* Share This

Olympic discipline table

table started by jeff for the Olympics Commons
All sports currently or formerly contested in the modern Olympic Games are included here, including those only contested as demonstration sports.... more

102 Olympic discipline topics

Add more Use Results
\^/ Plot Points: select property to plot

x

Add another type with the property you want to view.
more
   
x name x image x Also Typed With x Olympic games contested x Games contested as demonstration x article
x Archery Devizes Bowmen practice target archery at distances between 10 and 80 yards. Sport 2000 Summer Olympics  
Archery is the practice of using a bow that is drawn by hand and held, free of any mechanical device, to shoot arrows. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat and has become a precision sport. A person practicing archery is called...
1996 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
1992 Summer Olympics
more
x Baseball A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. Louis, Missouri Sport 2000 Summer Olympics  
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot...
Computer Game Genre 1996 Summer Olympics
Type/domain equivalent topic 2004 Summer Olympics
Film genre 1992 Summer Olympics
Art Subject
more
x Basketball Michael Jordan is considered by many to be the best to ever play the game of basketball. Sport 1936 Summer Olympics  
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and...
Computer Game Genre 1948 Summer Olympics
Type/domain equivalent topic 2000 Summer Olympics
Broadcast Genre 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic event competition 1976 Summer Olympics
more more
x Badminton The Danish Olympic badminton player Peter Gade Sport 2000 Summer Olympics  
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with...
1996 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
1992 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
x Boxing Boxing is a traditional Western combat sport. Film subject 1936 Summer Olympics  
Boxing (sometimes also known as Western boxing or pugilism) is a combat sport in which two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of...
Sport 1948 Summer Olympics
Computer Game Genre 2000 Summer Olympics
Film genre 1996 Summer Olympics
TV Genre 1976 Summer Olympics
more more
x Biathlon Several biathletes in the shooting area of a competition Sport 2002 Winter Olympics  
Biathlon (not to be confused with duathlon) is a term used to describe any sporting event made up of two disciplines. However, biathlon usually refers specifically to the winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Another...
1924 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
1998 Winter Olympics
1994 Winter Olympics
more
x Croquet Winslow_Homer Croquet Scene 1864 Sport 1900 Summer Olympics  
Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena. Croquet was an event at the 1900 Summer Olympics and...
x Curling 2005 Tim Hortons Brier Sport 2002 Winter Olympics  
Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice. Teams take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones down the ice towards the target ...
Olympic event 1924 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
1998 Winter Olympics
x Cross-country skiing   Sport 2002 Winter Olympics  
Cross-country skiing (also known as XC skiing) is a winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe, Canada and Alaska. The popularity of the sport has been quickly growing in the United States and in...
Club interest 1948 Winter Olympics
1928 Winter Olympics
1924 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
more
x Diving Diving off a springboard Sport 1936 Summer Olympics  
Diving refers to the sport of performing acrobatics while jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard of a certain height. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured...
Tourist attraction 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic event competition 2000 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
more
x Football Football match.jpg Sport 1936 Summer Olympics  
Football (also known as association football or soccer) is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each. It is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world. A ball game, it is played on a rectangular grass field, or...
Computer Game Genre 1948 Summer Olympics
Profession 2000 Summer Olympics
Type/domain equivalent topic 1996 Summer Olympics
Website Category 1976 Summer Olympics
more more
x Field hockey A game of field hockey in progress Sport    
Field hockey is a team sport in which a team of players attempt to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking the ball with hockey sticks into the opposing team's goal. Its official name is simply hockey, and this is the common name for it in many...
School sports team
Sports Team
Olympic event competition
x Fencing 1900 Olympic Games Official Postcard Paris Sport 1936 Summer Olympics  
Fencing is the art of armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping bludgeoning weapons directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned, of European origin. Examples include swords, knives, pikes, bayonets, batons, clubs...
Book Subject 1948 Summer Olympics
Martial Art 1896 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
more
x Figure skating Figure skaters Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov Film subject 2002 Winter Olympics  
Figure skating is an athletic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level (senior), and...
Sport 1948 Winter Olympics
Computer Game Genre 1928 Winter Olympics
Profession 1924 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
more
x Golf Greg Norman on the 18th tee at St Andrews Sport 1900 Summer Olympics  
Golf is a sport in which a player, using many types of clubs including a driver, a putter, and irons, hits a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a...
Computer Game Genre 1904 Summer Olympics
Quotation Subject
Tourist attraction
School sports team
more
x Gymnastics Sport    
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération Internationale de...
Character Power
x Team handball Sport 1936 Summer Olympics  
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball to throw it into the goal of the opposing team. The team...
2000 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
more
x Ice Hockey Game between (East-)Berlin "Eisbären" and (West-)Berlin "Capitals" in 1997 Sport 2002 Winter Olympics  
Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover like Canada, Northern United...
Computer Game Genre 1948 Winter Olympics
Profession 1928 Winter Olympics
Broadcast Genre 1924 Winter Olympics
School sports team 2006 Winter Olympics
more more
x Judo Sport 2000 Summer Olympics  
Judo (柔道, jūdō), meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either...
Martial Art 1996 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
1992 Summer Olympics
more
x Lacrosse The "Dive Shot" Sport 1908 Summer Olympics  
Lacrosse is a full contact team sport played using a solid rubber ball and long handled racket called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the crosse has a loose net strung into it that allows the player to hold the lacrosse ball. Offensively the...
School sports team 1904 Summer Olympics
Sports Team
x Polo A game of polo Sport 1936 Summer Olympics