List of "P" Sports

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

• Paddleball – A ball sport played with a solid paddle, where players hit a small rubber ball against a wall or between opponents in variations such as one-wall or four-wall formats.
• Paddleboarding – A water sport in which participants kneel, lie, or stand on a board and use their arms or a paddle to move through the water.
• Paddle Tennis – A smaller-court version of tennis played with solid paddles and a depressurized ball, typically on an enclosed court.
• Padel Tennis – A hybrid of tennis and squash played on a smaller court surrounded by glass walls using solid paddles.
• Paintball – A team combat sport where players eliminate opponents by hitting them with paint-filled capsules shot from air-powered markers.
• Palant – A traditional Polish bat-and-ball game similar to baseball, involving running between bases and hitting a rubber ball with a stick.
• Palla – A traditional Italian street ball game, often played in village squares, where teams volley a ball by hand across a designated line.
• Pall Mall – An early lawn game and ancestor of croquet, involving hitting a ball through a high arch using a mallet.
• Pankration – An ancient Greek combat sport combining wrestling and boxing, revived in modern times as a mixed martial art.
• Parachuting – Also called skydiving, this involves jumping from an aircraft and descending to the ground using a parachute.
• Paragliding – A flying sport where participants glide through the air using a lightweight, free-flying canopy launched from hills or cliffs.
• Parallel Bars – A men’s gymnastics discipline featuring swinging, balancing, and vaulting movements between two parallel bars.
• Paralympic Football – Adapted football competitions for athletes with disabilities, including 5-a-side for the visually impaired and 7-a-side for athletes with cerebral palsy.
• Paralympic Volleyball – An adapted version of volleyball for athletes with physical impairments, featuring a smaller court and a lower net.
• Parasailing – A recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed parachute.
• Paratriathlon – A 750 m swim, a 20 km bike with handcycles, bicycles or tandems with a guide, and a 5 km wheelchair or running race.
• Pärk (or Paerk) – An outdoor team sport originally from Gotland, in which participants hit or kick the ball to gain field position.
• Park Skateboarding – A skateboarding discipline performed in bowl-like parks featuring ramps, curves, and vertical walls for tricks and aerials.
• Parkour – A discipline involving efficient movement over obstacles in urban or natural environments through running, jumping, and climbing.
• Patball – A playground ball game where players hit a ball against a wall with their hands or heads to keep it in play.
• Pato – The national sport of Argentina, combining elements of basketball and polo, played on horseback with a ball and handles.
• Pehlwani – A traditional South Asian form of wrestling combining ancient Indian and Persian techniques.
• Pelota Mixteca – A Mexican team game similar to tennis, played without a net and using heavy decorated gloves to strike the ball.
• Pelota Purépecha – An indigenous Mexican stickball game, sometimes played with a flaming ball, resembling field hockey.
• Pencak Silat – A traditional Indonesian martial art emphasizing strikes, throws, and weapon use.
• Pentathlon (Athletics) – a track and field event combining five disciplines such as hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump and an 800m run (varies by age and gender).
• Pentathlon (Modern) – A multi-discipline Olympic sport featuring fencing, swimming, horse riding, running, and shooting.
• Personal Water Craft – A motorized water sport using small jet-powered vehicles like Jet Skis or WaveRunners.
• Pesäpallo – The Finnish version of baseball, where the pitcher throws the ball vertically to the batter.
• Pétanque – A French boules game where players toss metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden target ball.
• Peteca – A Brazilian sport played by hitting a shuttlecock with the hand over a high net.
• Pickleball – A racket sport blending tennis, badminton, and ping-pong, played on a small court with paddles and a perforated ball.
• Picigin – A Croatian beach game where players attempt to keep a small ball from touching the water using acrobatic dives.
• Pigeon Racing – A timed sport where homing pigeons are released from a specific location and race back to their home lofts.
• Ping Pong – Another name for table tennis, where players hit a lightweight ball back and forth over a net using small paddles.
• Pitch and Putt – A short-course version of golf featuring smaller holes and limited club use, usually a wedge and a putter.
• Pitton – A racket sport combining elements of pickleball and badminton, played with a hard paddle and a shuttlecock.
• Platform Tennis – A racquet sport similar to tennis, played on an elevated, enclosed court with walls used for rebounds.
• Playboating – A freestyle kayaking discipline performed in a stationary water feature where paddlers execute acrobatic tricks.
• Pleasure Driving – A judged equestrian sport where horses pull carriages, assessed on performance, manners, and presentation.
• Pocket Billiards – Also known as Pool, a cue sport played on a table with six pockets, where balls are struck into the pockets using a cue stick.
• Pole Climbing – A competition where athletes climb tall vertical poles as quickly as possible.
• Pole Dancing – A sport and art form combining dance and acrobatics performed on a vertical pole.
• Pole Fishing – A method of coarse fishing using a long pole without a reel, allowing precise bait placement.
• Pole Vault – A track and field event where athletes use a flexible pole to vault over a horizontal bar.
• Polo – A horseback team sport where riders use mallets to drive a small ball into the opponent’s goal.
• Polocrosse – An equestrian sport combining polo and lacrosse, played with rackets and a rubber ball.
• Pommel Horse – A men’s gymnastics event where the gymnast performs continuous circular movements on a padded apparatus with handles.
• Pond Hockey – A casual form of ice hockey played outdoors on natural frozen ponds or lakes.
• Popinjay – A target shooting sport where participants aim at bird-like targets mounted on poles using rifles or bows.
• Power Hockey – A version of hockey for power wheelchair users, played indoors on a basketball court.
• Power Tumbling – A gymnastics discipline performed on a long spring runway emphasizing flips and twists in sequence.
• Powerbocking – A sport involving jumping and running using spring-loaded stilts that allow for high leaps and fast movement.
• Powerchair Football – A form of football played indoors by athletes using electric wheelchairs.
• Powered Hang Glider – A form of hang gliding that uses a lightweight motorized propeller for powered flight.
• Powered Paragliding – A version of paragliding where a motorized propeller worn on the back provides thrust for takeoff and flight.
• Powerlifting – A strength sport consisting of three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.
• Practical Shooting – A dynamic shooting sport combining speed, accuracy, and movement through timed obstacle courses.
• Pradal Serey – A traditional Cambodian martial art similar to kickboxing, emphasizing punches, kicks, and elbow strikes.
• Prizefighting – The historical form of bare-knuckle boxing, popular before modern boxing rules were established.
• Push ball – A team game played with a large inflated ball that players must push through the opposing team’s goal.
• Putting – A precision golf skill focused on rolling the ball into the hole from short distances.

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