Sports That Start With M

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Sports That Start With M

  1. Mini golfPutting only, on short holes with obstacles.
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Sports that start with M include the marathon, motocross, mountain biking and Muay Thai, along with motoball, matkot and minkey. All 29 are listed below with one line each, and the button deals one for an alphabet game.

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Mountains and motors

Five names begin with mountain, from mountain biking to mountainboarding, and five with moto: motoball, motocross and three kinds of motorcycle sport. Midget car racing and mud bogging add two more engines.

Sports that start with an M and are made for children

Mini rugby is rugby union for children, with a smaller ball and pitch. Minkey, short for mini hockey, is field hockey modified for elementary school children, and matball is close to kickball, with gym mats for bases.

Questions and answers

What are 10 sports that start with M?

Marathon, mini golf, mixed martial arts, modern pentathlon, mogul skiing, motocross, mountain biking, mountain running, mounted archery and Muay Thai. The list on this page has 19 more.

What combat sports start with M?

Mixed martial arts, Muay Thai and Mongolian wrestling. In Mongolian wrestling, known as Bökh, a wrestler who touches the ground with anything but a foot or a palm loses.

Which M sports have five events?

Modern pentathlon and military pentathlon. The modern pentathlon includes fencing, swimming and a run with laser shooting; the military pentathlon resembles it and is built on the skills of the modern military.

What is a little-known sport that starts with M?

Mallakhamba, from the Indian subcontinent, has gymnasts holding postures on an upright pole. Motoball is like soccer on motorcycles with a much bigger ball, and matkot is a paddle sport popular in Israel.

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  • Mallakhamba A traditional sport from the Indian subcontinent: gymnasts hold postures on an upright pole.
  • Marathon The distance is 42.195 kilometers, or 26 miles 385 yards.
  • Matball Close to kickball, but the bases are larger, often gym mats.
  • Match racing Two sailboats race each other head to head.
  • Matkot A paddle sport popular in Israel, similar to beach tennis.
  • Metallic silhouette shooting Shooters try to knock over steel silhouette targets set at varying distances.
  • Middle-distance running The 800 and 1,500 meters, plus the mile.
  • Midget car racing Very small cars with a very high power-to-weight ratio; they began in the United States in the 1930s.
  • Military pentathlon A five-event contest that resembles the modern pentathlon, built on the skills of the modern military.
  • Mini golf Putting only, on short holes with obstacles.
  • Mini rugby Rugby union for children, with a smaller ball and pitch and eight to ten players a side.
  • Minkey Short for mini hockey: field hockey modified for elementary school children.
  • Mixed martial arts Striking and grappling are both allowed, standing and on the ground.
  • Modern pentathlon Five disciplines in one competition, including fencing, swimming and a run with laser shooting.
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M, continued

  • Mogul skiing One timed run down a steep, bumpy course, judged on turns, aerial moves and speed.
  • Mongolian wrestling Known as Bökh: a wrestler who touches the ground with anything but a foot or a palm loses.
  • Motoball Like soccer, but every player except the goalkeepers rides a motorcycle and the ball is much bigger.
  • Motocross Off-road motorcycle racing on closed dirt circuits with jumps.
  • Motorcycle drag racing Two riders line up at a dragstrip and accelerate down a straight track of two lanes.
  • Motorcycle road racing Bikes race on paved circuits or on closed public roads.
  • Motorcycle trials Riders cross obstacles at low speed and lose marks for putting a foot down.
  • Mountain bike orienteering Orienteering on a mountain bike, with the navigation done along trails and tracks.
  • Mountain biking Cross-country, downhill and enduro are the main race formats.
  • Mountain running Running mostly off-road in mountain terrain, on courses that are clearly marked.
  • Mountain unicycling Riding a unicycle over rough ground of the kind used for mountain biking.
  • Mountainboarding An action sport derived from snowboarding, also called dirtboarding.
  • Mounted archery Archers shoot their arrows from the back of a horse.
  • Muay Thai Known as the art of eight limbs: fists, elbows, knees and shins.
  • Mud bogging Drivers take a vehicle through a pit of mud or along a muddy track of a set length.

How this list was compiled: Every sport on our checked list whose name begins with M: 29 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. 10 of the lines were checked on 2026-09-18 and 2026-09-19 for our random sport generator; the other 19 were written on 2026-10-04 from the opening of each sport's own English Wikipedia article. Match racing is not on the list page and was checked in its own 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