An international rules footballmatch between Australia

 

A korfball match in the Netherlands between 'Trekvogels' and 'OZC'

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.

The most popular hybrid sport in terms of attendance and television viewers is

Active sports

B

• BASEketball - a fictional hybrid sport from the movie BASEketball

• Bossaball - a hybrid sport combining elements of volleyball, association football, gymnastics, and Capoeira

C

• 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. The sport was started when Dutch artist

• Composite rules shinty-hurling – The Irish sports of hurling or camogie Scottish sport of shinty.

• Composite rules Softball-Baseball - a hybrid bat-and-ball sports which combines the elements of Baseball and Softball

D

• Disc Golf

F

• Football tennis – a hybrid of association football, volleyball

• Footgolf - a hybrid of association football and golf

• Footvolley – a hybrid of association football and volleyball

H

• Hybrid martial arts

• Hybrid rugby - a hybrid of rugby union and rugby league.

I

• International rules football – a combination of Gaelic football and Australian rules football. The International Rules Series, an annual series of two games between representative teams from Ireland and

K

• Korfball – several claims that it was developed as a hybrid of netball and basketball to enable play between teams of mixed gender. Despite the origins of korfball, today it does facilitate exactly that purpose.

• Kronum – A hybrid of handball, soccer, basketball and rugby played on a circular field with four goals at each end.

N

• Nashball – a field sport mixing elements of soccer, fistball, basketball, ultimate frisbee, and volleyball

P

• Polocrosse - A hybrid of polo and lacrosse, played on horseback.

S

• Samoa Rules – A hybrid of

• Segway Rugpolocrosse - A field sport which combines elements of Segway polo, rugby, and lacrosse

• Slamball

W

waterpolo - A hybrid of swimming and handball

Inactive sports

• Austus – a combination of American football and Australian rules football

• Iomain - a variation of shinty-hurling, using a compromise stick, piloted once in 2013.

• Universal football

• Volata