List of basic sports topics
- Cue sports: snooker, pool, carom billiards and others)
- Sliding-disk-based: carrom, novuss and related; shuffleboard and table shuffleboard; curling; air hockey (see also curling)
- Golf family: golf, miniature golf, pitch and putt, croquet, disc golf
- Lane bowling: ten-pin bowling, skittles, Candlepin bowling, five-pin bowling, duckpin bowling
- Lawn bowling: bowls, bocce, boules, pétanque
- Tossing: horseshoes, quoits, lawn darts and bean bag toss (cornhole);
- Pinball-family: pinball, pachinko and related
- In-table miniaturizations of outdoor sports: table tennis (ping-pong), foosball (see also air hockey)
- See also Field (team) section for usually group field sports; and see also Strategy section for board and card games; and see "Miscellaneous achievement" section for strength-based ball and disc-throwing games.
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History of sports
- Main article: History of sports
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Basic sports concepts
- Athlete - Coach - Disabled sports - Extreme Sports - Fan (aficionado) - Fantasy sports - Female sport - Gamesmanship - Multi-sport events - Nationalism and sport - Olympic Games - Performance art - professionalism - Professional sports - Regulation of sport - Spectator sport - Sponsorship - Sporting club - Sport Record - Sports coaching - Sports equipment - Sports injuries - Sportsmanship - Sports marketing - Sports memorabilia - Sportsmen - Sports timeline - Sportswear - Student athlete - Violence in sports - Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing
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Sports scholars
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Leaders in sports
MVP Captain Co-Captain Coach
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Sport in popular culture
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Sports-related lists
- List of sports
- Lists of sportspeople
- List of sports attendance figures
- List of professional sports leagues
- Timeline of sports
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Sporting governing bodies
- Main article: Sport governing bodies
Governing bodies of the most popular world sports [1]:
- International Olympic Committee
- FIFA (football's world governing body)
- International Cricket Council
- The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (Golf in Europe)
- United States Golf Association (Golf in US)
- Royal Canadian Golf Association (Golf in Canada)
- FIBA (Basketball)
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References
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See also
- Combat Sport
- Disabled sports
- Fandom
- Female sports
- History of sport
- Multi-sport events
- National sport
- Nationalism and sports
- Olympic Games
- Spectator sports
- Sponsorship
- Sport in film
- Sport governing bodies
- Sports broadcasting
- Sports club
- Sports coaching
- Sports equipment
- Sports injuries
- Sports league attendances
- Sports marketing
- Sports terms named after people
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