Winter sport
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.
List of winter sports
See also team sports. Sports with asterisks denotes that it is included in the Olympics, as accurate as the 2006 Turin Olympics.
Sports in which skis are used on snow.
Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.
Sports that involve teams, played on ice.
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Recreational sports
Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.
Famous Winter sport resort regions
See also
Winter Olympic Games.
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