Winter Olympic sports

team sport played on ice using sticks, skates, and a puck

thumb|upright=1.5|Alpine skiers Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS).

Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The goal is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, w

Biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It developed from the sport of military patrol, which began in 19th century Scandinavia and originated in ski warfare. In the Nordic languages, the sport is called "ski-shooting". The sport of biathlon involves many different types of races, with the commonality being contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds called bouts. The shooting rounds do not have a time limit, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra distance or time being added t

sport and art performed with figure skates on ice

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which individual athletes or teams of two to four athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (formerly the FIBT).

skiing sport with jumping down a hill

sport of skiing downhill

thumb|200px|Pictogram for Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics

competitive winter sport

Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled, down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first. The sport and the sled may have been named for the sled's resemblance to a ribcage.

thumb|250px|right|Doubles luge, Myroslav and Ivan Lenko at the 2022 2022–23 Luge World Cup|Luge World Cup trainings

activity on ice, either outdoors or indoors at a skating rink

competitive form of ice skating in which competitors race each other

winter sport combining the events of cross-country skiing and ski jumping

winter sport, in which skaters skate on an oval ice track with a length of 111.12 m

winter sport

association of winter sports federations recognized by the International Olympic Committee that compete in the Olympic Winter Games