List of 'B' Sports
Here are all the 'B' sports from over 800 sports listed on our complete list of sports. There are a lot of B sports, such as Baseball, Basketball, Badminton, and a whole lot of beach sports.
There were too many to describe on just one page, so here we have a short description of just the sports starting with the letter 'B'.
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'B' Sports
- Backstroke — a swimming stroke performed on the back with the arms lifted alternately out of the water in a backward circular motion and the legs extended and kicking.
- Badminton — an indoor game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.
- Ba Game — a version of Medieval Football played in Scotland, a type of Mob Football where two parts of a town have to get a ball to their respective sides.
- Balance Beam — a female Olympic Games gymnastics event in which a gymnast balances on a narrow horizontal bar raised off the floor, while performing exercises.
- Balkline — a Carom Billiards discipline. A point is scored each time a player's cue ball makes contact with both object balls on a single stroke. It is played on a pocketless table that is divided by balklines on the cloth marking playing regions. Its precursor was a game called Straight Rail.
- Ball Badminton — a racket game native to India, played with a yellow ball made of wool, with similarities to Badminton.
- Ball Hockey — a variation of Ice Hockey, a lot like Street Hockey, in which the game is played on foot on a non-ice surface, and a ball is used instead of a hockey puck.
- Ballooning — competitive hot air ballooning is a test of accuracy, not speed. The aim is to fly as close as possible to a target and drop a weighted marker.
- Bandy — a team sport played on ice using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, a precursor to ice hockey. A variation is Rink Bandy.
- Banger Racing — racing event which is done on a dirt track using scrap cars.
- Banzai Skydiving — a form of skydiving in which the diver throws their parachute out the airplane door, waits and then jumps after it.
- Barefoot Skiing — involves skiing barefoot on water without the use of water skis.
- Bare-knuckle boxing — two individuals participate to fight against each other without using boxing gloves or any other type of padding on their hands. Also called Fisticuffs.
- Barrel Racing — a rodeo event where participants and horses complete a clover-leaf pattern around barrels.
- Baseball — a bat and ball game in which the aim is to hit the ball and score runs by running around four bases.
- BASE Jumping — involves parachuting from a structure or cliff, with competitions based on landing accuracy.
- Basketball — players attempt to shoot the ball through the hoop on the opponent’s court, moving the ball by throwing and dribbling.
- Basketball 3x3 — a variation of basketball played on a half-court with just three players on each team.
basketball game- Basque Pelota — a variety of court sports that involves hitting a ball against a wall using the hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket. Other forms include Pala Corta, Rubber-paleta, Paleta-Leather, Xare, Cesta Punta, Frontenis, Hand-Pelota, Valencian Pilota, Valencian Frontó. Jai Alai is a variety of Basque Pelota.
- Basse — a bag ball game from Norway in which the ball is kept from landing in the player's area, using any part of the body except the hands.
- Bat-and-Trap — an old English bat and ball game, in which a ball is projected into the air out of a trap using a bat, and then hit between posts 21 feet away.
- Baton Twirling — a metal rod called a baton, is manipulated, while simultaneously making coordinated dance moves.
- Bavarian Curling — another name for Ice Stock Sport.
- Beach Basketball — a version of basketball played on sand with two teams of three players.
- Beach Flags — a surf lifesaving sport in which competitors race in the sand to collect a flag.
- Beach Golf — a simplified version of golf played on sand with a polyurethane foam ball.
- Beach Handball — a variation of Team Handball, played on sand instead of indoors. This sport is sometimes called Sandball.
- Beach Netball — netball played in the sand on a half court.
- Beach Polo — polo on horseback though played on a sand field with sideboards so the ball is always in play.
- Beach Rugby — a version of rugby played on the sand.
- Beach Sambo — a modified version of sambo played on the sand, with bouts lasting three minutes, without penalties and mat wrestling.
- Beach Soccer — similar to association football but played on a beach or sand.
- Beach Tennis — a sport which has elements from tennis and volleyball, and played on the beach.
- Beach Volleyball— a version of Volleyball played on and with teams of two players, in which a ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court.
- Beach Water Polo — an open water version of Water Polo played on a smaller field with four players per team.
- Beach Woodball — a version of Woodball played on sand that involves using a mallet to pass a ball through gates.
- Beach Wrestling — a standing up position style of wrestling conducted on beach sand.
