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Outline of sports

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sports:

What is a sport?

Sports can be described as all of the following:

  • Entertainment – Any sport that includes spectators, either free or paid admission, with no pre-scripted plot of the outcome. The athletics might also get entertained by complete sports objective.
  • Exercise – some sports are physical exercise while others are mental exercise.

Types of sports

List of sports

Sport by region

Africa

West Africa
: Benin • Burkina Faso • Cape Verde • Côte d'Ivoire • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea • Guinea-Bissau • Liberia • Mali • Mauritania • Niger • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Togo
North Africa
: Algeria • Egypt • Libya • Mauritania • Morocco • Sudan • Tunisia • Western Sahara
Central Africa
: Angola • Burundi • Cameroon • Central African Republic • Chad • The Democratic Republic of the Congo • Equatorial Guinea • Gabon • Republic of the Congo • Rwanda • São Tomé and Príncipe
East Africa
: Burundi • Comoros • Djibouti • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Kenya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mauritius • Mozambique • Rwanda • Seychelles • Somalia • Tanzania • Uganda • Zambia • Zimbabwe
Southern Africa
: Botswana • Eswatini • Lesotho • Namibia • South Africa
Dependencies
: Mayotte&nbsp;<small>(France)</small> • St.&nbsp;Helena&nbsp;<small>(UK)</small> • Puntland • Somaliland • Sahrawi&nbsp;Arab&nbsp;Democratic&nbsp;Republic

Antarctica

Asia

Central Asia
: Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan
East Asia
: China
:: Tibet
:: Hong Kong • Macau
: Japan • North Korea • South Korea • Mongolia • Taiwan
North Asia
: Russia
Southeast Asia
: Brunei • Burma (Myanmar) • Cambodia • East Timor (Timor-Leste) • Indonesia • Laos • Malaysia • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand • Vietnam
South Asia
: Afghanistan • Bangladesh • Bhutan• Iran • Maldives • Nepal • Pakistan • Sri Lanka
India
:Andhra Pradesh • Bihar • Delhi • Gujarat • Jammu and Kashmir • KarnatakaKerala • Madhya Pradesh • Maharashtra • Manipur • Mizoram • Odisha • Punjab • Tamil Nadu • West Bengal
West Asia
: Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Cyprus (including disputed Northern Cyprus) • Georgia • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Kuwait • Lebanon • Oman • Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen

Caucasus (a region considered to be in both Asia and Europe, or between them)

North Caucasus
: Parts of Russia (Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Adyghea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai)
South Caucasus
: Georgia (including disputed Abkhazia, South Ossetia) • Armenia • Azerbaijan (including disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic)

Europe

Akrotiri and Dhekelia • Åland • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Estonia • Faroe Islands • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Gibraltar • Greece • Guernsey • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Isle of Man • Italy • Jersey • Kazakhstan • Kosovo • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • Moldova (including disputed Transnistria) • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Spain • Svalbard • Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine
United Kingdom
: England (Birmingham, Bristol, Cornwall, London, Milton Keynes, Sussex, Worthing) • Northern Ireland (Belfast) • Scotland (Glasgow) • Wales (Cardiff)
Vatican City
European Union

North America

Canada
Greenland • Mexico • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
United States
: Alabama&nbsp;• Alaska&nbsp;• Arizona&nbsp;• Arkansas&nbsp;• California&nbsp;• Colorado&nbsp;• Connecticut&nbsp;• Delaware&nbsp;• Florida&nbsp;• Georgia&nbsp;• Hawaii&nbsp;• Idaho&nbsp;• Illinois&nbsp;• Indiana&nbsp;• Iowa&nbsp;• Montana&nbsp;• Kansas&nbsp;• Kentucky&nbsp;• Louisiana&nbsp;• Maine&nbsp;• Maryland&nbsp;• Massachusetts&nbsp;• Michigan&nbsp;• Minnesota&nbsp;• Mississippi&nbsp;• Missouri&nbsp;• Nebraska&nbsp;• Nevada&nbsp;• New Hampshire&nbsp;• New Jersey&nbsp;• New Mexico&nbsp;• New York&nbsp;• North Carolina&nbsp;• North Dakota&nbsp;• Ohio&nbsp;• Oklahoma&nbsp;• Oregon&nbsp;• Pennsylvania&nbsp;• Rhode Island&nbsp;• South Carolina&nbsp;• South Dakota&nbsp;• Tennessee&nbsp;• Texas&nbsp;• Utah&nbsp;• Vermont&nbsp;• Virginia&nbsp;• Washington&nbsp;• West Virginia&nbsp;• Wisconsin&nbsp;• Wyoming
: District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.)
Central America
: Belize • Costa Rica • El Salvador • Guatemala • Honduras • Nicaragua • Panama
Caribbean
: Anguilla • Antigua and Barbuda • Aruba • Bahamas • Barbados • Bermuda • British Virgin Islands • Cayman Islands • Cuba • Dominica • Dominican Republic • Grenada • Haiti • Jamaica • Montserrat • Netherlands Antilles • Puerto Rico • Saint Barthélemy • Saint Kitts and Nevis • Saint Lucia • Saint Martin • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • Turks and Caicos Islands • United States Virgin Islands
Oceania (includes the continent of Australia)
Australasia
: Australia
: ATC • New South Wales • (Sydney) • Northern Territory • Queensland (Brisbane) • South Australia • Tasmania • Victoria • Western Australia
::Dependencies/Territories of Australia
::: Christmas Island • Cocos (Keeling) Islands • Norfolk Island
: New Zealand
Melanesia
:Fiji • Indonesia (Oceanian part only) • New Caledonia (France) • Papua New Guinea • Solomon Islands • Vanuatu •
Micronesia
: Federated States of Micronesia • Guam (US) • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Nauru • Northern Mariana Islands (USA) • Palau • Wake Island (USA) •
Polynesia
: American Samoa (USA) • Chatham Islands (NZ) • Cook Islands (NZ) • Easter Island (Chile) • French Polynesia (France) • Hawaii (USA) • Loyalty Islands (France) • Niue (NZ) • Pitcairn Islands (UK) • Adamstown • Samoa • Tokelau (NZ) • Tonga • Tuvalu • Wallis and Futuna (France)

South America

Argentina • Bolivia • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Ecuador • Falkland Islands • Guyana • Paraguay • Peru • Suriname • Uruguay • Venezuela

South Atlantic

Ascension Island • Saint Helena • Tristan da Cunha

History of sports

Recreational sporting

Regulation

Rulebooks

Officiating technology

Venues

Pitches

Venue features

Equipment

Comparison of sports

Governing bodies

World governing bodies of various notable sports:

Glosaries

Sports in court

General
American football
Association football
Baseball
Basketball
Other sports

Sports medicine

Sports and media

Sports magazines

Sports television programs

Sports ethics and conduct

Sports participants

Game play

Sport techniques

Sports management

Sports culture

Sports and politics

Sporting events

Sociology of sport

The sociology of sport is a subfield of sociology which aims to study sports through the lens of interactions between different groups and cultures. The field has also investigated how various gender divides in sports can influence feminist movements.

Sport psychology

Sport psychology is the study of how psychological factors can impact engagement in professional and recreational sports, as well as how sports impact an athlete's psychological state. After becoming popular in the early 20th century, it is now a recognized scientific field which is relevant to many different sports. Modern sports psychologists often use a combination of goal setting, visualization techniques and preperformance routines to help athletes achieve their goals.

See also

Sports-related outlines

References

External links