Sports That Start With a D – Darts to Duckpin Bowling

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Sports that start with a D include darts, diving, dodgeball and dressage, and less known ones such as dartball and downball. All 30 are listed below with one line each, and the button deals one for an alphabet game.

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Sports starting with letter D, by kind

Five run on engines and wheels: drag racing, drifting, demolition derby, desert racing and dirt track racing, with drone racing and drag boat racing beside them. Three are for dogs and their handlers: dog agility, disc dog and dock jumping. Decathlon and discus throw come from track and field.

Two D sports inside bigger names

Double Dutch is also one of the events of competitive jump rope, which is filed under J. Duckpin bowling is one of five bowling games in the sports alphabet, where the everyday name bowling sits under B.

Questions and answers

What are some sports starting with D?

Darts, decathlon, disc golf, discus throw, diving, dodgeball, dragon boat racing, dressage, drifting and duathlon are ten. The list on this page has 20 more.

What water sports start with D?

Diving, dragon boat racing, dinghy sailing and drag boat racing. Dock jumping belongs here too, though its athletes are dogs that leap from a dock into water for distance or height.

What ball games start with a D?

Dodgeball, downball, Danish longball and Danish pin billiards. Downball is popular in Australian schools, and Danish longball is a bat-and-ball game played in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Is dancing a sport that starts with D?

Dancesport is on the list: competitive ballroom and Latin dancing, judged couple against couple. Double Dutch, the jump rope game with two long ropes turning in opposite directions, is here as well.

All 30 sports

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Dancesport Competitive ballroom and Latin dancing, judged couple against couple.
Danish longball A bat-and-ball game similar to brännboll, played in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Danish pin billiards The traditional cue sport of Denmark, also called keglebillard.
Dartball Darts are thrown at a large board laid out like a baseball field, with baseball-like scoring.
Darts A standard leg counts down from 501 and must finish on a double.
Decathlon Ten events over two days.
Deck tennis A cross between tennis and quoits, played with a rubber or rope ring on the deck of a ship.
Demolition derby Five or more drivers compete by ramming their cars into one another on purpose.
Desert racing Off-road vehicles on two or four wheels race loops of a course through the desert.
Dinghy sailing Sailing small boats, for recreation, for learning the skills and in competition.
Dirt jumping Riders take bikes over jumps shaped from dirt and fly through the air.
Dirt track racing Motor racing on banked ovals surfaced with clay or dirt.
Disc dog Dogs catch flying discs thrown by their handlers, for distance and in freestyle routines.
Disc golf Golf with a flying disc, thrown into a chain basket.

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D, continued

Discus throw Thrown from a circle 2.5 meters across.
Diving Judges score dives from a springboard or from a platform up to 10 meters high.
Dock jumping Dogs leap from a dock into water, competing for distance or height.
Dodgeball Hit an opponent with a thrown ball, or catch their throw, to put a player out.
Dog agility A handler directs a dog through jumps, tunnels and weave poles against the clock.
Double Dutch Two long ropes turn in opposite directions while one or more players jump them.
Downball A ball game popular in Australian schools: players take turns hitting a ball against a wall with their hands.
Downhill mountain biking Mountain biking on steep, rough ground with jumps, drops and rock gardens.
Drag boat racing Drag racing on water: the lowest elapsed time over a straight course wins.
Drag racing Two vehicles, a standing start and a straight strip, classically a quarter mile.
Dragon boat racing A crew of paddlers, a drummer at the front and a steerer at the back.
Dressage Horse and rider perform set movements from memory, scored by judges.
Drifting Judges score angle, line and style while the car slides sideways.
Drone racing Pilots fly small quadcopters through gates using a first-person video feed.
Duathlon Run, bike, run.
Duckpin bowling Bowling with a small ball, about five inches across, that has no finger holes.

How this list was compiled: Every sport on our checked list whose name begins with D: 30 sports. Cut from our sports alphabet, which takes its names from Wikipedia's List of sports (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports), read on 2026-10-04. 14 of the lines were checked on 2026-09-18 and 2026-09-19 for our random sport generator; the other 16 were written on 2026-10-04 from the opening of each sport's own English Wikipedia article. Blood sports with animals, games for adults, mind sports and trade-marked games are left out, as are entries whose article does not describe a sport played under rules. Licence: own work