Winter sport
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A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice, but informally can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round like basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events such as luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. Other common winter sports include snow-blading, monoskiing, skwal and tobogganing.
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See also team sports.
Sports in which skis are used on snow.
- Alpine skiing *
- Biathlon *
- Cross country skiing *
- Firngleiten
- Freestyle skiing *
- Nordic combined *
- Ski archery
- Skiboarding
- Skibob
- Skijoring
- Ski jumping *
- Snowshoe
- Speed skiing
- Telemark skiing
Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.
Sports that involve teams, played on ice.
- Bandy
- Broomball
- Curling *
- Ice hockey *
- Ice stock sport
- Ringette
- Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
* denotes a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.
Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.
- Ice boating or Ice sailing
- Tobogganing
- Snowball fight
- Building snowmen
- Shinny
- Ice swimming
- Ice fishing
- Andes
- Rocky Mountains
- Alps
- Snowy Mountains
- Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten mountains
- Lapland
- Appalachian Mountains
- Carpathian Mountains
- Balkan Mountains