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Fives

Fives is a British hand-wallball umbrella context with variants such as Rugby Fives and Eton Fives. It is played with a ball and padded gloves against specialist walls.

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Flag Football

Flag football is a reduced-contact American football variant in which tackles are replaced by pulling a flag. It is often played 5v5 with passing, routes, end zones and quick downs rather t…

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Flat Track Racing

Flat track racing is motorcycle racing on dirt ovals or TT flat-track courses. FIM regulations document the international championship, heats, rider/licence logic and machine examination; A…

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Flight Archery

Flight archery, also called flight shooting in archery, is distance archery: the goal is not a target face but the greatest safe arrow distance within equipment and class rules. It needs ve…

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Flip Cup

Flip cup is a team-based cup-flipping relay format. Players line up at a table, use matching cups and only continue after the previous player has landed their cup validly face down. The soc…

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Floor Exercise

Floor exercise is the floor apparatus in artistic gymnastics. On a sprung floor area, tumbling lines, jumps, strength/hold elements and, for women, choreographic passages are judged by diff…

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Floor Hockey

Floor hockey is an indoor/recreation hockey context on a flat sports-hall floor. Depending on the rule set, sticks and a ball, puck or ring are used; the entry stays separate from IFF floor…

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Floorball

Floorball is an IFF-regulated indoor team sport with lightweight plastic sticks, perforated ball, goals and boards. Teams pass, carry and shoot the ball into the opponent's goal; stick, con…

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Flowboarding

Flowboarding, also flowriding, is a board sport on an artificial sheet-wave facility. Riders use a flowboard or bodyboard, operator clearance and facility rules; it is not open-ocean surfin…

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Fly Fishing

Fly fishing is angling with artificial flies, fly line and specialised casting technique. Competitions and rules cover water sections, catch, time, equipment, conservation rules and scoring…

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Flyball

Flyball is a dog-sport team relay: dogs jump hurdles, trigger a box, retrieve a ball and return. Team passing, box turn, recall, speed and dog safety are decisive.

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Flyboarding

Flyboarding is hydroflight: a rider stands on a board receiving water-jet thrust via hose and personal watercraft. Entry and training belong in supervised operator contexts with a clear wat…

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Foosball

Foosball is a table sport in which players control rod-mounted figures to pass, block and shoot a ball into the opponent's goal. ITSF rules document serving, possession, time limits, fouls…

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Footbag

Footbag is the umbrella for games and competitive disciplines using a small soft bag, including freestyle, net and casual circle play. Hacky Sack is handled here as an alias, not a separate…

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Footbag Freestyle

Footbag freestyle is a footbag discipline with kicks, stalls, links, circle elements and choreographed routines. World Footbag/IFPA sources describe freestyle as a complex competition pract…

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Footbag Net

Footbag net is a footbag discipline: players kick the footbag over a net without hands and win rallies through serve, placement, blocks and controlled contacts.

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FootGolf

FootGolf combines football technique with golf-course strategy: a football is kicked around a course into large cups in as few shots as possible. Clubs, golf balls and billiards rules are n…

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Footpool

Footpool, also called snookball or football pool, is a walk-on billiards/football hybrid. Players kick football-sized balls on an oversized pool table into pockets; play often follows 8-bal…

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Footvolley

Footvolley is a beach net game in which teams play the ball over the net without hand contact using feet, head, chest or body. The entry remains needsReview because governance varies region…

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Formula E

Formula E is the FIA world championship for electric formula race cars. Street-circuit line, energy and battery management, Attack Mode, qualifying/race format, safety-car windows and team…

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Formula One

Formula One is the FIA world championship for the highest formula category. Single-seater technology, aerodynamics, tyre windows, DRS/strategy, qualifying, pit stops, race control and teamw…

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Formula Racing

Formula racing is single-seater/open-wheel formula motorsport: drivers compete in rule-defined formula cars on circuits or street courses. The term groups formula categories such as F4, Reg…

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Fortnite Esports

Fortnite esports is organised competition in Epic Games' Fortnite, especially battle royale and Zero Build formats. Players or teams compete for placement, eliminations, and tournament poin…

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Four Square

Four square is a playground and recreation ball game played on four squares. Players strike or tap the ball between courts; errors lead to rotation or elimination under local house rules.

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Four-Ball

Four-ball is a golf competition format: two partners form a side, each plays their own ball, and the side's better score counts on each hole. The entry remains needsReview as a format-vs-sp…

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Fowling

Fowling is a football-bowling target game in which teams throw a football at opposing bowling pins. Fowling Warehouse/AFA rules and venue lane formats are documented; local house rules and…

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Foxhunting

Foxhunting is handled in the catalogue as a historic/regional mounted-hunting context with hounds, not as a normal beginner sport recommendation. Law, land access, animal welfare and local…

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Frame running

Frame running is a para-athletics discipline in which athletes run on track using a three-wheeled running frame. Starts, lane control, body position, speed and legal finish time decide; it…

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Free climbing

Free climbing describes climbing in which movement comes from holds and footholds on rock or wall; rope and protection are used for safety, not upward aid. It is more a climbing style than…

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Freebord

Freebord is a pavement-based board sport using centre wheels and edge wheels to create snowboard-like carving and sliding on pavement. Sources describe a steep learning curve, protective-ge…

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Freediving

Freediving is breath-hold diving. Breath control, relaxation, body position, equalization, clear safety procedures and the buddy system are central.

