Winter sports - Definition and Overview

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

See also team sports.

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

See also

fall sport, spring sport, summer sport, Winter Olympic Games.