The Uncommon Sports You’ll Wish You Played

Skipping stones is a simple pleasure. What happens when someone wins?

Tejo: like beer pong, but with explosives.

Every Shrove Tuesday, the entire town of Ashbourne erupts in a brutal football match where almost anything goes and the rare glory of scoring a goal is savored for generations.

Chessboxing, a combination of brawn and smarts, inevitably inspires puns like rook versus hook.

As our writer cheered on his three-year-old at the Strider Cup in Texas—a merciless race replete with tears, anxiety, and elation—he had one question: Is intense competition good for the tiniest of competitors?

The annual event is filled with injuries to both humans and cheese.

Long a sport that lived primarily in kids’ backyards, Wiffle ball over the past decade has boomed for adults, too.

Ulama is a pre-Columbian team sport played with a solid rubber ball that's bounced off players’ hips. In olden times, the game is said to have decided the winners of wars.

Though it’s still early days for varsity esports, colleges are betting they can profit from their growth.

Haters gonna hate—but air guitar is a serious sport.

With archers, horses and headless goat carcasses, the World Nomad Games are an effort to revive nomadic traditions from Central Asia and around the world.

A dispatch from the Aufguss World Cup, where the goal is maximum relaxation—and maximum entertainment.

Hurling can be likened to a mash-up of lacrosse, field hockey and baseball, but in truth, it is a game all its own.

Five hours, 21 minutes, and 23 seconds. 117 laps around a track. Zero balls dropped.

Modern-day jousters are as fit as professional footballers and tennis champions, a study has found. So what does it take to master the oldest equestrian sport?