List of Sports – O

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

• Obstacle Course Racing – A competitive event where athletes run through a course featuring a variety of physical challenges such as walls, mud pits, ropes, and balance obstacles.
• Ocean Rowing – A long-distance endurance sport involving rowing across entire seas or oceans, often as part of solo or team expeditions.
• Offroad Boarding – Also known as mountainboarding, this sport involves riding a board with large wheels down rough terrain or grassy slopes.
• Off-Road Racing – A form of motorsport contested on rough terrain, such as dirt tracks, deserts, or forest trails, using specially designed vehicles.
• Off-road Triathlon - a triathlon using open-water swimming, mountain biking and trail running.
• Offshore Powerboat Racing – A high-speed water sport where powerful motorboats race over open-water courses on oceans or large lakes.
• Oină – A traditional Romanian bat-and-ball game similar to baseball, played between two teams who alternate batting and fielding roles.
• Okinawan Kobudō – A martial art from Okinawa that focuses on traditional weapon training such as the bo staff, sai, and nunchaku.
• Old Cat – An early bat-and-ball game that is considered a precursor to modern baseball, played informally with varying numbers of bases.
• One Day International (ODI) – A format of cricket where each team faces a set number of overs, usually 50, with the match completed in a single day.
• One-Pocket – A cue sport variation in which players must legally pocket all their balls into one designated pocket to win.
• Open Water Swimming – A form of competitive swimming conducted in natural bodies of water like oceans, rivers, or lakes over long distances.
• Orienteering – A navigation sport where competitors use a map and compass to find checkpoints across rough terrain in the shortest time possible.
• Outrigger Canoeing – A paddling sport using canoes fitted with lateral support floats (outriggers) for stability, raced in teams or individually.
• Over-the-Line – A simplified bat-and-ball game related to baseball and softball, played with three-person teams where the pitcher and batter are on the same side.
• Ox Racing – A traditional rural sport, particularly in parts of Asia, where teams race oxen over short muddy tracks.
• Oztag – A non-contact form of rugby league where players wear tags that defenders must remove to indicate a tackle.

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