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Caving

Caving is guided or club-based cave exploration with lights, helmet, team rules, access permission and conservation. It is not a running or contest format, but a technical outdoor practice…

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Cestoball

Cestoball is a team ball game built around passing and shots at high basket targets. It is played especially in Argentine and international cestoball contexts and has its own rule structure.

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Charreada

Charreada is Mexican equestrian and ranch sport with multiple suertes in a lienzo charro. Entry belongs in experienced charro, riding and event structures; animal welfare, rules and cultura…

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Chase Tag

Chase tag is an obstacle tag game built around short 1v1 chases. On a quad or safe obstacle area, one player tries to tag the other by hand inside a time window; evasion, line choice and sa…

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Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a team acrobatic and performance sport with stunts, pyramids, tumbling, jumps, dance, motions and choreography. Safety, level rules, spotters and repeatable team timing are…

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Chess

Chess is a strategic mind sport for two players on an 8x8 board. The goal is to checkmate the opposing king; tournaments use time controls, game results and tie-break scoring.

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Chessboxing

Chessboxing combines chess and boxing in alternating rounds. Depending on rules, wins come by checkmate, chess-clock/chess result, resignation, knockout or boxing points; it is a hybrid, no…

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Chilean rodeo

Chilean rodeo is a national Chilean equestrian and traditional sport in the medialuna arena. Two riders as a collera work with horses and cattle under Ferochi rules; because of animal conta…

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Chinese Handball

Chinese handball is a street and schoolyard wall-ball game. Typically a ball is played floor-first and then against a wall; local variants such as Ace-King-Queen use their own rotation or e…

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Chinlone

Chinlone, also called caneball, is a traditional ball game from Myanmar. Players in a circle keep a rattan ball aloft with feet, knees, head or other permitted body parts; rhythm, style and…

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Chuckwagon Racing

Chuckwagon racing is professional horse-and-wagon racing from the prairie/rodeo context. Teams with wagon, horses and outriders run heats on a racetrack; safety and animal welfare are centr…

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Circle Rules Football

Circle rules football is a community-based team ball game on a circular field with one central goal and a large ball. Teams attack the same goal from opposite directions; the key zone, hold…

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Circus Arts

Circus arts are a broad training and performance field spanning aerial, acrobatics, balance, handstand, juggling and related disciplines. The focus is safe entry, skill progression and appa…

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Cirit

Cirit, also jereed, is a traditional mounted game in which rider teams score with blunt throwing sticks/javelins, evasion, pursuit and riding control. The card follows regional cirit/jereed…

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Clay pigeon shooting

Clay pigeon shooting is shotgun shooting at flying clay targets. The name is historical; the sport is not about animals, but about targets, safe range procedures, stations and hit scoring.

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Clean and Jerk

Clean and jerk is the second Olympic weightlifting lift after the snatch. The barbell is first cleaned to the shoulders and then jerked overhead under the rules; the best valid lift is rank…

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Cliff Diving

Cliff diving is jumping from natural or artificial heights into deep water. Site clearance, water depth, entry line, rescue plan, body control and, in events, technical dive scoring are dec…

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Climbing

Climbing covers climbing forms on walls, rock or bouldering areas. Depending on context, top, zone, height, time or a safe free ascent matters; gym, outdoor and IFSC competition rules must…

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Clout Archery

Clout archery is a long-distance archery discipline. Instead of a normal target face, arrows are shot toward a distant flag with ground scoring zones; distance judgement, trajectory, wind a…

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Club Swinging

Club swinging is historic gymnastics and modern mobility/coordination practice with light clubs. This entry separates today's training from the former Olympic competition format and does no…

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Club Throw

Club throw is a para-athletics throwing event. Athletes throw a club-shaped implement for distance from a secured seated position or throwing frame; classification, frame setup, cage and of…

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Coastal (offshore) rowing

Coastal (offshore) rowing is rowing on coastal, wave-affected or open water with more robust boats, navigation, buoy turns and safety planning. Beach sprints and coastal championships form…

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Coasteering

Coasteering combines swimming, scrambling, jumping and traversing in the surf and rocky foreshore of a coast. NCC sources define guide, safety, equipment and environmental requirements.

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Cocked Hat

Cocked hat is a historic three-pin bowling form. Sources describe narrower/shorter lanes, three pins and small holeless balls; today the entry is more catalog-sourced than a normal league s…

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Cockfighting

Cockfighting refers to contexts in which roosters are set against each other. This entry is handled source-critically as a historical, regionally regulated or prohibited animal-fighting con…

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Coleo

Coleo is a regional llanero equestrian sport in Venezuelan/Colombian contexts. Riders pursue cattle in a narrow manga de coleo and try to complete a rule-compliant coleada; scoring, zones,…

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Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling is the US folkstyle wrestling variant in college/NCAA contexts. Scoring includes takedowns, escapes, reversals, near falls, riding time, technical superiority and pins;…

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Combatschießen

Combatschiessen is treated here as a source-critical boundary case around sport shooting and practical shooting. Legal context, approved sport rules and supervision are decisive; the entry…

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Combined driving

Combined driving is a carriage-driving combined event with horse or pony. The FEI/USEF discipline combines driven dressage, marathon hazards and cones; the lowest penalty total after the te…

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Competitive Debating

Competitive debating is a format-based speech competition in which teams or individual speakers argue a motion from proposition and opposition perspectives. WUDC and World Schools sources d…

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Competitive Eating

Competitive eating is a sanctioned eating-contest and show format in which a valid quantity is consumed within a time limit. Event rules, judges, timing and safety protocols are central; it…

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Competitive Programming

Competitive programming is an algorithmic programming contest. Participants solve problems under time limits, submit code to a judge system and are scored by solved problems, points, time o…

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Competitive Tetris

Competitive Tetris is a puzzle esport where players compete in Tetris under title-, platform- and event-specific rules for score, survival, speed or head-to-head wins.

