Bossaball is a ball game between two teams, combining elements of volleyball, football, gymnastics and capoeira.
Bossaball
It’s a wild mix-up of two of mankind’s oldest sporting obsessions. Opponents battle on the board and slug it out in the ring, alternating between rounds of chess and boxing, until there is a winner by checkmate or KO.
Chess Boxing
Shin Kicking is a popular sport and dates back to 1612, since then we have altered the rules to make this lovable sport safer for all involved.
Shin Kicking
Yes, cheese rolling is, in fact, an actual sport.
Cheese-Rolling
Competitive eating, or speed eating, is a sport in which participants compete against each other to eat large quantities of food, usually in a short time.
Competitive Eating
Wife Carrying originated in Finland, and its history is based around the 19th century legend of Herkko Rosvo-Ronkainen, or “Ronkainen the Robber.
Wife Carrying
It is a globally played limited-contact sport in which two teams compete to manoeuvre a puck across the bottom of a swimming pool into the opposing team's goal by propelling it with a hockey stick (or pusher).
Underwater Hockey
Kabaddi is basically a combative sport, with seven players on each side; played for a period of 40 minutes with a 5 minutes break (20-5-20).
Kabaddi
All you need is an ironing board, a portable iron and some wrinkled garment, and you're good to go.
Extreme Ironing
Zorbing is generally performed on a gentle slope but can also be done on a level surface, permitting more rider control.
Zorbing
Toe Wrestling is another childhood game that has made it to the big time adult sporting world.
Toe Wrestling
Quidditch, officially known as quadball since 2022, is a team sport that was created in 2005 at Middlebury College.
Quidditch
The Calcio Storico Fiorentino is a combination of soccer, rugby and big time wrestling.
Calcio Fiorentino
Korfball, an indoor, mixed-gender ball game that is a mixture of basketball and netball.
Korfball
This is one of the traditional Inuit tugging games which is part of World Eskimo-Indian Olympics held annually since 1961.
