List of Sports – B
Here's a list of every sport starting with the letter B:
- Backstroke – A swimming style performed on the back, using alternating arm movements and flutter kicks.
- Badminton – Racket sport played with shuttlecocks over a net.
- Ba game – A traditional Scottish ball game played between large teams through the streets of a town.
- Bagatelle – A tabletop cue sport that involves shooting balls into scoring holes or areas using a cue stick.
- Balance Beam – A gymnastics event performed on a narrow beam, requiring balance, poise, and acrobatics.
- Balkline – A cue sport that involves keeping the cue ball within specific lines on the billiard table during play.
- Ball badminton – A racquet sport similar to badminton, played with a wool ball instead of a shuttlecock.
- Ball hockey – A version of ice hockey played on foot with a ball instead of a puck.
- Ballet – Dance form characterized by grace and precision.
- Ballooning – Aerial sport involving flight in a hot air balloon, often in competitions for distance or accuracy.
- Bando – A Welsh team sport similar to field hockey, played with curved sticks and a small ball.
- Bandy – A winter team sport similar to ice hockey, played with a ball on a large ice field.
- Banger racing – Motorsport where drivers race old, often damaged cars around a track, sometimes involving collisions.
- Banzai skydiving – An extreme sport where a skydiver throws the parachute away before jumping and then catches it mid-air.
- Barefoot Skiing – Water skiing without skis, using bare feet.
- Barrel Racing – Rodeo event where horse and rider race around barrels.
- Baseball – Bat-and-ball game played between two teams.
- BASE jumping – Extreme sport involving parachuting or wingsuit flying from fixed structures like buildings, antennas, or cliffs.
- Basketball – Team sport played with a ball and hoop.
- Basque Pelota – A traditional ball game from the Basque region, played by hitting a ball against a wall using a hand, racket, or basket.
- Baton Twirling – Artistic sport involving twirling and manipulating batons.
- Beach Basketball – Basketball played on sand courts near the coast.
- Beach Cricket – Cricket played on sandy beaches.
- Beach Flags – Sprinting and flag-grabbing competition on the beach.
- Beach Golf – Golf played on sandy coastal terrain.
- Beach Handball – Handball played on sand courts near the beach.
- Beach Netball – Variation of netball played on sandy beaches.
- Beach Polo – Polo played on sand with sideboards to keep the ball in play, offering a more casual coastal variation.
- Beach Rugby – Rugby played on sand or shallow water.
- Beach Sambo – Sambo wrestling competition held on sandy beaches.
- Beach Soccer – Soccer variant played on sand, typically on a smaller field.
- Beach Tennis – Tennis played on sandy courts near the beach.
- Beach Ultimate – Ultimate Frisbee played on sandy beaches.
- Beach Volleyball – Variant of volleyball played on sand courts.
- Beach Woodball – Woodball played on sandy coastal terrain.
- Beach Wrestling – Wrestling matches conducted on sandy beaches.
- Benchpress – Strength exercise or competition involving pressing a weighted barbell from the chest while lying on a bench.
- Biathle – run and swim in a continuous sequence (derived from modern pentathlon training events). It is usually over a shorter distance than the similar Aquathlon.
- Biathlon – Winter sport combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
- Biathlon Orienteering – a combination of the navigation sport of orienteering with rifle shooting.
- Bicycle Polo – Sport similar to traditional polo but played on bicycles.
- Bicycle Motocross or BMX – Off-road cycling sport involving jumps, stunts, and racing on dirt tracks.
- Billiards – Cue sport played on a table with balls and sticks.
- Boating – Sport involving the use of boats or other watercraft.
- Bobsleigh – Ice track racing in a gravity-powered sled.
- Bocce – Italian ball sport similar to lawn bowling.
- Boccia – Precision ball sport similar to bocce, designed for athletes with physical disabilities.
- Boules – Throwing metal or wooden balls as close to target as possible.
- Bodyboarding – Water sport riding waves on a bodyboard.
- Bodybuilding – Athletic discipline to develop and showcase muscular physique.
- Bossaball – Team sport combining volleyball, soccer, and gymnastics, played on an inflatable court with trampolines.
- Bouldering – Climbing activity on small rock formations or artificial walls.
- Bowling (Tenpin) – Indoor sport involving rolling a ball towards pins.
- Bowls (Lawn) – Precision ball sport played on manicured grass courts.
- Boxing – Combat sport involving punching and defense techniques.
- Box lacrosse – Indoor version of lacrosse played in an enclosed area with smaller goals and teams.
- Brännboll – A Scandinavian bat-and-ball game similar to baseball or rounders.
- Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu – Martial art and combat sport emphasizing ground fighting.
- Bridge – Card game involving strategy and tactics.
- Broomball – Ice sport similar to hockey, played with brooms and a ball instead of sticks and a puck.
- Bull Riding – Rodeo event where riders attempt to stay on a bucking bull.
- Bullfighting – Traditional spectacle involving the performance of a bullfighter.
- Bungee Jumping – Extreme sport involving jumping from a height with a bungee cord.
- Butterfly stroke – A swimming style performed face-down using a simultaneous arm movement and dolphin kick.
- Buzkashi – Central Asian horseback sport where players compete to move a goat or calf carcass into a goal area.
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