Winter sport

A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice;^[1] informally, it can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round, such as basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events, such as luge, skeleton and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. Other common winter sports include skiboarding, monoskiing, skwal and snowmobiling.

Contents 1 List of winter sports 1.1 Ice skating 1.2 Skiing 1.3 Sledding 1.4 Snowboarding 1.5 Snowmobiling 1.6 Recreational sports 1.7 Team sports 2 Notable winter sport resort regions 3 Notable winter sporting events 4 See also 5 References

List of winter sports

Note: an asterisk indicates that a particular sport is included in the Winter Olympic Games, as of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Ice skating

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating

Skiing

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross-country skiing *
• Freestyle skiing *
• Mogul skiing*
• Newschool skiing
• Nordic combined *
• Ski archery
• Skiboarding
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowshoe
• Speed skiing
• Telemark skiing

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something:

• Airboard
• Bobsled *
• Dogsled racing
• Ice Blocking
• Luge *
• Skeleton *
• Wok racing

Snowboarding

• Alpine snowboarding *
• Boardercross *
• Freestyle snowboarding *
• Slalom *

Snowmobiling

• Free style
• Snow-cross
• Recreation
• Cross-country
• Hill climbing

Recreational sports

Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children:

• Building snowmen
• Ice boating or sailing
• Ice fishing
• Ice swimming
• Shinny
• Snowball fight
• Tobogganing

Team sports

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Curling *
• Ice hockey *
• Ice stock sport
• Ringette
• Sledge hockey - (winter Paralympic sport)
• Snowball fight - (last one standing)
• Snowman building - highest one

Notable winter sport resort regions

• Alps
• Andes
• Appalachian Mountains
• Balkan Mountains
• Carpathian Mountains
• Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten mountains
• Lapland
• Rocky Mountains
• Snowy Mountains
• Swiss Alps
• Whistler

Notable winter sporting events

• Winter Olympic Games
• Asian Winter Games
• Winter Paralympic Games
• Winter Universiade
• Winter Dew Tour
• Winter X Games

See also

• Outline of sports
• Outdoor activity

References

1. ↑ "winter sports, noun". Chambers 21st Century Dictionary. http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=winter+sports&title=21st. Retrieved Feb 22, 2010. 

• "Winter Sports: Sport guides". BBC Online. 2010-02-20. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/sport_guides/default.stm. Retrieved Feb 22, 2010.