Sports That Start With S

S, continued

• Shinty A Scottish stick-and-ball game where the ball may be played in the air with either side of the stick.
• 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).
• Short-track speed skating Pack racing around a 111-meter track laid out on a hockey rink.
• Shot put The men's shot weighs 7.26 kilograms and the women's 4 kilograms.
• Show jumping Knocking down a rail costs four faults.
• Showdown A table sport for players who are blind or have a vision impairment, likened to air hockey and table tennis.
• Shuai jiao An ancient style of jacket wrestling from the north of China.
• Shuffleboard Discs pushed with a cue down a court into numbered scoring areas.
• Sidecar racing A rider steers while a passenger shifts their weight to balance the outfit.
• Sipa A traditional sport of the Philippines, related to sepak takraw; the name means kick.
• Sitting volleyball Played seated on a smaller court with a lower net.
• Six-man football Gridiron football with six a side, mostly at rural high schools in the United States and Canada.
• Skateboarding Street uses rails and stairs. Park uses a bowl of curved transitions.
• Skeet shooting Shotgun shooters try to break clay targets flung into the air from two fixed stations.
• Skeleton Sliders lie face down and go head first.
• Ski cross A timed skiing race over a course with big-air jumps and high-banked turns.
• Ski flying Derived from ski jumping, with much greater distances in the air.
• Ski jumping Jumpers score for distance and for style in the air and on landing.
• Ski mountaineering Racers climb on skis fitted with grip skins, carry them on steep sections, then ski down.
• Ski orienteering Orienteering on cross-country skis, an endurance race of the winter.
• Skibobbing A winter sport on a bicycle-type frame that has skis in place of wheels.
• 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).
• Skijoring A skier is pulled along by dogs, a horse or a vehicle.
• Skimboarding A small board without fins glides over wet sand and shallow water to meet a breaking wave.
• Skittles An older European bowling game, usually played with nine pins.
• Skydiving Formation skydivers build set patterns in freefall before opening their parachutes.
• Skyrunning Mountain running above 2,000 meters, on steep inclines.
• Slalom skiing Alpine skiers turn between poles or gates that are set close together.
• Sled dog racing Mushers and dog teams race over snow, from short sprints to routes of hundreds of miles.
• Slopestyle Skiers or snowboarders ride rails and jumps, scoring for amplitude, originality and quality of tricks.
• Snocross Snowmobiles race on tracks of tight turns, banked corners, steep jumps and obstacles.
• Snooker Fifteen reds, six colors and a maximum break of 147.
• Snow volleyball Three a side on a snow-covered court, with up to three touches to return the ball.
• Snowboard cross Four to six snowboarders race down a narrow course of turns, jumps and drops at the same time.
• Snowboarding Events include halfpipe, slopestyle, big air, snowboard cross and parallel giant slalom.
• Snowkiting A skier or snowboarder is pulled over snow or ice by the power of a kite.
• Snowmobile racing Sleds race on oval ice tracks or on jump-filled snow courses.
• Snowshoe running Racing in snowshoes, under a world federation founded in 2010.
• Soccer Eleven a side, and only the goalkeeper may handle the ball, inside the penalty area.
• Soft tennis Tennis on a full-size court with a hollow rubber ball that has no felt. Doubles is by far the more common game.
• Softball A larger ball pitched underhand on a smaller diamond, over seven innings.
• Speed golf Golf scored on both the strokes played and the time taken for the round.
• Speed skating Two skaters race in separate lanes around a 400-meter oval and swap lanes each lap.
• Speed skiing Skiing downhill in a straight line as fast as possible, timed over a fixed stretch of slope.
• Speedball Teams of at most five score by throwing or kicking the ball into the other goal.
• Speedway Four riders, four laps, on bikes with one gear and no brakes.
• Sport climbing Three competition disciplines: lead, bouldering and speed.
• Sport fishing Competitions are usually decided by the weight or length of the catch.
• Sport kite flying Pilots fly two-line and four-line kites through set figures and routines to music.
• Sport stacking Up to 12 plastic cups are stacked and unstacked in set patterns against the clock.
• Sporting clays Clay target shooting over 10 to 15 stations laid out on natural ground.
• Sports car racing Two-seat prototypes and GT cars, often in long-distance events.
• Sprint car racing Open-wheel cars race on short ovals of dirt or pavement.
• Sprint football A varsity sport of United States colleges, played under standard American football rules.
• Sprinting The 100, 200 and 400 meters, run in lanes from starting blocks.
• Squash Two players share a walled court and take turns hitting the front wall.
• Squash tennis An American variant of squash, with a ball and racquets closer to those of lawn tennis.
• Ssireum Korean wrestling in a sand ring, each wrestler gripping the other's cloth belt.
• Stand-up paddleboarding Standing on a large board and moving with one long paddle.
• Standing long jump Also called the standing broad jump; it was an Olympic event until 1912.
• Steeplechase A 3,000-meter race with 28 barriers and 7 water jumps.
• Stickball A street game similar to baseball, played with a broom handle and a rubber ball.
• Stock car racing Production-shaped cars racing mostly on ovals.
• Stone put A Highland games event like the shot put, usually with an ordinary stone.
• Stone skipping Throw a flat stone so that it bounces across water; the bounces are counted.
• Stoolball A striking and fielding sport from Sussex, England, at least as old as the 15th century.
• Straight pool Also called 14.1 continuous: pocket as many balls as possible without a foul.
• Street hockey A collection of team games played outdoors, on foot or on wheeled skates, with a ball or a puck.
• Streetball Pick-up basketball, usually on outdoor courts.
• Strongman Events such as the stone lift, log press, yoke carry and vehicle pull.
• Sumo A bout is lost by stepping out of the ring or touching down with anything but the soles of the feet.
• Super-G Super giant slalom: a speed event of alpine skiing, on the World Cup since the 1983 season.
• Superbike racing Motorcycle racing on highly modified production bikes.
• Supermoto Motorcycle racing on tracks that switch between packed dirt, jumps and paved road.
• Surf kayaking Surfing ocean waves in a kayak, with a paddle.
• Surf lifesaving Races built from rescue skills: swims, board paddles, beach sprints and surf boat rows.
• Surfing Judges score each ride on the waves a surfer chooses to catch.
• Swamp football Soccer played in bogs or swamps; it began in Finland in 1998.
• Swimming Four strokes are raced: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.
• Swimrun Racers run and swim through many stages, usually without changing clothes between them.
• Synchronized skating Teams of 8 to 20 skaters move in formation as one unit.