- Behcup — similar to putting in golf, though the balls are hit into a small goal and not into a hole.
- Beikou Tarkbei (also called Daur Hockey) — a team sport unique to the Daur ethnic group in Inner Mongolia, that has a lot of similarities to field hockey.
- Belt Wrestling — the aim is to knock down the opponent by grappling with their belt.
- Benchpress — the barbell bench press is one of three lifts in the sport of powerlifting. Participants lie on their back holding the weight on both hands, push it upwards, and then lower the weight again to the chest level.
- Benchrest Shooting — a shooting sport where the participant shoots with a rifle at the bench.
- Biathle — consist of swimming and running as part of a single race. It is usually over a shorter distance than the similar Aquathlon.
- Biathlon — a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
- Bicycle Motocross (BMX) — races on BMX bicycles.
- Bicycle Polo — similar to Polo, though played on bicycles instead of horses.
- Big Wave Surfing — experienced surfers paddle into or are towed onto waves that are at least 20 feet high.
- Bikejoring — a single dog or a team of harnessed dogs pull along a rider on a bike.
- Billiards — billiards is the historical umbrella term for a range of cue sports, though in some countries it refers to the specific game of English Billiards.
- Biribol — an aquatic version of volleyball developed in Brazil.
- Blind Cricket — a modified version of cricket for blind athletes with a larger ball with bells inside..
- Blind Football — 5-a-side Association football for athletes with a visual impairment.
- Boardercross — snowboarders race each other on a downhill winding course. Also called Snowboard Cross.
- Bobsleigh — winter sport on a sled making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, ice tracks.
- Bocce — is part of the boules sport family, similar to bowls and pétanque a ball is thrown as close as possible to a smaller 'jack'.
- Boccia — a ball sport similar to bocce, bowls, and pétanque for athletes with physical disabilities.
- Bodyboarding — a water sport in which the surfer stands or lays on a short board in the surf.
- Bodybuilding — participants show their developed muscular build through poses, and are judged based on muscularity, conditioning, and symmetry.
- Bodyflight — an acrobatic sport involving skydiving or a vertical tunnel to perform maneuvers while in the air.
- Bolas Criollas — a traditional Venezuelan team sport like bocce and pétanque in which players throw a set of balls as close as possible to the small target ball.
- Boli Khela — a form of wrestling that is practiced in Bangladesh and India.
- Boomerang Throwing — competitions involving throwing and catching boomerangs.
- Borden Ball — see Handball.
- Bossaball — played on an inflatable court with trampolines on each side of the net.
- Boßeln — a sport similar to the field style of Klootschieten played in Germany.
- Bouldering — a type of sport rock climbing in which competitors attempt to climb a series of fixed routes of increasing difficulty.
- Boules — a collective name for a wide range of sports in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as close as possible to a small target ball.
- Bowling — a general term of a large range of sports in which the player rolls a ball to knock down objects. The most common variation is Tenpin Bowling.
- Bowls — commonly refers to Lawn Bowls. For other types of bowls sports, see Bowling.
- Box lacrosse — a version of lacrosse that is played in a smaller indoor arena (box), with six players in each team.
- Boxing — a combat sport in which two players throw punches at each other.
- Brännboll — a Scandinavian game that has similarities to rounders, but with no pitcher.
- Brazilian Jiu-jitsu — a combat sport from Brazil based on ground fighting and submission holds, developed from judo and jujutsu.
- Breakdancing — an athletic style of street dance.
- Breaststroke — one of the major swimming strokes, performed with the swimmer with his chest forward and facing towards to bottom of the pool.
- Bridge — a card game that is played by four players, playing in two competing partnerships. Players score points based on the number of tricks achieved.
- British Baseball — a bat-and-ball game played in Wales and England similar to rounders.
- Broomball — a game like ice hockey played with a broom.
- Bull Fighting — involves one or more bulls that are being fought in a bullring.
- Bull Riding — a Rodeo Sport, that involves a rider getting on a large bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal attempts to buck them off.
- Bunnock — a kind of skittles game that is played with bones (commonly known as "Game of Bones").
- Butterfly stroke — one of the major swimming stroke styles, swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously, accompanied by a "dolphin kick".
- Buzkashi — a Central Asian sport like polo in which riders on horses attempt to drag a goat carcass toward the goal. There is a variant known as kokpar which is quite similar.
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