Sports That Start With B

8 sports Things, colors and jobs Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 8 sports that start with B, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

Ball games rule the B page. Basketball, baseball, badminton and bowling all need a ball or a shuttle, and most children will know at least two of them from school or the park. Eight sports are listed in total.

The winter outlier is bobsledding, where a team rides a sled down an icy track. Billiards is a cue sport played on a cloth table, and boat racing is the only event on water. Boxing stands apart as the single combat sport here.

Sports starting with B: 8
Best known: basketball, baseball
Longest name: bobsledding

All sports that start with B

#	Name	What it is
1	badminton	a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
2	baseball	a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
3	basketball	a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players
4	billiards	cue sport of hitting balls on a cloth table
5	boat racing	the sport of racing boats
6	bobsledding	riding on a bobsled
7	bowling	rolling a heavy ball to knock down pins
8	boxing	fighting with the fists

Questions people ask

How many sports start with B?

This list has 8 sports starting with B, from well-known ones like basketball, baseball, boxing to rarer kinds.

What sports start with B?

Well-known examples are basketball, baseball, boxing, badminton, bobsledding, billiards, bowling.

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.

See every letter on one page: sports A to Z