List of Sports – I

Here's a list of every sport starting with the letter I:

• Ice Canoeing – A team sport in which a five-member crew completes a course, in which riders have to push their canoe on the frozen parts of the river as well as row in the water.
• Ice Climbing – Athletes climb vertical ice formations with the use of ropes and other protective gear.
• Ice Cross Downhill – An extreme winter racing sport that involves direct racing of multiple skaters on a downhill course.
• Ice Dancing – One of the events in figure skating, which has its roots in ballroom dancing.
• Ice Hockey – A contact sport that is played on ice while wearing skates and using a stick to hit a puck into a goal.
• Ice Racing – Racing of motorized vehicles on predominantly natural ice surfaces like frozen lakes or rivers.
• Ice Sledge Racing – A winter Paralympic sport in which contestants use a lightweight sledge and propel themselves using two poles.
• Ice Skating – A range of sports that involve traveling on ice using metal blades attached to shoes, such as ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating.
• Ice Speedway – Similar to motorcycle speedway racing, though using a motorbike developed specifically for racing on ice; the bikes race anti-clockwise around oval tracks between 260 and 425 metres in length.
• Ice Stock Sport – A winter sport similar to curling, in which ice-stocks are slid across the ice to a target area (also called Bavarian Curling).
• Ice Swimming – Regular swimming events but held in extremely cold water.
• Ice Track Cycling – Racing a modified bicycle around a 400 m frozen track.
• Ice Yachting – Sail boats called ice yachts are used to race on frozen lakes and rivers.
• Iaidō – A Japanese martial art focused on the smooth, controlled drawing and sheathing of a sword, done in formal sequences.
• Iaijutsu – A traditional Japanese sword-art emphasizing rapid draw and cut, practiced in kata form.
• Icosathlon – A double decathlon consisting of 20 events, including the 10 traditional decathlon events plus 10 additional track & field events.
• Immersion Finswimming – A variant of finswimming where the athlete swims fully immersed underwater using fins and breathing apparatus over set distances.
• Inbuan – A form of wrestling native to the people of Mizoram in India in which the aim is to lift the opponent’s legs off the ground.
• Individual Medley – A swimming event in which an individual uses all four strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle) in one race.
• Indiaca – A fast-paced sport similar to volleyball, where players use their hands to hit a feathered ball over a net, typically played in singles or teams.
• Indoor Cricket – A modified version of cricket played indoors with nets for walls.
• Indoor Drone Racing – A high-speed competition where pilots navigate drones through obstacle courses inside indoor arenas using FPV (first-person view) goggles.
• Indoor Enduro – An indoor version of enduro motorcycle racing, held in confined arenas or halls instead of open terrain.
• Indoor Field Hockey – An indoor team sport that was derived from field hockey.
• Indoor Football – An indoor version of association football, often with smaller teams and side-walls keeping the ball in play.
• Indoor Heptathlon (Men) – A seven-event indoor athletics contest including sprints, hurdles, jumps and throws.
• Indoor Netball – A variation of netball, played indoors with netting all around the court.
• Indoor Rowing – Competitions performed on a rowing machine (ergometer) that simulates the on-water action.
• Indoor Short Track – A speed skating discipline held on a small indoor ice-track, where athletes race head-to-head in multiple laps.
• Indoor Soccer – An indoor version of association football developed in North America with side walls keeping the ball in play.
• Indoor Triathlon – A multi-discipline event combining pool swimming, stationary cycling and treadmill running, all indoors.
• Indoor Trial – A motorcycle trial sport held indoors (in arenas) where riders skip across obstacles rather than hop over them outdoors.
• Indoor Volleyball – The classic volleyball game played indoors on a court, with two teams separated by a net, using hands to volley the ball.
• Inline Hockey – Similar to ice hockey, players move around on a hard surface wearing inline skates instead of ice skates.
• Inline Skating – Also known as roller-blading, a variety of sports performed while wearing skates with wheels arranged in a single line.
• Inline Speed Skating – Athletes use inline skates to race around tracks or road circuits, focusing purely on speed.
• Inner Tube Water Polo – A fun variation of water polo that is played while each participant is sitting on an inner tube in a pool.
• Intercrosse – A non-contact version of lacrosse, designed for mixed ability groups and played indoors or outdoors with a softer ball.
• International Fronton – A sport played by striking a ball onto a wall with bare hands (or simple mitts), using rules adapted from many wall-ball sports.
• International Game – A team sport invented so that players from similar hand-ball sports could play against each other under a common code.
• International Rules Football – A hybrid code invented so that Aussie Rules Football players can play games against Irish Gaelic Football players.
• Irish Road Bowling – Competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads.
• Ironman Surf-Lifesaving – Combines four major aspects of surf-lifesaving into a single race: swimming, board-paddling, ski-paddling and beach running.
• Interpretive Dance – A performance sport or art form in which dancers express emotional or thematic content through movement, typically without set steps.

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