List of Sports – L

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

• La soule – A medieval French ball game played by large teams over open ground, where the objective is to carry or strike the ball to a target area.
• Laamb – A traditional Senegalese wrestling sport combining striking and grappling, often contested with cultural rituals and large local followings.
• Lacrosse (men) – A fast-paced field team sport using sticks with nets to carry, pass and shoot a small rubber ball into the opponent’s goal.
• Lacrosse (women) – A version of lacrosse for women with modified contact rules and equipment where players pass and shoot to score in the opponent’s net.
• Lagori – A southern Indian team game where players knock over a stack of flat stones with a ball then try to rebuild the pile while avoiding being hit.
• Lapta – A traditional Russian bat-and-ball game where players hit a thrown ball and run to and from bases to score.
• Land Kiteboarding – A land variant of kiteboard sports where riders are pulled by a power kite while standing or riding on wheeled boards across firm surfaces.
• Land Sailing – Also called land yachting or sand yachting; a wheeled vehicle with a sail is driven across flat land by wind for speed and racing.
• Land Speed Records – A motorsport endeavour where competitors attempt to set the fastest speed over a measured distance in defined vehicle classes, typically on salt flats.
• Land Windsurfing – A windsurfing adaptation on wheels using a sail rig mounted to a wheeled deck to travel across land using wind power.
• Laser Run – A combined modern pentathlon discipline that alternates laser-pistol shooting with 800-metre running legs in repeated sequences.
• Laser Tag – An infrared tag skirmish sport where players attempt to score points by hitting opponents’ sensors with handheld emitters in an arena environment.
• Lawn Bowls – A precision target sport where biased bowls are rolled on a flat green to stop as close as possible to a small target ball called the jack.
• Lawn Mower Racing – A novelty motorsport where competitors race modified lawn mowers around short circuits in timed heats for speed and control.
• Lawn Tennis – The traditional outdoor form of tennis played on grass courts, featuring singles and doubles matches with rackets and a pressurised ball.
• Lead Climbing – A rock-climbing discipline in which the climber ascends while placing protection and clipping the rope from below, scored on height or feat completion.
• Legends Car Racing – A spec-racing motorsport using 5/8-scale replica car bodies on identical chassis and engines, emphasising driver skill in tightly matched machines.
• Lelo Burti – A traditional Georgian full-contact folk ball game resembling rugby in which teams attempt to carry a heavy ball across the opponent’s goal line.
• Letterboxing – An outdoor recreational sport combining orienteering and puzzle solving in which participants follow clues to find hidden weather-proof boxes and leave a stamp.
• Lethwei – A Burmese full-contact martial art and combat sport permitting headbutts and bare-knuckle striking, fought under traditional knockout-style rules.
• Lifeguard Triathlon - a surf lifesaving event that includes surf swimming, board paddling and beach running.
• Lifesaving (sport) – A sport derived from surf-lifesaving skills that includes pool and ocean events simulating rescue scenarios and timed team relays.
• Lightweight Rowing – Rowing categories with maximum athlete weights designed to emphasise technique and endurance over pure power in crew events.
• Limited Overs Cricket – A cricket format in which each team bats for a fixed number of overs (for example 20 or 50) and the higher total wins.
• Line Dancing (competitive) – Choreographed group dance performed in lines or rows and judged in competitions on timing, precision and complexity.
• Log Rolling – A lumberjack water sport where two competitors balance on a floating log and attempt to displace the opponent by spinning, kicking and edging the log.
• Long Drive – A golf specialty competition where contestants attempt to hit a golf ball as far as possible under contest rules.
• Long Jump – A track-and-field event in which an athlete sprints and jumps horizontally from a take-off board into a sand pit to achieve maximum distance.
• Long Track Motorcycle Speedway – A high-speed motorcycle racing discipline on longer oval tracks than typical speedway, with riders competing in heats at elevated speeds.
• Longboarding – A skateboard sport using longer boards for downhill racing, freeriding and cruising, often emphasising speed control and carving technique.
• Longue Paume – An outdoor French court game descended from jeu de paume, played without a net across a rectangular field with hand or racquet strokes.
• Longboard Surfing – A surfing discipline using long boards that emphasises paddling, nose-riding and smooth manoeuvres in small to medium waves.
• Long-Range Shooting – A precision shooting sport where participants engage targets at extended distances with rifles, scored on accuracy and consistency.
• Luge – A winter sliding sport in which a solo athlete lies supine on a small sled and races feet-first down an ice track for fastest time.
• Lumberjack (timber sports) – A collection of wood-cutting and handling events (axe chopping, sawing, log rolling) derived from forestry work, contested for speed and skill.

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