Sports With 5 Letters

Each press gives five sports with exactly five letters, and one box switches to four, six, seven or eight.

Sports With 5 Letters

  1. VarpaAn outdoor throwing game from Gotland, similar to boules but played with a flat, heavy object.
  2. SandaThe official full-contact kickboxing sport of China.
  3. PadelDoubles in a glass-walled court, and the ball may be played off the walls.
  4. BowlsAnother name for lawn bowls: see lawn bowls (L).
  5. LaptaA Russian folk game of the bat-and-ball kind, known since the 14th century.

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Sports with 5 letters include Darts, Rugby, Rodeo, Kendo and Padel. This page has 23 one-word names of five letters, each with a line on how the sport is played, and lists for four, six, seven and eight letters.

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Sports with five letters

All 23: Alysh, Arnis, Bandy, Bocce, Bowls, Chaza, Darts, Fives, Glima, Jokgu, Kendo, Kyudo, Lapta, Padel, Rodeo, Roque, Rugby, Saber, Sambo, Sanda, Trugo, Varpa and Wushu. Bowls and Rugby are everyday names that cover more than one sport.

4 letter sports and 6 letter sports

Four letter sports number 18, from Golf, Judo, Polo and Sumo to Épée, where the accented letter counts as one. Six letter sports number 27, among them Boxing, Soccer, Tennis and Karate. The box beside the button switches the length.

Seven letter sports and sports with 8 letters

There are 26 seven letter sports, such as Archery, Cricket and Fencing, and 42 sports with 8 letters, such as Baseball, Lacrosse and Swimming. Only one-word names count: a space or a hyphen rules a name out.

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  • Hockey has six letters and Football eight, but each is an everyday name for several sports; its line says which.

Questions and answers

What are some sports that have 5 letters?

Darts, Rugby, Rodeo, Kendo, Padel, Sambo, Bandy and Bocce all have five. So do Saber, one of the three disciplines of fencing, and Fives, an English handball sport.

What are 5 letter sports that start with R?

Rodeo, Roque and Rugby. Roque is an American variant of croquet that was an Olympic sport at the 1904 Games. Rugby is the everyday name for rugby union and rugby league.

Is this every sport with five letters?

It is every one-word name of five letters on our checked sports alphabet, 23 in all. A sport we have not confirmed in its own Wikipedia article is not listed, and nothing was added to make the list longer.

What is a 4 letter sport that starts with P?

Polo, Pool, Pato and Pärk. Pato is played on horseback and mixes polo and basketball; Pärk is a game from the island of Gotland.

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4 letters 18

  • Elle A bat-and-ball game popular in Sri Lanka; of all sports it is most like softball.
  • Épée Fencing with the largest and heaviest of the three weapons of the sport.
  • Foil Fencing with a light, flexible weapon; a point is scored only with the tip.
  • Gaga A variant of dodgeball played in a pit; the last player standing wins.
  • Golf A full round is 18 holes, and the fewest strokes wins.
  • Guts Two teams of five hurl a flying disc at each other; a missed one-handed catch scores a point.
  • Judo A clean throw onto the back scores ippon and ends the match.
  • Kubb A Swedish lawn game: knock over wooden blocks with thrown batons, then the king.
  • Luge Sliders lie on their backs and go feet first.
  • Oină A traditional Romanian bat-and-ball game, similar in many ways to baseball.
  • Pärk A game from the island of Gotland: a little like baseball, but two teams of seven play to gain ground.
  • Pato Played on horseback, mixing polo and basketball; the national sport of Argentina since 1953.
  • Polo Four riders a side, in periods called chukkers.
  • Pool Eight-ball and nine-ball are the most played games.
  • Sipa A traditional sport of the Philippines, related to sepak takraw; the name means kick.
  • Sumo A bout is lost by stepping out of the ring or touching down with anything but the soles of the feet.
  • Tejo A traditional throwing sport from Colombia, also called turmequé.
  • Xare A form of Basque pelota played with a wooden ring strung with a net, so the ball is thrown and not hit.
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5 letters 23

  • Alysh Belt wrestling of Central Asia: an upright style in which the wrestlers hold each other's belts.
  • Arnis The Filipino art of stick and empty-hand fighting, also called eskrima or kali.
  • Bandy Eleven a side on skates, on ice the size of a soccer field, with a ball instead of a puck.
  • Bocce Italian boules: roll or throw balls to finish nearest the small pallino.
  • Bowls Another name for lawn bowls: see lawn bowls (L).
  • Chaza A South American racquet sport played on a rectangle marked with lines.
  • Darts A standard leg counts down from 501 and must finish on a double.
  • Fives An English handball sport for singles or doubles, in a court with three or four walls.
  • Glima Icelandic folk wrestling: wrestlers grip each other by the waist and try for a throw.
  • Jokgu Also called Korean-style footvolley: a sport that mixes soccer with volleyball or tennis.
  • Kendo Japanese fencing with bamboo swords and armor.
  • Kyudo Japanese archery with a very tall, asymmetric bow.
  • Lapta A Russian folk game of the bat-and-ball kind, known since the 14th century.
  • Padel Doubles in a glass-walled court, and the ball may be played off the walls.
  • Rodeo A competitive equestrian sport that grew out of the working practices of cattle herding.
  • Roque An American variant of croquet on a hard, smooth surface; an Olympic sport at the 1904 Games.
  • Rugby Rugby football split into two sports, and smaller games grew from them: see rugby union (R), rugby league (R), rugby sevens (R), touch rugby (T), tag rugby (T), mini rugby (M), beach rugby (B).
  • Saber One of the three disciplines of fencing: the saber scores with a cut as well as a thrust.
  • Sambo A combat sport and style of wrestling that began in the Soviet Union.
  • Sanda The official full-contact kickboxing sport of China.
  • Trugo An Australian sport: a rubber ring is struck with a mallet so that it passes between posts.
  • Varpa An outdoor throwing game from Gotland, similar to boules but played with a flat, heavy object.
  • Wushu Chinese martial arts, contested as choreographed forms and as full-contact sparring.

