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Olympic discipline list
List started by
jeff
for the Olympics domain
All sports currently or formerly contested in the modern Olympic Games are included here, including those only contested as demonstration sports....
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| Archery |
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Sport | 2000 Summer Olympics |
Archery is the practice of using a bow or crossbow to shoot arrow. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat and has become a precision sport. A person practicing archery is called an archer, and one who is fond of or an expert at...
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| Baseball |
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Sport | 2000 Summer Olympics |
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot...
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| Computer Game Genre | 1996 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Type/domain equivalent topic | 2004 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Film genre | 1992 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Basketball | Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed...
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| Computer Game Genre | 1948 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Type/domain equivalent topic | 2000 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | 1996 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Olympic event competition | 1976 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Badminton |
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Sport | 2000 Summer Olympics |
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with...
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| Boxing |
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Film subject | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a combat sport in which two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fist. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of...
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| Sport | 1948 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Computer Game Genre | 2000 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Film genre | 1996 Summer Olympics | ||||
| TV Genre | 1976 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Biathlon |
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Sport | 2002 Winter Olympics |
Biathlon (not to be confused with duathlon) is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Another...
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| Croquet |
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Sport | 1900 Summer Olympics |
Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena.
According to Nicky Smith , there are two theories...
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| Curling |
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Sport | 2002 Winter Olympics |
Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffle board, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice. Teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones down the ice towards the target ...
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| Cross-country skiing | Sport | 2002 Winter Olympics |
Cross-country skiing (also known as XC skiing) is a winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada and Alaska. The popularity of the sport has been quickly growing in the United States and in...
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| Club interest | 1948 Winter Olympics | ||||
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| Diving |
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Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics whilst jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured...
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| Tourist attraction | 1948 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Olympic event competition | 2000 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Football |
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Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Football
(also known as association football or soccer) is a team sport played
between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely considered to be the
most popular sport in the world. A ball game, it is played on a
rectangular grass field, or...
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| Computer Game Genre | 1948 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Profession | 2000 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Type/domain equivalent topic | 1996 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Website Category | 1976 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Field hockey |
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Sport |
Field hockey is a team sport in which players attempt to score goals by hitting the ball across the pitch with a stick. Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many countries. However, the name field hockey is used...
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| Fencing |
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Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Fencing is the art of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping bludgeon weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned, of Europe origin. Examples include sword, knives, pikes, bayonet, baton, clubs, and...
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| Book Subject | 1948 Summer Olympics | ||||
| Martial Art | 1896 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Figure skating |
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Film subject | 2002 Winter Olympics |
Figure skating is an athletic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and...
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| Sport | 1948 Winter Olympics | ||||
| Computer Game Genre | 1928 Winter Olympics | ||||
| Profession | 1924 Winter Olympics | ||||
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| Golf |
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Sport | 1900 Summer Olympics |
Golf is a game in which a player, using many types of clubs including a driver, a putter, and irons, hits a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a...
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| Computer Game Genre | 1904 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Gymnastics |
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Sport |
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique ...
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| Team handball |
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Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
'''Handball (also known as team handball, field handball, European handball, or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the...
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| Ice Hockey |
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Sport | 2002 Winter Olympics |
Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural, reliable seasonal ice cover, though with the advent of...
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| Computer Game Genre | 1948 Winter Olympics | ||||
| Profession | 1928 Winter Olympics | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | 1924 Winter Olympics | ||||
| School sports team | 2006 Winter Olympics | ||||
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| Judo |
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Sport | 2000 Summer Olympics |
, meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw one's...
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| Martial Art | 1996 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Lacrosse |
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Sport | 1908 Summer Olympics |
Lacrosse is a full contact team sport played using a solid rubber ball and long handled racket called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the crosse has a loose net strung into it that allows the player to hold the lacrosse ball. Offensively the...
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| School sports team | 1904 Summer Olympics | ||||
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| Polo |
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Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Polo is a team sport played outdoors on horseback in which the objective is to score goal against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a white wooden or plastic ball (size 3–3.5 inches, weight 4.25–4.75 ounces) into the opposing team's goal...
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| Rowing |
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Sport | 1936 Summer Olympics |
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on river, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water....
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| Outdoor activity | 1948 Summer Olympics | ||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| Tug of war |
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Sport | 1920 Summer Olympics |
Tug of war, tug o' war, or tug war, also known as rope pulling, is a sport that directly puts two teams against each other in a test of strength.
The term may be used as a metaphor to describe a demonstration of brute strength by two opposing...
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