Former Summer Olympic sports

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails (small sticks) balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding bats, while one player from the fielding team, the bowler, bowls the ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one r

sport and art performed with figure skates on ice

Polo is a stick and ball game that is played on horseback as a traditional field sport. One of the oldest known team sports in the world, it originated as Chovgan (Persian: چوگان) in greater Iran and central Asia over two millennia ago, and was later adopted by the Western world from its modern form developed in India.

team sport, code of rugby football

sport in which two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope

Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively modified by European colonists, reducing the violence, to create its current collegiate and professional form.

thumb|Leon Wyczółkowski, A Game of Croquet (1892–1895), National Museum, [[Warsaw]] Croquet ( or ) is a sport which involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.

variety of court sports

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.

type of sport

gymnastics and dance on horseback

Roque ( ) is an American variant of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface. Popular in the first quarter of the 20th century and billed "the Game of the Century" by its enthusiasts, it was an Olympic sport in the 1904 Summer Games, replacing croquet from the previous games.

indoor racquet sport

type of exercise equipment

Singlestick is a martial art that uses a wooden stick as its weapon. It began as a way of training soldiers in the use of backswords (such as the sabre or the cutlass). Canne de combat, a French form of stick fighting, is similar to singlestick play, which also includes a self-defense variant with a walking stick.

Sport, ancestor of modern tennis

type of racing by ocean-going powerboats