6 letters 27

  • Boccia A seated precision ball sport from the boules family, designed for athletes with severe physical impairments.
  • Boules A collective name for games of throwing or rolling heavy balls at a small target ball: see bocce (B), pétanque (P).
  • Boxing Punches only, above the belt, with gloved fists.
  • Cammag A team sport from the Isle of Man, closely related to shinty and hurling.
  • Diving Judges score dives from a springboard or from a platform up to 10 meters high.
  • Ekiden A long-distance relay race run in stages, mostly on roads; the word is Japanese.
  • Enduro Long off-road motorcycle events built from timed stages.
  • Futsal Five a side indoors, with a smaller ball that barely bounces and no walls in play.
  • Gouren A style of folk wrestling practiced in Brittany for several centuries.
  • Hockey A family of stick sports: see field hockey (F), ice hockey (I), inline hockey (I), ball hockey (B), street hockey (S), floor hockey (F).
  • Jianzi A traditional Chinese sport: keep a weighted shuttlecock in the air without using the hands.
  • Karate Competition has two sides: kata, a solo form, and kumite, sparring.
  • Kurash The name of several folk wrestling styles of Central Asia; towels are used to hold the opponent.
  • Matkot A paddle sport popular in Israel, similar to beach tennis.
  • Minkey Short for mini hockey: field hockey modified for elementary school children.
  • Neppis A Finnish outdoor game that simulates race driving with small toy cars on sand.
  • Novuss A game for two or four on a board about 100 centimeters square, related to carrom and pocket billiards.
  • Peteca A traditional sport of Brazil, played with a shuttlecock that is hit by hand.
  • Quoits A traditional game of throwing metal, rope or rubber rings to land over or near a spike.
  • Rowing Rowers sit facing the stern, so the boat travels backwards from where they look.
  • Savate French kickboxing, fought in shoes, with kicks made only with the foot.
  • Shinty A Scottish stick-and-ball game where the ball may be played in the air with either side of the stick.
  • Skiing An everyday name for the sports on skis: see alpine skiing (A), cross-country skiing (C), freestyle skiing (F), ski jumping (S), telemark skiing (T).
  • Soccer Eleven a side, and only the goalkeeper may handle the ball, inside the penalty area.
  • Squash Two players share a walled court and take turns hitting the front wall.
  • Tennis Points run 15, 30, 40, game. A set is six games with a lead of two, or a tiebreak at six all.
  • Vigoro A team sport played mainly by women in Australia, similar to cricket and baseball.

7 letters 26

  • Archery Recurve archers shoot at a 122-centimeter target face from 70 meters.
  • Biribol A water sport that resembles volleyball, invented in Brazil in the 1960s.
  • Bowling An everyday name for the pin games: see tenpin bowling (T), candlepin bowling (C), duckpin bowling (D), five-pin bowling (F), nine-pin bowling (N).
  • Bunnock A throwing game: knock down the other side's rows of bones in the fewest throws.
  • Camogie The women's form of hurling, played under nearly the same rules.
  • Cricket Eleven a side, and two batters run between wickets 22 yards apart.
  • Croquet Balls are hit through hoops with a mallet, in a set order.
  • Curling Each team slides eight stones an end toward a target called the house.
  • Cycling An everyday name for the bicycle sports: see road cycling (R), track cycling (T), mountain biking (M), cyclo-cross (C), BMX racing (B).
  • Fencing Three weapons, foil, épée and saber, each with its own target area.
  • Flyball Relay teams of dogs jump hurdles to fetch a ball from a spring-loaded box.
  • Footbag Keep a small stuffed bag in the air using only the feet.
  • Gliding Unpowered aircraft stay up by circling in rising air.
  • Hurdles Ten barriers a race, over 100, 110 or 400 meters.
  • Hurling Fifteen a side, with a wooden stick called a hurley and a small ball called a sliotar.
  • Kabaddi A lone raider crosses halfway, tags defenders and must get home without being tackled.
  • Matball Close to kickball, but the bases are larger, often gym mats.
  • Netball Seven a side, no dribbling, and no running with the ball.
  • Parkour Getting from A to B over walls, rails and gaps using only the body.
  • Reining Western riding patterns of spins, circles and sliding stops.
  • Sailing Races run around buoys, and boats follow right-of-way rules.
  • Snooker Fifteen reds, six colors and a maximum break of 147.
  • Ssireum Korean wrestling in a sand ring, each wrestler gripping the other's cloth belt.
  • Surfing Judges score each ride on the waves a surfer chooses to catch.
  • Swimrun Racers run and swim through many stages, usually without changing clothes between them.
  • Torball A team sport for blind and vision-impaired players, developed in Central Europe in the 1970s.

