Sports That Start With H

7 sports Things, colors and jobs Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 7 sports that start with H, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. They are listed below with what each one is.

Horses gallop through the H page. Horse racing, horseback riding and horseshoes all share the same first word, which makes them easy to remember, though horseshoes is really a throwing game with iron rings and a stake.

Seven sports appear in all. Hockey, handball and high jump are school-friendly picks for young children. Hurling is the surprise entry: a traditional Irish game a little like hockey, played by two teams of fifteen. It is a great answer when friends expect only the usual suspects.

Sports starting with H: 7
Best known: hockey, high jump
Longest name: horseback riding

All sports that start with H

#	Name	What it is
1	handball	a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their...
2	high jump	the act of jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar
3	hockey	a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the...
4	horse racing	the sport of racing horses
5	horseback riding	the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
6	horseshoes	a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
7	hurling	a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each

Questions people ask

How many sports start with H?

This list has 7 sports starting with H, from well-known ones like hockey, high jump, handball to rarer kinds.

What sports start with H?

Well-known examples are hockey, high jump, handball, horse racing, horseback riding.

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.

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