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Winter Sport

A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter, usually a sport played on snow or ice.

Famous Winter sport resorts

  • Rocky Mountains
  • Alps
  • Snowy Mountains
  • Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten
  • Norway
  • Stowe, Vermont

List of winter sports

Ice skating

  • Figure skating *
  • Short-track speed skating *
  • Speed skating *
  • Synchronized skating
  • Ice sailing

Skiing

Sports in which skis are used on snow.

  • Alpine skiing *
  • Biathlon *
  • Cross country skiing *
  • Firngleiten
  • Freestyle skiing *
  • Nordic combined *
  • Skibob
  • Skijoring
  • Ski jumping *
  • Snowboarding *
  • Speed skiing
  • Telemark skiing

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.

  • Ice Blocking
  • Bobsled *
  • Luge *
  • Skeleton (aka Cresta) *
  • Sled-dog sports

Team sports

Sports that involve teams, played on ice.

  • Curling *
  • Ice hockey *

* denotes a Winter Olympic Games medal sport.

Recreational sports

Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.

  • Ice sailing
  • Tobogganing
  • Snowball fights
  • Building snowmen
  • Shinny

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Winter Sport".