WINTER SPORT
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 could be played at any time of the year. 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.
Ice skating
See also team sports.
★ Figure skating
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★ Short-track speed skating
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★ Speed skating
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★ Synchronized skating
Snowboarding
★ Freestyle snowboarding
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★ Alpine snowboarding
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★ Boardercross
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★ Slalom
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Skiing
Sports in which skis are used on snow.
★ Alpine skiing
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★ Biathlon
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★ Cross country skiing
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★ Firngleiten
★ Freestyle skiing
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★ Nordic combined
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★ Ski archery
★ Skiboarding
★ Skibob
★ Skijoring
★ Ski jumping
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★ Snowshoe
★ Speed skiing
★ Telemark skiing
Sledding
Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.
★ Ice Blocking
★ Bobsleigh
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★ Luge
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★ Skeleton
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★ Wok racing
★ Dogsled racing
Team sports
Sports that involve teams, played on ice.
★ Bandy
★ Broomball
★ Curling
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★ Ice hockey
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★ Ice stock sport
★ Ringette
★ Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
★ denotes a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.
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
★ Andes
★ Rocky Mountains
★ Alps
★ Snowy Mountains
★ Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten
★ Lapland
★ Appalachian Mountains
★ Carpathian Mountains
★ Balkan Mountains
Winter Olympic Games.
★ Winter Sports
★ Trilingual vocabulary of Winter sports (English, Chinese, Japanese, by iyoway.jp) Shift_JIS
★ The Olympic Games - Facts and figures
★ New Winter Sport with Ski or Snowboard
| Contents |
| List of winter sports |
| Recreational sports |
| Famous Winter sport resort regions |
| See also |
| External links |
List of winter sports
Ice skating
See also team sports.
★ Figure skating
★
★ Short-track speed skating
★
★ Speed skating
★
★ Synchronized skating
Snowboarding
★ Freestyle snowboarding
★
★ Alpine snowboarding
★
★ Boardercross
★
★ Slalom
★
Skiing
Sports in which skis are used on snow.
★ Alpine skiing
★
★ Biathlon
★
★ Cross country skiing
★
★ Firngleiten
★ Freestyle skiing
★
★ Nordic combined
★
★ Ski archery
★ Skiboarding
★ Skibob
★ Skijoring
★ Ski jumping
★
★ Snowshoe
★ Speed skiing
★ Telemark skiing
Sledding
Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.
★ Ice Blocking
★ Bobsleigh
★
★ Luge
★
★ Skeleton
★
★ Wok racing
★ Dogsled racing
Team sports
Sports that involve teams, played on ice.
★ Bandy
★ Broomball
★ Curling
★
★ Ice hockey
★
★ Ice stock sport
★ Ringette
★ Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
★
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
Famous Winter sport resort regions
★ Andes
★ Rocky Mountains
★ Alps
★ Snowy Mountains
★ Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten
★ Lapland
★ Appalachian Mountains
★ Carpathian Mountains
★ Balkan Mountains
See also
Winter Olympic Games.
External links
★ Winter Sports
★ Trilingual vocabulary of Winter sports (English, Chinese, Japanese, by iyoway.jp) Shift_JIS
★ The Olympic Games - Facts and figures
★ New Winter Sport with Ski or Snowboard
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