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Gliding

Gliding is unpowered air sport with sailplane, winch or aerotow launch, thermals, weather reading, navigation and task flying. Competitions use distance, time, goal or precision tasks under…

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Glima

Glima is an Icelandic folk-wrestling style with belt/grip logic, upright posture, balance, stepping and controlled throwing technique.

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Go

Go is an abstract board and mind sport played on a grid. Black and White alternately place stones to control territory and capture opposing stones without liberties; the winner has more ter…

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Goalball

Goalball is a mind sport in which strategy, calculation, and tactical decisions determine competition. At its core, the sport is about throw the bell ball past the opposing team into the go…

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Golf

players use a club to hit balls into a series of holes on a course, using the fewest number of strokes. At its core, the sport is about play the ball from tee to hole in as few strokes as p…

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Golf Croquet

Golf croquet is a croquet code played on lawn. Both sides contest the same next hoop; the first side to play a ball legally through that hoop wins the hoop point. Mallet control, position,…

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Gorodki

Gorodki is a throwing target game in which wooden figures are knocked out of a marked square, the town, using bats. The aim is to clear figure sets in as few throws as possible; the sport b…

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Grand Prix racing

Grand Prix racing describes a historical and series-dependent motorsport context for major automobile races, today especially in formula/F1 settings. The entry is deliberately marked broad:…

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Grass Skiing

Grass skiing is a FIS ski discipline on prepared grass slopes using grass skis rather than snow skis. Slalom, giant slalom and other course formats are raced through gates, line, time and c…

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Gravel cycling

Gravel cycling is cycling on mixed, mainly unsurfaced roads, gravel roads and connecting roads. Tyre choice, line, pacing, nutrition and bike handling are central; the UCI gravel context di…

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Greco-Roman wrestling

Greco-Roman wrestling is an Olympic mat wrestling style in which actions below the waist are not actively used. The focus is upper body, clinch, throws, exposures, pins and UWW point scorin…

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Greyhound Racing

Greyhound racing is sighthound racing on specialist tracks with starting boxes, lure, race cards and regulated racing. Because of welfare, legal and aftercare questions, it is not framed as…

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Gridiron football

Gridiron football is the umbrella term for football codes with downs, field position, end zones and plays, especially American and Canadian football. This entry is intentionally not a dupli…

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Grip Sport

Grip sport is a grip-strength competition area with events such as thick-bar, pinch, gripper or timed-hold disciplines. Available sources show a fragmented but rule- and record-based compet…

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GT Racing

GT racing is circuit motorsport with grand touring/GT3 sports cars, teams, driver categories, Balance of Performance, pit stops and sprint or endurance formats. Racecraft, consistency, traf…

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Guts

Guts is a WFDF flying-disc discipline. Two teams of five players face each other on parallel goal lines; points are scored when a correctly thrown disc is not caught.

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Gym Training

Gym training covers strength, cardio, mobility and machine/free-weight training in a gym. It is modelled as a general training environment, not as one sport with a uniform rulebook.

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Gymkhana

Gymkhana is a horse-rider event with short, often playful timed and skill patterns such as barrel race, pole bending, keyhole or flag race. This is the equestrian variant with riding arena,…

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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is used here as the umbrella context for FIG/World Gymnastics disciplines and broad participation gymnastics. Depending on discipline, apparatus, group performance, acrobatics, r…

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Gymnastics for All

Gymnastics for all treats gymnastics as a participation, group and display format. Shared movement, fitness, creativity, music and performances are central; it is not one artistic-gymnastic…

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Gymnastik / movement gymnastics

Gymnastik is used here for a German-language movement, participation and sometimes competition context using coordination, mobility, posture, music and optional apparatus. Details depend on…

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Half-Pipe Skiing

Ski halfpipe is a freeski/freestyle skiing discipline in the halfpipe. Skiers connect wall-to-wall flow, amplitude, rotations, grabs, difficulty, execution and clean landings into judged ru…

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Hammer throw

Hammer throw is a World Athletics throwing event. A metal ball attached to wire and grip is thrown from a circle and protective cage into a marked sector; the longest valid distance counts.

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Hammerschlagen

Hammerschlagen is a turn-based precision game in which players drive a nail into wood with controlled hammer strikes. Safe stance, strike control, house rules and game supervision matter in…

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Hand Balancing

Hand balancing is an acrobatics and circus discipline built around balance on the hands, shoulder line, hand pressure, core tension and safe exits. It is more a training and performance dis…

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Handball

Handball is a fast indoor team game with seven players per side, a 40 x 20 metre court, goal area and throwing finishes. Teams pass, dribble and shoot to score more goals; step, time, conta…

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Hang Gliding

Hang gliding is unpowered air sport with a hang glider. Pilots foot-launch or use suitable launch sites, steer by weight shift and use weather, thermals, terrain and landing planning for sa…

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Hapkido

Hapkido is a Korean martial art with a self-defence focus. Typical elements include circular movement, kicks, strikes, locks, throws, pressure points, breakfalls and controlled partner work…

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Hardball squash

Hardball squash is a regionally North American squash context, today especially in doubles. It uses a harder ball and suitable court/doubles rules; the context differs from internationally…

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Hare Coursing

Hare coursing is a highly contested animal/hunting context involving greyhounds and hares. Irish sources document ICC rules and state licensing/legal oversight; scientific and legislative s…

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Harness Racing

Harness racing is horse racing with Standardbreds that trot or pace while pulling a sulky and driver. Gait, starting car, position, race card and holding the legal gait are central.

