Categories by sport - Topics

How traditional and indigenous sports are filed next to modern ones Where hybrid sports belong when they borrow from two families Why is the ball sport family the largest branch in any sports taxonomy? How does racquet sport absorb a game played with a shuttle instead of a ball? The overlap between team sports and ball sports in most category trees Where is the line between outdoor sport and adventure sport? Where do ball sports draw the line on projectiles that are not round? How sports get grouped into categories across encyclopedias and databases Why lists of combat sports disagree over which disciplines count How a sport gets renamed once its official name changes Why some sports end up filed under two categories at once Where a sport that is also a martial art belongs Why disability sport categories follow a different logic How to file sports that are both Olympic and non-Olympic Why the same sport appears under different names in different countries Does everything done on water count as a water sport? Why water sports and aquatic sports are not the same category How national governing bodies categorise the sports they oversee