Sports Beginning With E

E 17

• Ecua-volley A variant of volleyball invented and played in Ecuador.
• Egg-and-spoon race Racers balance an egg on a spoon all the way to the finish line.
• Eight-ball Pool with a cue ball and fifteen object balls on a six-pocket table; also called solids and stripes.
• Eight-man football Gridiron football with eight a side, often at high schools with smaller enrollments.
• Ekiden A long-distance relay race run in stages, mostly on roads; the word is Japanese.
• Elle A bat-and-ball game popular in Sri Lanka; of all sports it is most like softball.
• Endurance racing Teams of drivers share one car for races of 6, 12 or 24 hours.
• Endurance riding Horse and rider cover long marked trails, with vet checks along the way.
• Enduro Long off-road motorcycle events built from timed stages.
• English billiards A cue sport that mixes carom billiards and pool, with two cue balls and one red ball.
• Épée Fencing with the largest and heaviest of the three weapons of the sport.
• Equestrian vaulting Gymnastics on the back of a cantering horse.
• Equestrianism Horse riding as a family of sports: see dressage (D), eventing (E), show jumping (S), reining (R), endurance riding (E).
• Escala i corda The most prestigious variant of Valencian pilota, with professional players.
• Eton fives A handball game for doubles in a three-sided court, derived from the British game of fives.
• Eventing Dressage, cross-country and show jumping with the same horse.
• Extreme pogo An action sport: riders perform tricks on a pogo stick.