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Freerunning

Freerunning is a movement and trick-oriented style in the parkour context. Efficient or creative lines over obstacles, jumps, landings, body control and, in competitions, timed or judged fr…

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Freestyle Flying Disc

Freestyle flying disc is a creative disc sport: individuals, pairs or teams combine throws, catches, tips, body moves, jams and music into tricks or routines. Difficulty, Artistic Impressio…

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Freestyle football

Freestyle football is football-based ball artistry: athletes combine tricks, juggling, lower, upper, sitting and acrobatic elements into battles or routines. Difficulty, control, creativity…

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Freestyle Motocross

Freestyle motocross is a motorsport discipline with motocross motorcycle, ramps, jumps and tricks. Difficulty, execution, variety, flow, course use and safe landing are judged; entry belong…

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Freestyle skateboarding

Freestyle skateboarding is a trick and routine-oriented skateboard discipline on flat ground. Board control, footwork, spins, manuals, handstands or combos are central; competitions are eve…

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Freestyle Skiing

Freestyle skiing is a FIS ski context for disciplines such as moguls, aerials, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. Depending on format, time, turns, air, difficulty, amplitude, execution and…

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Freestyle slalom skating

Freestyle slalom skating is a World Skate inline freestyle discipline using inline skates and cones. Depending on format, precise footwork, rhythm, trick combinations, cone control or time…

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Freestyle Snowboarding

Freestyle snowboarding is snowboarding with park-and-pipe disciplines such as halfpipe, slopestyle and big air. Board control, trick difficulty, amplitude, style, execution and landing on s…

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Freestyle swimming

Freestyle swimming is the freestyle competition form in swimming; in practice, front crawl is almost always used. Body position, breathing, pull, kick, start, turns, touch and time scoring…

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Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is an Olympic mat wrestling style. Leg attacks, throws, takedowns, exposures, pins and technical points are central UWW rule actions.

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French Ring

French Ring is a demanding working-dog sport with obedience, jumps and protection/mordant programme. Participation requires suitable dogs, authorised clubs, licence/eligibility and experien…

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Frescobol

Frescobol is a Brazil-rooted beach paddle game in which partners cooperatively build long rallies with wooden/paddle rackets and a ball. National/association and international practice sour…

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Fricket

Fricket is an informal flying-disc target game with stakes/wickets and cups. Teams throw at the opposing cups or through the stakes; catching and scoring rules vary by house rules. Play use…

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Frontenis

Frontenis is a pelota discipline in which players use a racket and ball against a fronton wall. Rallies, serve, return, wall/court lines and points follow FIPV/event rules; it is neither a…

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Fuchsjagd

Fox hunting is a legally and culturally variable hunting, riding and animal-use context. The entry remains source-critical; details should not be read as a normal starter sport or a single…

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Fullbore target rifle

Fullbore target rifle is precision shooting with fullbore rifle on approved long-distance ranges. Shooters fire from defined positions at ring targets; ring value, wind reading, range safet…

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Functional Fitness

Functional fitness is described by iF3 as a competitive sport testing endurance, strength, bodyweight capacity, skill, mixed capacity and power. Scoring and movement standards follow the re…

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Futnet

Futnet is a UNIF-governed net ball sport, formerly often called football tennis or soccer tennis. Singles, doubles and triples use a low net, ball contacts without arms/hands, defined court…

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Futsal

Futsal is FIFA's indoor football form with five players per team, smaller hard court, smaller ball, rolling substitutions and its own foul, out-of-play and goalkeeper rules. Ball control, s…

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Fuzzball

Fuzzball is a regional street-game variant closely associated with St. Louis and related to baseball/corkball. It uses a tennis ball or modified ball, a slim bat and strongly local rules; d…

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Gaelic football

Gaelic football is an Irish Gaelic games team sport using a round ball, carrying, soloing, hand-passing, kicking and shots at H-shaped goals. Scores come from goals and balls over the bar;…

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Gaelic handball

Gaelic handball is an Irish wall-ball game in the GAA Handball context. Players strike a small ball with the hand against the front wall; formats such as 40x20, 60x30 or One Wall differ in…

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Gaga Ball

Gaga ball is a fast dodge-and-strike game in a marked circle or gaga pit. Everyone starts on the boundary, the ball is played with an open hand after the bounce, and hits below the knee usu…

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Garde and show dance

Garde and show dance is a dance sport organised in Germany through DVG/DTV with garde, march/polka and show-dance disciplines. Technique, synchronisation, expression, musicality, difficulty…

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Gateball

Gateball is a tactical team mallet sport. Two teams play numbered balls through three gates and to the goal pole; order, positioning, touches and team calls matter more than hitting power.

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Geocaching

Geocaching is a platform-guided outdoor search for hidden caches using coordinates, listings, hints or puzzles. It is usually not a classic competition sport; legal finding, signing, loggin…

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Giant Slalom

Giant slalom is an alpine ski racing discipline with wider gate sets, large carving turns and time scoring. Line, edge pressure, rhythm, course inspection and two clean runs are decisive.

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Gilli-danda

Gilli-danda is a traditional South Asian striking and fielding game using a short wooden peg, the gilli, and a longer stick, the danda. Rules, outs and scoring vary regionally; no single wo…

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gladiatorial sports

Gladiatorial sports describes ancient Roman arena fighting as a historical context of violence, spectacle and society. The entry is not a modern combat-sport recommendation and not a club o…

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