Precision Sports
Games decided by fine aim rather than raw athleticism: archery, shooting, darts, snooker, pool, bowling, bocce and pétanque.
35 sports in precision sports.
3D Archery
Archery at life-size foam animal targets across a wooded course — highest points for a heart-lung hit.
Air Hockey
Two-player table game invented in 1969 — players use mallets (paddles/pushers) to slide a lightweight puck across a low-friction air-cushioned table, defending their own goal and shooting into the opponent's; first to 7 goals wins.
Archery
Precision sport of shooting arrows at a target from a set distance — competitive events include recurve (Olympic), compound, barebow, and field archery.
Bocce
Ancient Italian outdoor precision ball game — teams roll/toss weighted resin balls toward a smaller target ball (pallino) on a long narrow court; closest team scores; first team to 12 or 13 wins.
Boccia
Paralympic-only precision sport — throw, kick or ramp leather balls closest to a white target (jack).
Boules
Family of French bowling sports — boule lyonnaise, boule de fort and pétanque are the main variants.
Candlepin Bowling
New England's tall thin "candle" pins — three small handheld balls per frame and no pin resetting between shots.
Carom Billiards
Umbrella family of pocketless cue sports — straight rail, balkline, 47/2, cushion carom, three-cushion.
Compound Archery
Modern high-tech archery bow with cams and cables — shot at 50 m indoors and 70 m outdoors.
Cornhole
American outdoor bag-tossing lawn game — two players/teams alternate throwing 4 fabric bags at a raised angled board with a hole, scoring 1 point per bag on board and 3 points per bag through the hole; first to 21 wins.
Croquet
Lawn sport where players use mallets to drive balls through a course of iron hoops.
Darts
Precision throwing sport in which players hurl small missiles at a segmented circular board, aiming to reduce a starting score (usually 501) to exactly zero, finishing on a double.
Disc Golf
Golf-like outdoor sport played by throwing plastic flying discs (frisbees) at metal chain baskets across an 18-hole course through forested terrain — fewest throws per hole wins, same scoring as ball golf.
Duckpin Bowling
Miniature bowling — three tiny 12 cm balls per frame at ten short, squat duckpins on a standard lane.
Eight-Ball Pool
The world's most-played pool game — sink all your solids or stripes, then pot the black 8 ball to win.
English Billiards
Cue sport on a full-size snooker table — pot balls or make cannons to score points.
Field Archery
Archery in wooded terrain — 24 targets set at unmarked distances up to 60 m across a nature course.
Five-Pin Bowling
Canada's home-grown bowling variant — five pins with different point values, smaller ball, no finger holes.
Golf
Individual precision sport played on an 18-hole course — hit a small ball from a tee into a series of cups using the fewest possible strokes.
Gorodki
Russian throwing sport — smash 15 different pin patterns out of a "town" square with heavy 80 cm wooden bats.
Lawn Bowls
Roll biased woods across a manicured lawn to finish nearest a small white "jack".
Nine-Ball Pool
Fastest of the pool variants — pot the numbered balls in order, first player to legally sink the 9 ball wins the rack.
Pétanque
French outdoor precision ball game — players throw hollow steel balls (boules) toward a small wooden target ball (cochonnet or jack) from a stationary circle; closest ball scores; first team to 13 wins.
Pool
Cue sport played on a 7-9 ft pocketed table with 15 numbered object balls and a white cue ball; primary variants are 8-Ball (stripes vs solids) and 9-Ball (lowest to highest).
Pool (Billiards)
Cue sport on a 9-foot table — 8-ball, 9-ball, 10-ball and straight-pool formats.
Practical Shooting
Timed "run-and-gun" shooting sport — negotiate stages of steel plates and cardboard targets on the clock.
Shooting Sports
Olympic precision shooting disciplines using rifles, pistols, and shotguns at stationary or moving targets — scored by proximity to bullseye (rifle/pistol) or successful clay hits (shotgun) over multiple rounds.
Skeet Shooting
Clay target shooting — clays cross in front of you from two houses at each end of a semicircle of eight stations.
Snooker
Cue sport played on a 12×6 ft green baize table with 15 red balls, 6 coloured balls, and 1 white cue ball — pot reds and colours in strict alternation to score, break of 147 is the maximum.
Sport Shooting
Marksmanship sport across rifle, pistol and shotgun disciplines at fixed distances.
Sporting Clays
"Golf with a shotgun" — walk between stations across a course firing at clays that simulate flying game birds and rabbits.
Straight Pool
Classical American pool game — one point per ball, race to a set target like 100 or 150 balls.
Ten-Pin Bowling
Precision sport in which players roll a heavy ball down a 60-foot wooden lane to knock down 10 pins arranged in a triangle at the far end, scoring across 10 frames.
Three-Cushion Billiards
Pocketless cue sport where the cue ball must hit at least three cushions before touching the second object ball.
Trap Shooting
Clay target shooting — a machine slings clays going away from you across five firing points, break as many as possible.