8 letters 42

  • Baseball Nine a side over nine innings, and three outs end a turn at bat.
  • Biathlon Cross-country skiing with rifle shooting. A miss costs a penalty loop or added time.
  • Breaking Dancers battle one on one, improvising to music chosen by the DJ.
  • Canoeing An everyday name for the paddle sports: see canoe sprint (C), canoe slalom (C), canoe polo (C), outrigger canoeing (O).
  • Capoeira An Afro-Brazilian art played inside a circle called the roda: kicks, sweeps and cartwheels to music led by the berimbau bow.
  • Climbing An everyday name for several sports: see rock climbing (R), sport climbing (S), bouldering (B), ice climbing (I).
  • Cornhole Bags tossed at a slanted board: three points in the hole, one on the board.
  • Dartball Darts are thrown at a large board laid out like a baseball field, with baseball-like scoring.
  • Downball A ball game popular in Australian schools: players take turns hitting a ball against a wall with their hands.
  • Dressage Horse and rider perform set movements from memory, scored by judges.
  • Drifting Judges score angle, line and style while the car slides sideways.
  • Duathlon Run, bike, run.
  • Eventing Dressage, cross-country and show jumping with the same horse.
  • Fistball The ball is struck over a tape with a fist or arm, and may bounce once between touches.
  • Folkrace An inexpensive, entry-level form of rallycross that comes from Finland.
  • Football A family of team sports; the name means a different one from country to country: see soccer (S), American football (A), Canadian football (C), Australian rules football (A), Gaelic football (G), flag football (F).
  • Footgolf A soccer ball kicked into an oversized cup in as few kicks as possible.
  • Goalball Teams of three in blackout eyeshades roll a ball with bells inside at the other goal.
  • Handball Seven a side indoors, throwing at a goal from outside a six-meter area.
  • Kayaking An everyday name for the sports paddled in a kayak: see canoe sprint (C), canoe slalom (C), canoe polo (C), surf kayaking (S).
  • Kickball Baseball rules with a rubber playground ball that is rolled and kicked.
  • Korfball Mixed teams of four women and four men shoot at a basket with no backboard.
  • Lacrosse Players carry, pass and shoot a rubber ball with a netted stick.
  • Marathon The distance is 42.195 kilometers, or 26 miles 385 yards.
  • Motoball Like soccer, but every player except the goalkeepers rides a motorcycle and the ball is much bigger.
  • Pétanque French boules, thrown with both feet planted inside a small circle.
  • Rallying Cars run one at a time against the clock on closed roads, with a co-driver reading pace notes.
  • Ringette Skaters pass a rubber ring with a straight stick, and the ring must be passed over each blue line.
  • Rounders A bat-and-ball game from Britain and Ireland with four bases marked by posts.
  • Roundnet Two a side hit a small ball down onto a round trampoline net.
  • Shooting A group of sports of accuracy, precision and speed: see target shooting (T), clay target shooting (C), skeet shooting (S), trap shooting (T), benchrest shooting (B).
  • Showdown A table sport for players who are blind or have a vision impairment, likened to air hockey and table tennis.
  • Skeleton Sliders lie face down and go head first.
  • Skittles An older European bowling game, usually played with nine pins.
  • Snocross Snowmobiles race on tracks of tight turns, banked corners, steep jumps and obstacles.
  • Softball A larger ball pitched underhand on a smaller diamond, over seven innings.
  • Speedway Four riders, four laps, on bikes with one gear and no brakes.
  • Swimming Four strokes are raced: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.
  • Taekkyon A traditional Korean martial art and combat sport, known for its fluid footwork.
  • Triathle A branch of modern pentathlon made up of running, swimming and shooting.
  • Tumbling A run of flips and twists down a sprung track about 25 meters long.
  • Ultimate Seven a side pass a flying disc up the field. No running with it, and players call their own fouls.

How this list was compiled: Every one-word name on our checked sports alphabet that has four, five, six, seven or eight letters: 18 of four, 23 of five, 27 of six, 26 of seven, 42 of eight. The letters are counted by machine, and an accented letter counts as one letter (Épée is four). Names with a space, a hyphen or a digit are not counted. The names come from Wikipedia's List of sports (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports), read on 2026-10-04, except Quoits and Xare, which are not on the list page and were checked in the Quoits and Basque pelota articles; each line was checked against that sport's own English Wikipedia article. Everyday shared names such as Rugby, Hockey and Skiing are rows too, and their line names the sports they cover. Licence: own work