Sports Beginning With T

One press deals a sport beginning with T, and its line says how it is played.

TetherballTwo players hit a ball that hangs on a rope from a pole, one clockwise and one the other way.

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Sports beginning with T include tennis, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and tug of war, and also trugo, torball and tejo. All 45, plus one shared name, are listed below, and the button deals one for an alphabet game.

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Track and field is one name for many events

Track and field is on the list as an everyday name, outside the count of 45. Its line points to sprinting and shot put under S, hurdles and high jump under H, long jump under L and javelin throw under J. Triple jump, a hop, a step and a jump, is the T event.

T sports named after a number

Ten-ball is pool with ten balls, tenpin bowling has ten pins and ten frames, and three-cushion billiards makes the cue ball touch the cushions at least three times. Tetrathlon has four events and triathlon three.

Questions and answers

Which sports start with T?

Table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, tenpin bowling, track cycling, trampoline gymnastics, triathlon, triple jump, tug of war and tumbling are ten. The list on this page has 35 more.

What racket sports begin with T?

Tennis and table tennis. Tennis polo and tennikoit borrow the name: tennis polo has a goalkeeper who holds a racket, and tennikoit, also called ring tennis, is played by throwing a rubber ring over a net.

What playground games are on the T list?

Tetherball, the three-legged race, tee-ball and tug of war. Tee-ball is a simplified form of baseball or softball that introduces children to bat-and-ball skills.

Which forms of cricket begin with T?

Test cricket, the most traditional format, played between international teams, and Twenty20, a shortened format in which each team bats a single innings.

All 46 sports

T 46

Table football Also called foosball: a tabletop game based on soccer, played by turning rods that carry the figures.
Table tennis Games go to 11 points, and the winner must lead by two.
Taekkyon A traditional Korean martial art and combat sport, known for its fluid footwork.
Taekwondo A Korean art that scores highest for kicks to the head and spinning kicks.
Tag rugby A non-contact game based on rugby league; every player wears a belt with two tags.
Tamburello A court game invented in the northern provinces of Italy in the 16th century.
Target shooting Rifle, pistol and shotgun events, from paper bullseye targets to clay targets in the air.
Tchoukball Score by bouncing the ball off a small rebound frame so the other team cannot catch it.
Team penning Three riders on horseback have 60 to 90 seconds to separate cattle into a pen.
Tee-ball A simplified form of baseball or softball that introduces children to bat-and-ball skills.
Tejo A traditional throwing sport from Colombia, also called turmequé.
Telemark skiing The heel is free, and turns are made in a lunge with one knee dropped.
Ten-ball A rotation pool game like nine-ball, played with ten balls.

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T, continued

Tennikoit Also called ring tennis: players throw a rubber ring over a net, and it must be caught before it lands.
Tennis Points run 15, 30, 40, game. A set is six games with a lead of two, or a tiebreak at six all.
Tennis polo Two teams of ten throw a tennis ball at a goal whose keeper holds a racket.
Tenpin bowling Ten pins, ten frames, and 300 is a perfect game.
Tent pegging A rider at the gallop spears a small ground target with a lance or sword.
Test cricket The most traditional format of cricket, played between international teams.
Tetherball Two players hit a ball that hangs on a rope from a pole, one clockwise and one the other way.
Tetrathlon A Pony Club team competition of shooting, swimming, riding and running.
Three-cushion billiards Carom billiards in which the cue ball must touch the cushions at least three times before the second ball.
Three-legged race Pairs run with the left leg of one runner strapped to the right leg of the other.
Three-sided football Soccer with three teams at once, on a pitch with six sides.
Throwball A non-contact ball sport across a net, seven a side; it was first played in India in the 1940s.
Toe wrestling Two opponents lock toes and try to pin each other's foot down, much as in arm wrestling.
Torball A team sport for blind and vision-impaired players, developed in Central Europe in the 1970s.
Touch football An amateur variant of American football: a touch on the ball carrier ends the down.
Touch rugby A touch replaces the tackle, and six touches hand the ball over.
Touring car racing Race versions of family sedans and hatchbacks on road circuits.
Tower running Races up the stairwells of tall buildings.
Track and field One sport of many contests in running, jumping and throwing: see sprinting (S), hurdles (H), relay running (R), high jump (H), long jump (L), shot put (S), javelin throw (J).
Track cycling Fixed-gear bikes with no brakes on a banked velodrome.
Tractor pulling Machines drag a weighted sled as far as they can down a dirt track.
Trail orienteering Orienteering by precise map reading: pick out the right control point among decoys.
Trail running Off-road running on footpaths, often with big climbs.
Trampoline gymnastics Ten skills in a row, scored for difficulty, form and time in the air.
Trap shooting Clay targets fly away from the shooter, all launched from a single machine.
Triathle A branch of modern pentathlon made up of running, swimming and shooting.
Triathlon Swim, bike, run, in that order, with the clock running through the changes.
Triple jump A hop, a step and a jump.
Truck racing Modified heavy tractor units race on road courses or ovals.
Trugo An Australian sport: a rubber ring is struck with a mallet so that it passes between posts.
Tug of war Teams of eight pull one rope until the mark four meters along it on the other side crosses the center line.
Tumbling A run of flips and twists down a sprung track about 25 meters long.
Twenty20 A shortened format of cricket in which each team bats a single innings.

How this list was compiled: Every sport on our checked list whose name begins with T: 45 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 27 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