Sport Wiki
A growing encyclopedia of sports and games from around the world — Olympic and Paralympic disciplines, regional traditions, and emerging competitive formats. Each entry covers origin, rules and current status.
Canoe Sprint
A flat-water racing discipline in which athletes paddle kayaks and canoes over straight sprint courses, relying on power, technique and endurance.
Breaking
A highly athletic style of street dance built around dynamic footwork, freezes, power moves and acrobatic floorwork.
Taekwondo
A Korean martial art and Olympic combat sport characterized by fast, high kicks, dynamic footwork and full-contact sparring.
Padel
A racket sport played in doubles on an enclosed court roughly a third the size of a tennis court, where the surrounding walls stay in play.
Teqball
A football-based sport played on a curved table, in which players use only their feet, thighs, chest and head to return the ball.
Slap Fighting
A combat sport in which two competitors take turns striking each other across the face with an open hand, with no blocking allowed.
Cheese Rolling
An English folk tradition in which competitors chase a round wheel of cheese down a dangerously steep hill.
Para Canoe
The Paralympic adaptation of sprint canoeing, in which athletes with physical impairments race kayaks or va’a over sprint distances.
Goalball
A team sport created specifically for athletes with visual impairments, who use hearing and touch rather than sight to defend their goal.
Sepak Takraw
A team sport in which players use their feet, knees, chest and head — never their hands — to send a woven ball over a net.
Koʻpkari (Buzkashi)
A mounted team game played across Central Asia, in which riders compete to seize a heavy object from the ground and carry it to a goal.
Kurash
A traditional form of upright jacket wrestling that originated in the territory of modern Uzbekistan, now part of the Asian Games programme.