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Competitive Typing

Competitive typing measures how quickly and accurately a prescribed text is entered within a defined time window. Organised formats include online contests and text-production competitions;…

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Contemporary Dance Competition

Contemporary dance competition is a dance contest judged on contemporary technique, movement quality, expression, and choreography. Its flow follows the sport's rules and combines technique…

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Contortion

Contortion is a circus, acrobatics and flexibility discipline in which extreme body positions, backbends, balances and transitions are built with control. Training, performance and safe pro…

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Corkball

Corkball is a regional St. Louis bat-and-ball game using a small corkball, very narrow bat and compact field. It borrows pitching, catching and hitting from baseball, but does not use norma…

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Cornhole

Cornhole is a beanbag target game with two angled boards and scoring for bags on the board or in the hole. ACO/ACL/WSOC rules document organised competition forms.

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Cornish wrestling

Cornish wrestling is a traditional jacket-wrestling style from Cornwall. Opponents grip the regulation jacket, throw from standing and try to put the opponent onto the back for pins/back sc…

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Counter-Strike 2 Esports

Counter-Strike 2 esports is organised competition in Valve's tactical shooter Counter-Strike 2. Teams play round-based attack/defence matches around bomb sites or eliminations.

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Coursing

Coursing is modelled here as modern lure coursing: sighthounds run across an open field after an artificial lure course. The entry is deliberately separate from hare coursing with live quar…

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Cowboy Action Shooting

Cowboy action shooting is a SASS-shaped shooting sport with Old West stage scenarios, time scoring, target hits and strict safety rules. Equipment, stage flow and scoring follow its own mat…

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Cowboy Mounted Shooting

Cowboy mounted shooting is a riding and target competition: riders complete a pattern and hit balloon targets with rule-compliant equipment. Scoring uses time and penalties in the mounted-s…

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Cowboy Polo

Cowboy polo is a regional historical polo variant with western/Quarter Horse context. The source base points to written rules and former organisation, but also decline and disbanding of the…

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CP Football

CP football is 7-a-side football for athletes with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury or comparable neurological impairments. IFCPF rules use FT classes, smaller fields, shorter match ti…

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Crab Soccer / Crab Football

Crab soccer or crab football is an informal team game in which players move in crab-walk position on hands and feet and try to get a ball into the opponent goal. House rules, safe space and…

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Crazy Golf

Crazy golf is an obstacle and themed form of minigolf. Players use putter and ball on short artificial holes, aiming to get the ball through obstacles into the hole in as few strokes as pos…

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Cricket

Cricket is an active bat-and-ball team sport. Two teams bat, bowl and field on a cricket ground with a central pitch; runs, wickets, overs and match format shape strategy.

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Cricko

Cricko is documented from source context as a historical Queensland variant around cricket and vigoro. The reliable material mainly places it in early Queensland women's sport as a faster g…

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Crokinole

Crokinole is a round board game in which small discs are flicked by finger to hit opposing discs and reach higher scoring zones.

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Croquet

Croquet is an active precision and tactics sport on lawn. Players use mallets to play balls through hoops and to the peg in defined order; association croquet and golf croquet are central m…

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Cross Country Running

Cross country running is a running/athletics event on natural terrain such as grass, woodland paths, hills or mud. Fastest valid finish time and optional team scoring decide the result.

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Cross triathlon

Cross triathlon is an off-road multisport event of swimming, mountain biking and cross-country/trail running. Unlike classic road triathlon, the bike and run sections are technical, hilly a…

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Cross-country equestrian

Cross-country equestrian describes the cross-country phase in eventing contexts. Horse and rider complete a course with fixed obstacles, water, terrain, line choice and optimum time; faults…

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Cross-country Mountain Biking

Cross-country mountain biking is an MTB race format on off-road lap courses. Mass start, climbs, descents, technical sections and endurance define the XCO discipline.

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Cross-Country Rally

another name for Rally Raid, an extended form of off-road rally racing. Participation format: Drivers, teams, crews, and constructors. It is typically contested on or in Circuit, road, rall…

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Cross-Country Skiing

races over snow-covered terrain using skis. Participation format: Individual and team. It is typically contested on or in Snow and winter sport venues. Scoring is based on Discipline-specif…

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Crossbow Shooting

Crossbow shooting is a regulated precision sport using sport crossbows and bolts on targets. Crossbow archery is handled here as an alias of this IAU/WCSA-linked crossbow-shooting page.

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CrossFit

Crossfit is a sport or discipline with its own rules, equipment, and scoring formats. At its core, the objective is the best overall performance across multiple workouts and tests. Particip…

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Crossgolf

Crossgolf is an informal off-course golf variant. It is played in permitted safe spaces toward agreed targets; local rules and safety distance matter more than classic golf-course or major-…

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