List of Racing Sports A-Z

Many racing sports have been around for centuries, with basic sports and activities like running, cycling, and swimming standing as the most commonly practiced. The main types of racing sports are categorized into animal, cycle, kids, lumberjack, motorsports, multi-discipline, remote control, walking/running, water, wheeled, and winter racing sports. The main objective of racing sports is to be the fastest to complete some form of task or course. This is typically done against a clock, or to reach a specific point or end goal. Since there are so many types of racing sports, there are many that are included in major famous competitions like the Olympics. With hundreds of racing sports available to the public, you’ve more than likely engaged in at least one at some point in time. 

Animal Racing Sports

• Barrel Racing
• Bikejoring
• Camel Racing
• Canicross
• Chariot Racing
• Chuckwagon Racing
• Combined Driving
• Cross-Country Equestrian
• Dachshund Racing
• Dog Agility
• Dogsled Racing
• Endurance Riding
• Frog Racing
• Goat Tying
• Greyhound Racing
• Harness Racing
• Horse Racing
• Pigeon Racing
• Point-To-Point
• Pole Bending
• Quarter-Horse Racing
• Scurry Driving
• Skijøring
• Terrier Racing
• Thoroughbred Racing
• Turtle Racing

Cycle Racing Sports

• Aquabike
• Cross-Country Cycling
• Cross-Country Mountain Biking
• Cycle Speedway
• Cycling
• Cyclo-Cross
• Downhill Mountain Biking
• Ice Track Cycling
• Motor-Paced Race
• Mountain Biking
• Mountain Unicycling
• Para-Cycling
• Pursuit Racing
• Road Bicycle Racing
• Six-Day Race
• Street Unicycling
• Track Cycling
• Underwater Cycling
• Unicycling Racing

Kids Racing Sports

• Cup Stacking
• Egg And Spoon Race
• Neppis
• Slot Car Racing
• Sack Race
• Speedcubing

Lumberjack Racing Sports

• Aizkolaritza
• Sawing
• Wood Chopping

Motorsports Racing

• Air Racing
• All-Terrain Vehicle Competition
• Autocross
• Autograss
• Automobile Racing
• Banger Racing
• Board Track Racing
• Car Ice Racing
• Cross-Country Rally
• Desert Racing
• Dirt Track Racing
• Drag Boat Racing
• Drag Racing
• Endurance Racing
• Enduro
• Endurocross
• F1 Powerboat Racing
• Folkrace
• Formula 1
• Formula Air Racing
• Formula Libre
• Formula Student
• Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing
• Grand Prix Racing
• Grasstrack
• Gymkhana
• Hill Climb
• Hovercraft Racing
• Hydroplane Racing
• Ice Speedway
• Indoor Enduro
• Jet Ski Racing
• Jet Sprint Boat Racing
• Kart Racing
• Kite Buggy
• Lawn Mower Racing
• Legends Car Racing
• Long Track Motorcycle Speedway
• Midget-Car Racing
• Motocross
• Motogp
• Motorboat Racing
• Motorcycle Drag Racing
• Motorcycle Grand Prix
• Motorcycle Gymkhana
• Motorcycle Racing
• Motorcycle Road Racing
• Motorcycle Sidecar Racing
• Motorcycle Speedway
• NASCAR
• Off-Road Racing
• Offshore Powerboat Racing
• Pickup Truck Racing
• Playboating
• Powerboat Racing
• Production Car Racing
• Race Of Champions
• Racewalking
• Rally Car Racing
• Rally Raid
• Rallycross
• Regularity Rally
• Road Racing
• Rokkiralli
• Short Track Motor Racing
• Snocross
• Snowmobile Racing
• Speedway Racing
• Sports Car Racing
• Sprint Car Racing
• Stock Car Racing
• Street Racing
• Supercross
• Supermoto
• Superside
• Time Attack
• Touring Car Racing
• Track Racing
• Tractor Pulling
• Truck Racing
• Tt Racing
• Vintage Racing

Multi-Discipline Racing Sports

• Adventure Racing
• Aquathlon
• Biathlon
• Cross Triathlon
• Decathlon
• Duathlon
• Heptathlon
• Icosathlon
• Indoor Triathlon
• Ironman Surf Lifesaving
• Military Pentathlon
• Modern Pentathlon
• Naval Pentathlon
• Paratriathlon
• Quadrathlon
• Tetradecathlon
• Tetrathlon
• Triathlon
• Winter Triathlon

Remote Control Racing Sports

• Drone Racing
• Model Aircraft Racing
• Model Yacht Racing
• RC Racing

Walking/Running Racing Sports

• 10K Run
• 200 Meters Sprint

• 5K Run
• Beach Flags
• Cross-Country Running
• Ekiden
• Endurance Running
• Fell Running
• Half Marathon
• Hurdling
• Long-Distance Running
• Marathon
• Middle-Distance Running
• Mountain Running
• Obstacle Course Racing
• Relay Race
• Road Running
• Skyrunning
• Snowshoe Running
• Steeplechase
• Tower Running
• Three-Legged Race
• Track And Field (Athletics)
• Trail Running
• Ultramarathon
• Wife-Carrying

Water Racing Sports

• Apnoea Finswimming
• Bifins
• Canoe Marathon
• Canoe Ocean Racing
• Canoe Slalom
• Coastal And Offshore Rowing
• Dinghy Sailing
• Dragon Boat Racing
• Extreme Canoe Slalom
• Fastnet
• Finswimming
• Gig Racing
• Immersion Finswimming
• Individual Medley
• Indoor Rowing
• Medley Relay
• Open Water Swimming
• Outrigger Canoeing
• Relay Swimming
• Rowing
• Sailing
• Sculling Rowing
• Single Scull
• Surface Finswimming
• Sweep Rowing
• Swimming
• Whitewater Kayaking
• Whitewater Rafting
• Whitewater Slalom
• Wild-Water Racing
• Windsurfing

Wheeled Racing Sports

• All-Terrain Boarding
• Grass Skiing
• Inline Speed Skating
• Land Sailing
• Land Windsurfing
• Racerunning
• Road Bowling
• Road Skating
• Roller Derby
• Street Luge
• Wheelchair Racing

Winter Racing Sports

• Alpine Skiing
• Bobsleigh
• Cross-Country Skiing
• Downhill Skiing
• Giant Slalom
• Ice Canoeing
• Ice Cross Downhill
• Ice Sledge Racing
• Luge
• Nordic Combined
• Short Track Speed Skating
• Skeleton
• Skiing
• Ski Cross
• Ski Orienteering
• Slalom Skiing
• Snowbiking
• Snowboard Cross
• Snowboarding
• Speed Skating
• Speed Skiing
• Super-G
• Telemark Skiing

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