Sports That Start With Every Letter
Here are sports that start with every letter from A to Z: 120 in all, with examples for each letter and a full page for every letter that has enough of them.
This A to Z covers 120 sports, but the letters are far from even. S is the giant with 23 entries, followed by T with 10 and C with 9. Most other letters have between three and eight.
A few letters are tough. N, O, Q, V and Y each have just one sport: netball, orienteering, quoits, volleyball and yachting. E, X and Z have none at all, so an alphabet sports challenge needs a house rule for those. I and U offer two each, with ice hockey and ultimate as easy picks.
- Sports listed
- 120
- Most common first letter
- S
- Letters with none
- E, X, Z
Sports by letter
| Letter | How many | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| A | 6 | archery, auto racing, athletics, angling, acrobatics |
| B | 8 | basketball, baseball, boxing, badminton, bobsledding |
| C | 9 | cricket, cycling, croquet, canoeing, curling |
| D | 5 | diving, darts, dodgeball, deck tennis, dressage |
| E | 0 | No common sports start with E |
| F | 7 | football, fishing, field hockey, figure skating, fencing |
| G | 3 | golf, gymnastics, greyhound racing |
| H | 7 | hockey, high jump, handball, horse racing, horseback riding |
| I | 2 | ice hockey, ice skating |
| J | 3 | judo, javelin, jujitsu |
| K | 5 | karate, kung fu, kabaddi, kayaking, kickboxing |
| L | 3 | lacrosse, long jump, luge |
| M | 3 | miniature golf, mountain biking, motorcycling |
| N | 1 | netball |
| O | 1 | orienteering |
| P | 7 | polo, parkour, pickleball, paintball, pallone |
| Q | 1 | quoits |
| R | 7 | running, rugby, rowing, rock climbing, roller skating |
| S | 23 | soccer, swimming, skating, skiing, surfing |
| T | 10 | tennis, taekwondo, tai chi, table tennis, triathlon |
| U | 2 | ultimate, underwater hockey |
| V | 1 | volleyball |
| W | 5 | wrestling, water-skiing, water polo, weightlifting, windsurfing |
| X | 0 | No common sports start with X |
| Y | 1 | yachting |
| Z | 0 | No common sports start with Z |
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Questions people ask
Which letter do the most sports start with?
S, with 23 on this site's list.
Are there sports for every letter?
Not in this list. No common sports start with E, X, Z.
Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.