Winter sport
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A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice, but informally can refer to sports played in winter that could be played at any time of the year. The main winter sports are Hockey and Figure skating, sledding events such as Luge, Skeleton, and Bobsleighing, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. Other common winter sports include snow-blading, monoskiing, skwal and tobogganing.
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[edit] Ice skating
See also team sports.
[edit] Skiing
Sports in which skis are used on snow.
- Alpine skiing *
- Biathlon *
- Cross country skiing *
- Firngleiten
- Freestyle skiing *
- Nordic combined *
- Ski archery
- Skiboarding
- Skibob
- Skijoring
- Ski jumping *
- Snowboarding *
- Snowshoe
- Speed skiing
- Telemark skiing
[edit] Sledding
Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.
[edit] Team sports
Sports that involve teams, played on ice.
- Bandy
- Curling *
- Ice hockey *
- Ice stock sport
- Ringette
- Shinty
- Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
* denotes a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.
[edit] Recreational sports
Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.
- Ice boating or Ice sailing
- Tobogganing
- Snowball fight
- Building snowmen
- Building snow castles and other snow constructions - The SnowCastle of Kemi is the largest one in the world
- Shinny
- Ice swimming
- Ice fishing
- Smashing Snowmen
- Snow wrestling
[edit] Famous Winter sport resort regions
- Rocky Mountains
- Alps
- Snowy Mountains
- Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten
- Lapland
- Stowe, Vermont
- Borovets, Bulgaria
