A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice, but informally can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round like basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events such as luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. Other common winter sports include snow-blading, monoskiing, skwal and tobogganing. For other uses, see Winter (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Snow (disambiguation). ... This article is about water ice. ... This article is about the sport. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Cross-country skiing (skating style) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. ... Snowboarder in a half-pipe Snowboarder riding off cornice Snowboarding contributes greatly to the economies of ski resorts Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard that is attached to ones feet using a boot/binding interface. ... Snow blades are short skis similar to bigfeet. ... The term monoski can refer to either of two unrelated pieces of ski equipment. ... A skwal is the main piece of equipment used for skwalling, a form of Skiing. ... A toboggan is a simple sled used on snow, to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope, for recreation. ...

List of winter sports

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Ice skating

See also team sports. Outdoor ice skating in Austria Ice skating is travelling on ice with skates, narrow (and sometimes parabolic) blade-like devices moulded into special boots (or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular footwear). ...

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating

Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Short track speed skating (also Shorttrack speedskating) is a form of ice skating akin to speed skating. ... Marigold IceUnity Synchronized skating, a large and fast-growing, yet little recognized discipline, consists of 12-16 athletes skating on ice at one time moving as one flowing unit at high speeds. ...

Snowboarding

• Freestyle snowboarding *
• Alpine snowboarding *
• Boardercross *
• Slalom *

Snowboarder in a half-pipe Snowboarder riding off cornice Snowboarding contributes greatly to the economies of ski resorts Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a snow-covered slope on a snowboard that is attached to ones feet using a boot/binding interface. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Alpine snowboarding BEN JENKINS RULES THE WORLD is a small niche of the sport of snowboarding. ... Snowboard Cross (sometimes referred to as Boarder Cross) is a snowboard competition in which a group of racers (usually four or more) start simultaneously atop an inclined course, then attempt to reach the end of the course first. ... To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. ...

Skiing

Sports in which skis are used on snow. Cross-country skiing (skating style) in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. ...

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross country skiing *
• Firngleiten
• Freestyle skiing *
• Nordic combined *
• Ski archery
• Skiboarding
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowshoe
• Speed skiing
• Telemark skiing

Alpine skier carving a turn on piste Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long, thin skis attached to each foot. ... Several biathletes in the shooting area of a competition Biathlon (not to be confused with duathlon) is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. ... Cross-country skiing (aka XC skiing) is an adventure and fitness activity as well as a competitive winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily in Europe and Canada. ... Freestyle skiing began in the 1930s, when Norwegian skiers began performing acrobatics during alpine and cross-country training. ... The Nordic combined is a winter sport in which athletes compete in both cross-country skiing and ski jumping. ... Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. ... Skiboarder performing a grab. ... SKIBOBS - STALMACH GROUP AUSTRIA : www. ... Skijoring is a winter dog-powered sport popularized in North America and derived from the Scandinavian sport of pulka. ... Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down an inrun with a take-off ramp (the jump), attempting to go as far as possible. ... For other uses, see Snowshoe (disambiguation). ... Speed skiing is the sport of skiing downhill in a straight line as fast as possible. ... Telemark skiing is a term used for skiing using the Telemark turn, which is a technique first popularized by Sondre Norheim. ...

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

• Ice Blocking
• Bobsleigh *
• Luge *
• Skeleton *
• Wok racing
• Dogsled racing

Ice blocking is a quasi-sport in which individuals race to the bottom of a hill sitting on large blocks of ice. ... Historic bobteam from Davos around 1910 Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-02-04, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... A luge is small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine and feet-first. ... United States Air Force Major Brady Canfield, 2003 U.S. skeleton champion, shows his takeoff form. ... Wok Racing is a new kind of sport developed by German talk show host Stefan Raab. ... Dogsled racing is a winter dog sport involving the timed competition of teams of sleddogs that pull a sled, on the runners of which the dog driver or musher stands. ...

Team sports

Sports that involve teams, played on ice. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Curling *
• Ice hockey *
• Ice stock sport
• Ringette
• Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
• Snowball Association - (Last one standing)

. Look up bandy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A game of broomball begins with a face-off Broomball is a popular recreational ice sport originating in Canada and played around the world. ... For other uses, see Curling (disambiguation). ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Ice stock sport (also known as German Curling) is a winter sport, somewhat similar to curling. ... Ringette is a team sport played on an ice surface. ... Ice Hockey Sledge Sledge hockey is a sport that was designed to allow participants who have a physical disability to play the game of ice hockey. ... Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an official equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. ...

Recreational sports

Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.

• Ice boating or Ice sailing
• Tobogganing
• Snowball fight
• Building snowmen
• Shinny
• Ice swimming
• Ice fishing

An ice boat (more commonly spelled as one word - iceboat, once called an ice scooter) is a boat or purpose-built framework similar in appearance to a sail boat but fitted with skis or runners (skates) and designed to run over ice instead of (liquid) water, known in the sport... An ice boat (more commonly spelled as one word - iceboat, once called an ice scooter) is a boat or purpose-built framework similar in appearance to a sail boat but fitted with skis or runners (skates) and designed to run over ice instead of (liquid) water, known in the sport... A modern bobsleigh toboggan A toboggan is a simple sled used on snow, to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope, for recreation. ... Four college students from Montclair State University attack their friend during a snowball fight. ... A classic snowman. ... Shinny is an informal type of hockey, either on ice or as street hockey. ... Ice swimming is swimming in a body of water with a frozen crust of ice, which requires cutting a hole in the ice. ... Ice fishing in the Finnish Miljoonapilkki fishing competition. ...

Famous Winter sport resort regions

• Andes
• Rocky Mountains
• Alps
• Snowy Mountains
• Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten mountains
• Lapland
• Appalachian Mountains
• Carpathian Mountains
• Balkan Mountains

This article is about the mountain system in South America. ... For individual mountains named Rocky Mountain, see Rocky Mountain (disambiguation). ... Alp redirects here. ... Worldwind image of Snowy Mountains The Snowy Mountains (known for short as the Snowies) are the highest Australian mountain range and contain the Australian mainlands highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, which reaches 2228 metres AHD. They are located in southern New South Wales and are part of the larger Australian... Aerial view over the Karkonosze The Karkonosze (Polish; pronounced kár-ko-no-she) or Krkonoše (Czech; IPA: ) is a mountain range in the Sudetes in Central Europe. ... A view from Zygmuntówka refuge, Góry Sowie Śnieżka/Sněžka/Snow Mountain Destroyed forest on the top of Wielka Sowa The Sudetes (IPA: ), also called Sudeten (in German; pronounced: ) or Sudety (pronounced in Czech, in Polish), is a mountain range in Central Europe. ... Lappi, or the Province of Lapland is one of the Provinces of Finland, and a part of the larger geographical area of Lapland, which spans over four countries. ... The Appalachian Mountains are a vast system of mountains in eastern North America. ... Satellite image of the Carpathians. ... Stara Planina, Rhodope, Rila and Pirin Mountains View from Ray Resthouse towards the Central Balkan Mountains. ...

See also

Winter Olympic Games. An athlete carries the Olympic torch during the 2002 torch relay The Winter Olympic Games are a winter multi-sport event held every four years. ...

External links

• Winter Sports

• Trilingual vocabulary of Winter sports (English, Chinese, Japanese, by iyoway.jp) Shift_JIS
• New Winter Sport with Ski or Snowboard
• Ski in Gulmarg - Kashmir
• North America Snow Sledding - Sled Riding
• Last one standing - Swiss Snowball Association and World Snowball Union