Winter sport
A winter sport is a sport which is played in winter.[1] Most such sports are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally such sports were only played in cold areas during winter, but artificial snow and ice allow more flexibility. Common individual sports include cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, speed skating, figure skating, luge, skeleton, bobsleigh and snowmobiling. Common team sports include ice hockey, curling and bandy. Winter sports often have their own multi-sport tournaments, such as the Winter Olympic Games.
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 *
- Kite skiing
- Mogul skiing*
- Monoskiing
- Newschool skiing
- Nordic combined *
- Ski archery
- Skiboarding
- Skibob
- Skijoring
- Ski jumping *
- Snowkiting
- Speed skiing
- Speed riding
- Telemark skiing
Sledding
Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something:
- Airboard
- Bobsled *
- Dogsled racing
- Ice blocking
- Luge *
- Skeleton *
- Slebogganing
- Wok racing
Snowboarding
Snowmobiling
- Free style
- Snow-cross
- Recreation
- Cross-country
- Hill climbing
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
- Snow rugby
- Snow snake
- Synchronized skating
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
- Snowshoeing
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
- ↑ "winter sports, noun". Chambers 21st Century Dictionary. Retrieved Feb 22, 2010.
- Syers, Edgar; Syers, Madge (eds.) (1908) The Book of Winter Sports London: Edward Arnold OCLC 4531800
- Dier, J. C. (ed.) (1912) The Book of Winter Sports, an attempt to catch the spirit of the keen joys of the winter season The Macmillan Company
- Jessup, Elon Huntington (1923) Snow and ice sports: a winter manual E. P. Dutton & company
- Cereghini (1955) Five Thousand Years of Winter Sports Edizioni del Milione
- Liebers, Arthur (1971) The Complete Book of Winter Sports NY: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
- "Winter Sports: Sport guides". BBC Online. 2010-02-20. Retrieved Feb 22, 2010.
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