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Hashing

Hashing is a social running game rather than classic timed racing: hares lay or mark a trail, and the pack finds the correct route through trail marks, checks, false trails and On-On calls.…

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Hatha Yoga

Hatha yoga is a broad yoga style or umbrella term for physical yoga practice with postures, breath and concentration. It is modelled as mind-body training, not as competitive sport.

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Haute Ecole

Haute ecole refers to advanced classical horsemanship with very subtle aids, collection and demanding movements up to school airs in traditional academies. This entry is not a normal FEI/Ol…

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Headis

Headis is a header game on a table-tennis table. Two players play a special rubber ball over the net using only the head; sets are played to 11 points under official Headis rules.

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Heptathlon

Heptathlon is a World Athletics combined event of seven disciplines over two days: 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, long jump, javelin and 800m. The total result is calculated throu…

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High Diving

High diving is an aquatics discipline involving jumps from very great height, typically 20 m for women and 27 m for men in World Aquatics contexts. Take-off, rotation, body tension, feet-fi…

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High jump

High jump is a World Athletics jumping event. Athletes clear a bar onto a landing mat; the highest valid cleared height decides.

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High Power Rifle

High Power Rifle is a primarily US rifle precision sport under NRA/CMP rule contexts. It is fired on approved rifle ranges in specified positions, distances and timed strings; firearms law…

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Highland Dancing

Highland dancing is a Scottish, technically precise competition dance with solo dances, traditional steps, jumping power, turnout, timing and presentation. The RSOBHD structure organises cl…

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Highland Games

Highland Games are Scottish traditional events with heavy events such as caber toss, stone put, Scottish hammer and weight for distance or height. The sporting core is distance, height, con…

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Hillclimb Racing

Hill climb is automobile motorsport on closed uphill road courses where cars start individually against the clock. FIA hill-climb pages and regulations document the championship, technical…

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Hip-Hop Dance

Hip-hop dance is an urban dance and competition style built around groove, musicality, isolations, freestyle elements, crew synchronisation and stage presence. HHI formats and other dance c…

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Historical European Martial Arts

Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) reconstructs European fencing and martial arts from historical sources and trains them today with modern safety rules, protective gear, drills and sp…

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Hitball

Hitball is a regionally organised indoor ball game in which teams strike the ball with their hands into opposing target zones. Walls and ceiling may be part of play; source coverage remains…

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Hobby horsing

Hobby horsing is a movement and competition format with a hobbyhorse in which jumping courses, dressage or show tasks are physically performed. It is not classic apparatus gymnastics and no…

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Hockey

Here, hockey is an umbrella term for related stick-and-goal games. Field hockey, indoor hockey, ice hockey, floorball and other variants have their own rules, surfaces and equipment; this e…

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Hooverball

Hooverball is a historic medicine-ball net game associated with Herbert Hoover. Teams throw and catch a heavy medicine ball over a net; source coverage is event-adjacent and kept source-cri…

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Horizontal bar

Horizontal bar is the high bar apparatus in men's artistic gymnastics. A routine combines swing, grip changes, release skills, re-catches and dismount and is scored under the FIG code.

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Hornussen

Hornussen is a traditional Swiss team sport. The batting side drives the Nouss from the Bock into the Ries; the defending side tries to stop it with shingles before it touches the ground.

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Horse Pulling

Horse pulling is a regional draft-horse competition in which one or more draft horses pull a load or sled over a short distance. Teamster control, harness, weight classes, arena rules, rest…

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Horse Racing

Horse racing is equestrian sport in which horses with rider, driver or team compete on a racecourse for finish order, time and placing. Race type, distance, start and scoring rules depend o…

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Horse riding

Horse riding is the practical foundation context of equestrian sport: human and horse learn balance, seat, aids, safety and responsible horse handling under instruction. It is not one separ…

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Horse Soccer

Horse soccer, also called equine soccer or hoofball, is a club-level horse-rider game with a large inflatable ball and goals. It is not FIFA football and not an eleven-a-side football code;…

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Horseback Archery

Horseback archery, also called mounted archery, combines riding and archery on a course with targets. Hits, time, track control and horse welfare/safety rules belong together.

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Horseball

Horseball is a mounted team sport in which four players per team on the pitch pick up, pass and shoot a handled ball into a high hoop. Typical elements include passing requirements, a time…

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Horseboarding

Horseboarding is a very specialised equestrian and board sport where horse, rider and boarder work as a team through a timed gate/obstacle course. Entry belongs in organised Horseboarding U…

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Horsemanship

This entry treats horsemanship as a western horsemanship/equitation pattern class: riders perform prescribed manoeuvres at walk, jog or lope, often followed by railwork. Judging focuses on…

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Horseshoe Pitching

Horseshoe pitching is a target throwing game for two or four players. Players throw pitching horseshoes at a stake; points come from ringers or shoes closer to the stake than the opponent's.

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Hot Yoga

Hot yoga denotes yoga practice in heated studios; Bikram yoga is one specific form. Because of heat and dehydration risks, hydration, breaks and medical caution are important.

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