Sport combining two or more other sports From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hybrid sport is one which combines two or more (often similar) sports in order to create a new sport, or to allow meaningful competition between players of those sports.
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Biathlon - a hybrid sport combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Contestants ski through a cross-country trail system whose total distance is divided into either two or four shooting rounds.
Bossaball – a hybrid sport combining elements of volleyball, association football, gymnastics, and Capoeira, played on a field with three bases, there is a trampoline at the third base along with a net.[1] Allowing players to bounce high to spike or touch the ball and touch it with any part of the body, especially arms and hands
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Chess boxing – a hybrid sport which combines the sport of boxing with games of chess in alternating rounds. Chess boxing fights have been organized since early 2003.[2] The sport was started when Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by fictional descriptions of the sport in the writing of Enki Bilal, organized matches. The sport has become increasingly popular since then. To succeed players must be both skilled chess players and skilled boxers.
Composite rules softball-baseball - a hybrid bat-and-ball sports which combines the elements of baseball and softball, played on the large identical baseball diamond with the larger ball, ten rather than nine innings, and both underarm and overarm pitchings.
Cross-country BigBall - a golf-like sport where players use soccer balls and baseball bats to race to a goal.[4][5]
Hybrid martial arts – a full contact individual combat sports which allowed to use the wide range of all aspects and techniques of several different martial arts and combat sports.
QuadraSport - another hybrid of soccer, basketball, football and baseball
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Racketlon - a combination sport in which competitors play a sequence of the four most popular racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash, and tennis
Rap-7 ball – another hybrid of baseball and cricket which played under the baseball rules
Roll ball – a unique combination of roller skating, basketball and handball which played under the handball rules
Segway Rugpolocrosse - A field sport which combines elements of Segway polo, rugby, and lacrosse, played on the segway rather than horse, allowing players to run with it either in hands or in the netted racket of lacrosse stick, and contact, impede, and tackle each other with the player's body, lacrosse stick, and segway.
Slamball - a full-contact team hybrid sports which will combine elements of basketball, American football, ice hockey, acrobatics, and video games, played on the basketball court, surrounded by hockey-style plexiglass walls, with two sets of four trampolines at the front of net and boards around the edges of this court.
Dartchery - the hybrid sports combining both Darts and Archery, using bows and arrows typically used for archery but the target is the dart board. It was contested at the Paralympics since the first one until the 1980, but it has possible comeback in the future.
Iomain – a variation of shinty-hurling, using a compromise stick, piloted once in 2013
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