Winter sport

Ski resort Jasná in Central Slovakia

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: the Olympic rings next to a sport indicates that this particular sport is included in the Winter Olympic Games, as of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The Paralympic logo indicates the same for a sport not in the Olympics but in the Winter Paralympic Games.

Ice skating

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

Skiing

Skiing

United States biathlete Jeremy Teela at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

• 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

An East German bobsleigh in 1951, Oberhof track, Germany

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

• Bobsled
• Dogsled racing
• Ice blocking
• Luge
• Skeleton
• Wok racing

Snowboarding

• Alpine snowboarding
• Boardercross
• Slalom
• Snowskating
• Slopestyle

Snowmobiling

A snowmobile tour at Yellowstone National Park.

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

Team sports

The Soviet Union hosted many Bandy World Championships.

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Curling
• Ice hockey
• Ice stock sport
• Ringette
• Rink bandy
• Sledge hockey
• Snowball fight - (last one standing)
• Snowman building - highest one
• Snow rugby
• Snow snake
• Synchronized skating

Recreational sports

Snowman

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

• Building snowmen
• Building snow fortresses or digging snow caves
• Ice boating or sailing
• Ice fishing
• Ice swimming
• Shinny
• Snowball fight
• Tobogganing
• Snowshoeing

Notable winter sporting events

A postage stamp issued by East Germany in 1968 in commemoration of their first Winter Olympics as an independent country

• Winter Olympic Games
• Nordic Games
• World Cup
• Arctic Winter Games
• Asian Winter Games
• Winter Paralympic Games
• Winter Universiade
• Winter Dew Tour
• Winter X Games
• Winter X Games Europe

See also

• Winter carnival
• Outline of sports
• Outdoor activity

References

• 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. 

External links

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