Individual Sports: A List of 112 Solo Sports and Games

112 examples of individual sports and variations of those games, from archery to tennis to escrima.

Individual sports paint a diverse and captivating panorama, where participants tackle challenges and carve paths to success on their own terms, often with great sacrifice.

From the explosive speed of sprinters to the precision of archers, each sport has its own nuances and requisite abilities for competitors.

Martial arts, aquatic disciplines, racquet sports, and more showcase prowess and technique. Extreme sports test courage, while equestrian events reveal the bond between rider and horse.

These athletes compete on a global stage, chasing records, international acclaim and in some cases, the riches that come with global sporting success.

This is a list of individual sports and games, although not exhaustive, that contains all major sports as well as some more unknown and less-played games.

Individual Athletics and Track Sports: Running, Jumping & Throwing

• Running

  • Sprints - 60m (indoor) 100m, 200m & 400m

  • Middle Distance - 800m, 1500m, The Mile & 3000m

  • Long Distance - 3000m steeplechase, 5000m, 10,000m & The Marathon

• Hurdles

  • 100m, 110m, 200m and 400m

• Jumping

  • Long jump

  • High jump

  • Triple jump - check out 10 of the greatest triple jumpers in history!

  • Pole vault

• Throwing

  • Shot put

  • Discus

  • Javelin

  • Hammer throw

• Heptathlon

• Pentathlon

• Decathlon

Individual Aquatic Sports: Swimming & Diving

• Swimming

  • Freestyle - 400m, 800m, 1500m

  • Breaststroke - 50m, 100m & 200m

  • Backstroke - 50m, 100m & 200m

  • Butterfly - 50m, 100m, & 200m

  • Individual medley - 100m, 200m & 400m

• Diving

  • Platform Diving - 5m, 7.5m & 10m

  • Springboard Diving - 1m & 3m

  • Natural/Cliff Diving

• Open Water Swimming

Combat Sports: Inside a Ring or Octagon

• Boxing

  • Minimumweight, 105 pounds (48 kg)

  • Light flyweight, 108 pounds (49 kg)

  • Flyweight, 112 pounds (51 kg)

  • Super flyweight, 115 pounds (52 kg)

  • Bantamweight, 118 pounds (53.5 kg)

  • Super bantamweight, 122 pounds (55 kg)

  • Featherweight, 126 pounds (57 kg)

  • Super featherweight, 130 pounds (59 kg)

  • Lightweight, 135 pounds (61 kg)

  • Super lightweight, 140 pounds (63.5 kg)

  • Welterweight, 147 pounds (67 kg)

  • Super welterweight, 154 pounds (70 kg)

  • Middleweight, 160 pounds (72.5 kg)

  • Super middleweight, 168 pounds (76 kg)

  • Light heavyweight, 175 pounds (79 kg)

  • Cruiserweight, 200 pounds (91 kg)

  • Heavyweight, unlimited

• Kickboxing

• MMA

• Wrestling

  • Greco-Roman

  • Freestyle

  • Sumo

  • Ssireum

Bowling: Games Played with Heavy Balls

10 Pin Bowling

Lawn Bowls

Petanque

Martial Arts: Competitive Forms of Martial Arts

Jiu-Jitsu

Muay Thai

Fencing

Archery

Kendo

Escrima / Kali

Taekwondo

Karate

Kung Fu

Aikido

Racquet Sports: Sports with Rackets or Bats

Lawn Tennis

Badminton

Squash

Table Tennis

Real Tennis

Rackets

Padel Tennis

Pickleball

Sticke

Beach Tennis

Gymnastics: Individual Gymnastics Disciplines

• Artistic Gymnastics

  • Floor exercise,

  • Pommel horse

  • Still rings,

  • Vault,

  • Parallel bars and

  • Horizontal bar - sometimes called the High Bar

• Rhythmic Gymnastics

  • Rope

  • Hoop

  • Ball

  • Clubs

  • Ribbon

• Trampoline Gymnastics

Cycling: Individual Sports with Bikes

• Road Cycling

• Track Cycling

  • Sprint Cycling

    • Sprint

    • Keirin

    • Time Trial

  • Endurance

    • Individual Pursuit

    • Points Race

    • Scratch Race

• Mountain Biking

• BMX

Individual Extreme and Adventure Sports

• Rock Climbing

• Abseiling

• Parkour

• Surfing

• Skateboarding

  • Freestyle

  • Vert

  • Street

  • Park

• Wake Boarding

• Kite Surfing

• Paddle Boarding

• Windsurfing

• Canoeing

Individual Winter Sports: Individual Sports Played on Snow & Ice

• Skiing

  • Alpine

  • Freestyle

  • Cross-country

• Snowboarding

• Ice Climbing

• Ice Skating

• Ski Jumping

• Luge

• Skeleton

• Speed Skating

• Nordic Combined

Equestrian Sports: Individual Sports with a Horse

• Show Jumping

• Dressage

• Eventing

• Horse Racing

  • Flat racing

  • Jump Racing - hurdles, fences and other obstacles

• Rodeo

Golf

Target Sports

• Archery

• Shooting

  • Rifle

  • Pistol

  • Shotgun - Clay pigeon

• Darts

Table Sports: Games and Sports Played on a Table!

Snooker

Pool

Billiards

Bar Billiards

Table Football

Endurance Sports

Biathlon

Triathlon - there are some great triathletes in sporting history!

Ironman

Ultra Marathon

Motor Sports

Formula 1 Racing

Formula 2 Racing

Formula 3 Racing

MotoGP

Motorcross

Speedway

Karting

Rally

Drag Racing

NASCAR

Stock Car Racing

Aerobatics

Aerobatic Flying

Weightlifting & Strength Sports

Olympic Weightlifting

Powerlifting

Strongman & Strongwoman

Paralympic Sports

Para archery

Para-athletics

Para badminton

Boccia

Para canoe

Para-cycling

Para Equestrian

Para judo

Para powerlifting

Shooting Para sport

Para swimming

Para table tennis

Para taekwondo

Para triathlon

Wheelchair fencing

Wheelchair tennis

Mind Sports

Chess

eSports (individual competitive video gaming)

Scrabble

Unusual Sports

Fierljeppen - Canal Jumping

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