Sports That Start With F

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Sports That Start With F

  1. FootbagKeep a small stuffed bag in the air using only the feet.
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How it works

Sports that start with F run from fencing, field hockey and figure skating to fierljeppen, frescobol and folkrace. All 43, plus one shared name, are listed below, and the button will name a sport beginning with F for you.

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Football is one word for many sports

Football is on the list as an everyday name, outside the count of 43, because the word means a different sport from country to country. Its line points to soccer under S, American and Australian rules football under A, Canadian football under C and Gaelic football under G. Flag football is an F sport in its own right.

Field, floor and freestyle

Five names begin with field (archery, handball, hockey, lacrosse and target) and five with freestyle (football, motocross, scootering, skiing and wrestling). Floor hockey is a broad term for several indoor stick games; floorball is one sport, with light plastic sticks.

Questions and answers

What sports start with F?

Fencing, field hockey, figure skating, flag football, floorball, footgolf, formula racing, freediving, freestyle skiing and futsal are ten. The list on this page holds 43, in A to Z order.

What is a sport starting with F that is played with the feet?

Footbag, footbag net, footgolf, footvolley, football tennis and freestyle football all keep the hands out of it. Futsal and five-a-side football are soccer for five a side.

What is an unusual sport that starts with F?

Fierljeppen is Dutch: sprint to a long pole, climb it as it swings over water and land on a sand bed. Frame running is a track discipline run with a three-wheeled frame, and Finnish skittles is also called kyykkä.

Is fishing a sport that starts with F?

On this site it is filed under S, as sport fishing, where competitions are usually decided by the weight or length of the catch. Fly fishing is an angling technique and has no row of its own.

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  • Fell running Hill racing from northern England, where runners often choose their own line between checkpoints.
  • Fencing Three weapons, foil, épée and saber, each with its own target area.
  • Field archery Archers walk a course through woods and shoot at targets set at varied distances.
  • Field handball The outdoor forerunner of indoor handball, played at the Olympics once, in 1936.
  • Field hockey Eleven a side, and only the flat face of the stick may touch the ball.
  • Field lacrosse The outdoor, full-contact version of lacrosse, with ten players on each team.
  • Field target Outdoor airgun shooting at steel targets set 9 to 50 meters away.
  • Fierljeppen A Dutch sport: sprint to a long pole, climb it as it swings over water and land on a sand bed.
  • Figure skating Skaters perform a short program and a free skate, scored on jumps, spins and footwork.
  • Finnish skittles Also called kyykkä: throw wooden bats to clear skittles from a square in as few throws as possible.
  • Finswimming Swimmers race with a monofin or two fins, at the surface or underwater.
  • Fistball The ball is struck over a tape with a fist or arm, and may bounce once between touches.
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F, continued

  • Five-a-side football Soccer with four outfield players and a goalkeeper, on a smaller pitch with smaller goals.
  • Five-pin bowling A bowling variant played in Canada, devised in Toronto around 1909.
  • Fives An English handball sport for singles or doubles, in a court with three or four walls.
  • Flag football Pulling a flag from the ball carrier's belt replaces the tackle.
  • Fleet racing The most common form of sailboat racing: boats race one another over a set course.
  • Flickerball A group game with an American football, played by two teams and common in gym class.
  • Floor hockey A broad term for several indoor games in which two teams use sticks and a ball or a disk.
  • Floorball Indoor hockey with light plastic sticks and a hollow ball full of holes.
  • Flyball Relay teams of dogs jump hurdles to fetch a ball from a spring-loaded box.
  • Foil Fencing with a light, flexible weapon; a point is scored only with the tip.
  • Folkrace An inexpensive, entry-level form of rallycross that comes from Finland.
  • Footbag Keep a small stuffed bag in the air using only the feet.
  • Footbag net Players kick a footbag over a net five feet high, using only their feet.
  • 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).
  • Football tennis Also called futnet: teams of one, two or three play a soccer ball over a low net.
  • Footgolf A soccer ball kicked into an oversized cup in as few kicks as possible.
  • Footvolley Beach volleyball rules with soccer touches: no hands.
  • Formula racing Single-seat cars with the wheels outside the bodywork.
  • Four square Played on a square court split into four equal boxes; a favorite at elementary schools.
  • Frame running An adaptive track discipline: athletes run with a three-wheeled frame that has a saddle and no pedals.
  • Freediving Divers go for depth, distance or time on a single breath.
  • Freestyle football Juggling a soccer ball with any part of the body except the hands and forearms, with tricks set to music.
  • Freestyle motocross Motocross riders try to impress judges with jumps and stunts.
  • Freestyle scootering Skatepark tricks on a reinforced kick scooter.
  • Freestyle skiing Moguls, aerials, ski cross, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air.
  • Freestyle wrestling Wrestlers may use their legs and attack the opponent's legs.
  • French cricket A casual form of cricket for picnics, parks and beaches.
  • Frescobol From Brazil: players with solid rackets keep a small rubber ball going for as long as they can.
  • Frisian handball A traditional Frisian sport similar to fives, played mostly in the Dutch province of Friesland.
  • Frontenis Racquets and rubber balls in a 30-meter pelota court; it was developed in Mexico around 1900.
  • Fullbore target rifle Single-shot rifles are fired at round bullseye targets from 300 to 1,000 yards.
  • Futsal Five a side indoors, with a smaller ball that barely bounces and no walls in play.

How this list was compiled: Every sport on our checked list whose name begins with F: 43 sports and 1 everyday umbrella name that points to the sports it covers. 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. 19 of the lines were checked on 2026-09-18 and 2026-09-19 for our random sport generator; the other 25 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