not free snowball throwing, but a short tactical court game.

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Zorb Football

Zorb Football 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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Zourkhaneh

Zourkhaneh / Zurkhaneh in this catalogue denotes the sport and practice form inside the traditional Iranian house of strength. The entry is modelled as a variant/part context of `varzesh-e-…

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Zui Quan

Zui Quan, often described as drunken boxing, is a Chinese martial-art and wushu forms context with apparently stumbling but actually controlled movement, acrobatics and body deception. It m…

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Zumba

Zumba is a brand-based dance-fitness class format with music, simple step patterns and licensed instructor structures. It is modelled as a fitness method, not as a judged or point-scored co…

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Zwergenwerfen

Dwarf tossing was a controversial attraction in which people with dwarfism were used as throwing objects. The entry is documented for historical and legal-ethical reasons, but not as a legi…

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